IT Project Manager

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Project Delivery Manager to support the successful delivery of technology projects within a banking environment. The role involves end-to-end project coordination, governance, stakeholder management, risk tracking, and ensuring project deliverables are completed on time, within scope, budget, and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery Support

• Manage project activities from initiation through closure, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements and quality standards.
• Develop, maintain, and track project plans, schedules, milestones, and resource allocation.
• Monitor project progress and ensure timely delivery within agreed timelines and budgets.
• Prepare Steering Committee (SteerCo) presentations, reports, and meeting materials.
• Review and document meeting minutes, ensuring actions and decisions are tracked to closure.
• Coordinate project activities across platform, infrastructure, system delivery, and release management teams.

Process, Governance & Methodology

• Ensure adherence to project delivery methodologies, governance frameworks, and control processes.
• Monitor project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies and drive mitigation plans.
• Maintain project risk, issue, and dependency registers.
• Work closely with the Bank's Project Manager to manage overall project plans and delivery schedules.
• Ensure project deliverables are clearly defined, understood, and tracked across all workstreams.
• Provide regular project status updates, risk assessments, issue escalations, and progress reports to stakeholders.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with Bank Project Managers, IT teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and external partners.
• Facilitate effective communication across project teams to ensure alignment on scope, timelines, and deliverables.
• Escalate critical risks and issues proactively and drive resolution.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Additional Responsibilities

• Support project audits, governance reviews, and compliance activities.
• Assist with project documentation, reporting, and other project-related tasks assigned by the Bank Project Manager.
• Contribute to project planning, execution, monitoring, and closure activities.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Project Management, PMO, Project Delivery, or Project Coordination.
• Experience managing technology projects within Banking, Financial Services, or regulated industries is preferred.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, governance, and delivery frameworks.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Japanese language proficiency (JLPT N2 or JLPT N1 preferred).
• Ability to communicate with Japanese stakeholders and support cross-border project coordination.
• PMP, Prince2, Agile, Scrum, or related certifications are advantageous

Preferred Skills

• Banking or Financial Services domain experience.
• Familiarity with SDLC, Infrastructure Delivery, Release Management, and Technology Implementations.
• Experience with project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Office Suite.
• PMP, Prince2, Agile, Scrum, or related project management certifications are an advantage.