Senior Project Manager
- Recruiter
- Société Générale
- Location
- Hong Kong
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 24 Jun 2018
- Closes
- 27 Jun 2018
- Ref
- 3479465
- Sector
- IT/Telecoms
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Experience level
- Manager
Environment
Societe Generale is one of the leading financial services groups in Europe. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial solidity and a strategy of sustainable growth.
Senior Project Manager within Société Générale - DFIN / DTO / ASIA (Finance project team for Asiapac)
- Finance processes knowledge with Project functional background on Front to Accounting processes ahead with IT functional architecture, Accounting norms and standards (IFRS, local GAAP is a plus), Regulatory Reporting processes and Tax
- Understanding of new Digital Technologies
- Liquidity and Scarce Resources Management will be a plus
Our interventions (studies, projects) within DFIN cover in particular:
- The definition and management of the transformation trajectory
- Improving operational efficiency
- Securing our processes
- Promoting innovation and developing new managerial practices
- Knowledge development
- Accelerating the integration of new technologies
Mission
Main Mission
Steer the Finance Transformation
The Senior Project Manager is in charge of:
- Defining & leading strategic projects roadmap orientations
- Steering budget with sponsors and ensure budget execution
- Challenging IT program orientations/roadmaps / costs (critical view out of project framework) based on expertise, 360 degrees' perspective of operational processes and ongoing evolutions
The Senior Project Manager is also in charge of:
- Contributing to the strategy of the Operating Model (IS Strategy for example) and contributing to the Functional architecture review
- Ensuring and proposing solution to handle the alignment of the global Finance processes in Asia to the Global Operating Model
- Providing support to the operational teams for any re-organization or optimization of the Operating Model
The Senior Project Manager is in charge of:
- Identifying the opportunity of improvement
- Proposing new way of thinking
- Promoting Digital Transformation & Innovation
- Driving the functional changes such as process improvements or any project not involving IT.
Main Responsibilities
- Monitor the DFIN / DTO roadmap delivery for a grouping of different projects or studies
- Support and coach DFIN / DTO resources working for the projects: ensure delivery with good quality, on time & on budget of all underlying projects, anticipate roadblocks & capacity of execution issues
- Define, structure and monitor the project portfolio and their roadmap for the Finance scope
- Demonstrate deep understanding on the topics, become a functional trusted partner of the sponsors
- Raise alerts on time, effectively communicate to senior stakeholder's cross departments, represent FINANCE APAC in the Regional/Global organization
- Implement the roles and behaviours reinforcing the dialogue with team and partners (WW)
- Follow up needs in terms of budget prioritization & digital transformation
Contribute to the delivery of the transformation roadmap on his/her scope within budget and timeframe and at the level of quality required by
- Leading studies and projects or
- Contributing as DTO to projects led by other departments (IT team for IS transformation project, Operations or Front Office departments when they have the sponsorship, head office for global project)
- Ensure Project governance is in place and communicated effectively. Represent Asia as the main point of contacts for DFIN / DTO Paris when relevant
- Build the business case to seek funding prior to the launch of a project
- Ensure Target Operating Model is in line with global/regional standard taking local specifics into account
- Identify the opportunity of improvement and propose new initiatives, promote new way of thinking, innovation
- Manage Project life-cycle including critical path and mile-stone tracking, identification and management of constraints and dependencies, scopechange, resource allocation and budget, and contingency planning.
- Overcome problems and find solutions to deliver the roadmap. Escalate any key issues, alerts or risk on due time to the management
- Review and pro-active challenge solution and project deliverables to ensure adherence to quality standards
- When applicable, understand the Test strategy design and preparation under the Project manager accountability
- Develop, maintain and regularly communicate a full-scope Project status report with the key stakeholders of her / his project
- Organize and Lead projects working groups with different stakeholders imply in the project
- Accompany the production team in the Change Management
- Conducting Post-implementation reviews and pro-actively refining the department's offer and approach to satisfy Finance Management and client departments
Profile
Academic Background
- Engineer degree, Msc, MBA, Bsc / Ba, CPA/CA, CFA, FRM would be a plus
Technical Skills
- Project Management skills, Accounting norms and standards (IFRS, local GAAP is a plus), products accounting knowledge, regulatory reporting processes, process re-engineering
- Corporate & Investment Banking (Advisory, Financing and Global Markets) knowledge - Global Transaction Banking is a plu
- Liquidity and Scarce Resources Management as well as Product control is a plus
- Office pack, internal IT architecture (FO to regulatory reporting)
- Ability to drive the change
- Strong interpersonal skills - Team player, approachable and team oriented - Coordination skills across different departments, countries and regions
- Ability to analyze / handle complex issues (strong analytical sense)
- Ability to step back and adopt varied points of view to obtain a precise and comprehensive understanding of topics; end to end processes
- Ability to prepare decisions and if necessary support them at different levels of hierarchy (Capacity of synthesis, presentation and writing) -
- Ability to give a synthetic overview (good oral & written communication)
- Solution-focused, business-oriented and proactive
- Adaptability, Autonomy
- Have a strong risk culture and reliable professional conduct
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