Associate, Platform Management, Global Financial Markets Technology, Group Technology

Business Function

Group Technology enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group Technology, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.

Responsibilities

Portfolio Governance & Strategic Oversight

• Drive governance across GFMT technology portfolios, ensuring effective delivery, prioritization, and alignment of strategic initiatives and platform roadmaps
• Lead Platform Governance Board (PGB) reviews, executive reporting, scorecard management, and performance tracking across multiple technology domains
• Provide executive oversight of project health, delivery milestones and investment outcomes across strategic programs                                                                                                                                    

Financial Management & Investment Governance

• Partner stakeholders on budget planning, actual Investment and PnL tracking, forecast reviews, and financial governance activities
• Review business cases and participate in funding approval processes
• Oversee technology ownership cost management, depreciation planning, software licensing reviews, and financial optimization
• Engage overseas approvers on inter-company billing and cost allocation processes, ensuring transparency, accuracy, and stakeholder alignment
• Manage the end-to-end budget management process for the Global Financial Markets Technology department, including forecasting and variance analysis

Murex Access & restricted Governance

• Enforcing strict operational security by maintaining a clear access trail for the login/logout timestamps, along with before and after screenshots of the changes done in Murex system. 
• Performs meticulous, line-by-line validation of incoming Murex requests against baseline System Owner authorisations, ensuring the requested work aligns with what was approved, or sending back any mismatched / non-conforming requests for re-approval.
• Exercises high-agility task switching to attend to high-priority, urgent Murex requests immediately, ensuring minimal delays and efficient support for all requesters, delivering zero-delay execution.

Executive Stakeholder Management

• Identify and implement process improvements in financial tracking, reporting automation, and data reconciliation.
• Serve as a key liaison between technology leadership, finance, risk, and business stakeholders to drive decision-making and delivery outcomes
• Prepare executive-level presentations, management updates, scorecards, and governance materials for senior leadership review
• Executive assistant to GFMT Head of Department and department workplace and welfare champion

Requirements

• Comprehensive understanding on legacy Murex Production environment
• Ability to accelerate adoption, seamlessly manage and navigating the newly released Murex Upgrade
• Capability to instantly identify and reject out-of-scope submissions, filtering out requests that fall outside the team's operational c
• Competent use in DBS inhouse system Genesis and understanding of Platform Standards
• Accounting knowledge on budget, project investment and financial status (Investment, P&L)
• Knowledge on software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Experience with project management office function and attention to details
• Solid hand-on experience in spreadsheet and PowerPoint processing and other Microsoft office applications for tracking and reporting
• General knowledge of procurement/contract

Location:

DBS Asia Central

Job:

COO Office/Business Mgt & Support

Schedule:

Regular

Employee Status:

Full time