Expert, Solution Development

Job Purpose

The job holder is responsible for delivering efficient and optimal implementation and operation of Technical platforms for Division.

He/she will collaborate with various stakeholder groups and partners and lead the deliver of targets through expertise, experience, working with senior stakeholders to ensure successful execution on every phase of the project/initiative's life cycle.

Key Accountabilities

Strategic Planning:

• Help develop and execute Finance's transformation strategy aligned with the company's financial goals and objectives.

• Collaborate with cross function teams to identify opportunities for process optimization and innovation.

• Assess risks associated with transformation initiatives and develop mitigation strategies to ensure minimal disruption to financial operations.

Change Management:

• Help plan and build allocated change management process, help with organizational adoption of new financial processes, systems, and technologies

Process Improvement:

• Help evaluate current financial processes, data and systems within FSM and Finance where possible, identifying areas for improvement and efficiency gains.

• Help build solution to solve for identified inefficiencies in existing financial processes and implement improvements to enhance operational effectiveness and efficiency.

Technology Integration:

• Act as expert and collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new financial technologies and systems, align with business objectives.

• Act as expert to help Head of FSM with the selection, implementation, and integration of finance-related technologies, such as ERP systems and financial analytics tools

Stakeholder Management:

• Engage with key stakeholders across Functions (and Divisions where relevant), providing regular updates and gaining buy-in for transformation initiatives.

• Analyze stakeholder goals and effectively manage their expectations, addressing any misalignment

Train and encourage culture of transformation:

• Champion transformation by introducing best practices from successful market players, thought leadership and create an environment where teams can collaborate well

• Help deliver technology use cases, onboard suitable platforms for internal adoption

Domain Expertise

- 4 to 8 years of project and program management experience in a banking or financial technology organization

- Experienced in senior stakeholder management, direct working with Director or equivalent in previous job assignments

- Experienced in Natural Language Processing (NLP), computer vision, or AI Engineering & Application.

- Experience in driving adoption and execution of data analytics and emerging technologies (including but not limited to AI/ML use cases).

- Demonstrated proficiency in modern analytics, reporting and visualization solutions (such as PowerBI, Python)

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences.

- Strong knowledge of banking markets, products, processes and operations

- Knowledge of MLOps practices and open-source contributions will be advantageous

- Familiarity with cloud services (e.g. AWS) and CI/CD pipelines will be advantageous

Qualifications

- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Systems, Data Analytics or related field

- Experienced with or possess Project Management Professional Certificate (PMP / Prince 2 / Agile) will be advantageous

- Experienced with or possess advanced Data Professional Certificate (Engineering, Architect or Analyst/Scientist) will be advantageous

- Experienced with or possess advanced IT management Certificate practices (ITIL / COBIT) will be advantageous