Project Manager, Cards, 6-month renewable contract (Banking)

Dear Applicant,

If you or someone you know isinterested, please send the CV directly to [email protected] (mostpreferred, as I may overlook some CVs due to the high volume).

Please note that visasponsorship is not available at this time.

JD

Key Responsibilities:

Card Compliance & Regulatory Management

• Lead delivery of card compliance initiatives driven by card schemes (Visa, Mastercard, AMEX, JCB, CUP), regulators, and internal risk mandates.
• Ensure timely assessment, planning, and execution of scheme bulletins, regulatory mandates, and compliance remediation items.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory and industry standards (e.g. MAS, PCI DSS, scheme rules).

Stakeholder & Communication Management

• Lead end‑to‑end engagement across business, technology, and vendor partners, covering planning, governance, communications, budgeting, resource alignment, and change management.
• Manage stakeholder expectations through structured governance forums and transparent communication.
• Deliver clear, concise, and effective executive‑level updates on project milestones, risks, dependencies, and delivery progress.
• Provide comprehensive status reporting across GTO and business leadership, ensuring alignment of deliverables and timelines.

Process, Analysis & Delivery Execution

• Act as primary project point‑of‑contact for risk, compliance, and audit engagements, including internal audit, technology risk, and external reviews.
• Ensure all compliance deliverables are well‑documented, traceable, and audit‑ready.
• Drive end‑to‑end delivery of complex, multi‑business‑line initiatives in alignment with strategic objectives and UOB SDLC and stage‑gate standards.
• Own the full project lifecycle (Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid), including planning, governance, execution, and tracking against time, scope, and budget.
• Prepare detailed project plan for all phases of the project.
• Coordinate across business, operations, and technology teams to manage dependencies, risks, issues, and scope changes effectively.
• Maintain high‑quality delivery through disciplined tracking of progress and upkeep of RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) artifacts.
• Govern change and release activities through appropriate forums (Monthly review with business stakeholder, PSC), ensuring compliance, risk sign‑offs, and operational readiness prior to production deployment.
• Understand interdependencies between technology, operations and business needs.
• Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.