IT Project Manager

Preferred Qualification:

• JLPT N2 or N1 certification (preferred)
• Experience in IT project coordination, project management support, or PMO functions
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience working with banking or financial services projects is an advantage

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery & Coordination

• Support end-to-end project delivery from initiation through closure, ensuring adherence to business requirements, timelines, quality standards, and budget.
• Develop, maintain, and track project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and resource allocation.
• Coordinate with project teams to ensure deliverables are clearly defined, understood, and completed as planned.
• Provide regular project status updates, highlighting progress, risks, issues, and escalation items.

Governance, Risk & Issue Management

• Ensure compliance with project delivery methodologies, governance frameworks, and control processes.
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Develop and track mitigation plans to minimize project impacts.
• Maintain project risk, dependency, and issue registers through resolution.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with Bank IT Project Managers, business stakeholders, regional and headquarters teams, vendors, and technology teams to ensure alignment on project objectives and timelines.
• Facilitate effective communication across cross-functional teams.
• Escalate critical issues and support decision-making through timely reporting and analysis.

Steering Committee Support

• Prepare Steering Committee (SteCo) materials, presentations, and meeting documentation.
• Track action items, comments, and decisions from SteCo meetings.
• Follow up with stakeholders to ensure timely closure of agreed actions.

Project Planning & Reporting

• Work closely with the Bank's Project Manager on overall project planning from platform, infrastructure, system delivery, and release management perspectives.
• Ensure project deliverables, milestones, and timelines are communicated and tracked effectively.
• Prepare project dashboards, status reports, and management updates.

Additional Responsibilities

• Support other project-related activities assigned by the Bank Project Manager in line with project requirements and resource capabilities.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project delivery processes and best practices.