Senior Program Manager

NOVEL SUNKRIS BUSINESS SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD.

Job Background:

This is a Senior Program Manager role to support a MNC bank's Project Anchor, which is migration of IPB business from one legal entity to another.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Program Oversight & Strategic Coordination: Lead end-to-end program planning across all Anchor workstreams, ensuring alignment of milestones, dependencies, and resource allocation; act as the primary escalation point for cross-functional issues and senior stakeholder management.
  • Regulatory & Governance Leadership: Own the regulatory engagement framework, oversee submission timelines, and chair governance forums (SteerCo, Working Groups), ensuring all decisions are documented, tracked, and actioned in line with policy and compliance requirements.
  • BAU Continuity & Risk Management: Drive operational resilience by embedding BAU controls within program delivery, proactively identifying risks, issues, and interdependencies, and maintaining program-level RAID logs with timely remediation plans.

Experience:

  • Essential: Project Management/Business Analyst with experience of 10+ years.
  • Desirable: Project Management Officer who has M&A transaction experience in his/her previous roles.

Competencies:

  • Candidate should have prior experience of engaging with C suite.

Must Have Skills:

  • Program & Project Management: End-to-end Program Management
  • Governance & Regulatory: Regulatory Engagement & Compliance Management; Governance Frameworks & Steering Committee Management.
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Risk & Operational Management: Risk, Issue, Assumption & Dependency (RAID)Management; Change Management.
  • Banking Domain Knowledge

Preferred Tools & Methodologies:

  • Agile / Hybrid Project Delivery
  • JIRA, Confluence, MS Project
  • Governance Reporting & Dashboarding
  • RAID Logs, Project Plans, Status Reporting

The work location is CBP.