IT Project Manager (Japanese Speaking)

Proficiency in Japanese Speaking Mandatory Project Delivery Support • Run project from initiation to closure, ensuring deliverables meet business requirements and quality standards • Develop and track project plans, schedules, and resource allocation • Ensure successful delivery of projects, ensuring they are completed on time, meeting requirements and within allocated budget • Prepare Steering Committee materials and review minutes of the meeting. • Follow up on actions and comments from Steco to ensure they are timely acted upon to closure Process and Methodology • Ensure adherence to delivery methodologies, governance, and control processes • Monitor progress, manage risks and issues, and implement mitigation strategies • Work with the Project Manager (bank’s side) on the overall project plan from the platform, infra team and system delivery & release perspective • Ensure that the list of deliverables are defined and understood within the various system delivery • Provide timely update to the Bank’s PM on the system delivery progress status, risk, issues and escalation • Analyse and highlight project risks and develop necessary risk mitigation plans • Analyse and highlight project dependencies to pre-empt project issues • Maintain project issue register to keep close match of the project issues till their resolution Stakeholder Coordination • Collaborate with Bank’s IT Project Manager, SMBC and JRI HO PICs, APAC IT and JRIS PICs and HO project team and vendors to ensure alignment on project scope and timelines • Provide detailed project insights, timely status reporting and escalate issues when necessary • Facilitate effective communication and foster a culture of collaboration, transparency, and accountability, ensuring strong cross functional teamwork and alignment to project goals and objectives Other related Project tasks • Support other project related tasks that may be assigned from Bank Project PM, in line with the resource skills