Project Lead (Murex)
Project description
Client is leading global financial institution with a strong presence in Asia, Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. In the Asia-Pacific region, the Client operates key hubs in Singapore and Hong Kong, providing comprehensive financial services across corporate banking, markets, treasury, and risk management. Client is committed to leveraging advanced technology platforms to deliver innovative solutions, enhance operational efficiency, and maintain robust risk governance. As part of this commitment, the Group invests in industry-leading systems such as Murex to support end-to-end trade processing, risk analytics, and regulatory compliance across multiple asset classes. Client has embarked on strategic initiative to consolidate it's Banking and Investment Banking arm into one. Towards that end it is hiring project manager to drive this consolidation exercise leading to: - Accelerated delivery of strategic platform programs, minimizing risk and downtime. - Improved cross-team collaboration and decision-making across geographies and functions. - Ensure Murex enhancements meet business, risk, and compliance requirements in a complex regulatory environment. - Support of scalable, efficient operations that position the Client for future growth.
Responsibilities
- The Markets Program Manager is responsible for providing domain-level governance, delivery oversight, and cross-functional coordination across the Markets functional landscape (Front Office, Back Office, Risk, and Finance) within the country. This role involves driving alignment across these domains, actively managing interdependencies to ensure delivery remains cohesive and on track with program objectives. It also requires providing programme governance support through structured status reporting, progress transparency, forward-looking risk insights to the Country Program Manager, and Release Delivery Lead enabling effective oversight and informed decision-making. 1. End-to-end Delivery Owner
- Provide end-to-end delivery oversight of the Markets domain across Front Office, Back Office, Risk, and Finance, ensuring alignment with the country delivery roadmap and regional milestones
- Define scope, plan, milestones and deliverables for Markets domain
- Maintain the Markets domain schedule alignment with release timelines 2. Cross Functional Coordination
- Drive alignment across Markets domain to ensure cohesive planning and execution
- Identify, track, and manage interdependencies, sequencing, and cross-functional impacts within Markets domain
- Facilitate resolution of delivery conflicts, overlaps, or gaps across Markets domain
- Ensure clarity of roles, responsibilities, and handoffs across the Markets delivery lifecycle 3. Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
- Consolidate Markets-related risks and issues at country level and ensure proactive mitigation planning
- Ensure early identification of cross-functional impacts and readiness risks
- Lead structured escalation of material delivery concerns through governance channels 4. Reporting & Governance Support
- Support the Country Program Manager in the bi-monthly Country Program Steering Committee (PSC), representing Markets delivery status, key risks, and dependency impacts as required
- Provide structured Markets reporting, progress transparency, and forward-looking risk insights
- Coordinate with country vendors supporting Markets scope to ensure alignment on timelines, issue resolution, and readiness expectations, if require
SKILLS
Must have
- 10-13+ years of experience with proven influence and track record in large-scale banking transformations
- Strong Murex FO or BO domain knowledge and experience
- Experienced with Murex systems to support end-to-end trade processing, risk analytics, and regulatory compliance across multiple asset classes
- Has deep understanding of local nuances and is willing to be dedicated to a country for active on-site participation
- Experience managing senior stakeholders
Nice to have
Knowledge of Markets processes across Front Office, Back Office, Risk, Finance
