Senior Executive, Project (Product Open Finance)
Senior Executive, Project (Product Open Finance)
paynet (payments network malaysia)3-5 Years
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Job Description
Why PayNet / Why Now
- National payments infrastructure with direct influence on Malaysia's digital financial future
- Open Finance is moving from concept to implementation, requiring coordinated execution across multiple stakeholders, institutions, and workstreams
- Increasing complexity, governance requirements, and delivery expectations demand stronger programme discipline and execution visibility
- Programme leaders need reliable delivery intelligence to make timely decisions and remove obstacles before they impact outcomes
- A role for someone who enjoys bringing structure, momentum, and accountability to complex programmes
- Own the operational heartbeat of strategic Open Finance programmes
- Keep multiple workstreams aligned, accountable, and moving forward
- Turn programme complexity into clear reporting, governance, and actionable insights
- Work closely with senior stakeholders across business, technology, operations, and industry participants
- High-exposure role supporting initiatives that shape Malaysia's digital financial ecosystem
- Open Finance initiatives involve multiple stakeholders, interconnected workstreams, evolving requirements, and significant delivery dependencies.
- This role ensures programmes stay coordinated, visible, and under control by providing the structure, governance, and delivery discipline required to execute at scale.
- You will be the person who keeps programme leaders informed, risks visible, actions progressing, and stakeholders aligned.
- This is a role where organisation, judgement, and proactive follow-through matter just as much as technical project management skills.
- Maintain integrated programme plans, milestones, deliverables, and dashboards, while proactively following up with workstream owners to address delays and delivery gaps.
- Coordinate programme governance activities and key cadences, prepare clear and timely status reports, track decisions and actions, and ensure key matters are surfaced for management attention.
- Identify, maintain, and analyse programme risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring mitigation and recovery actions are assigned, monitored, and escalated where necessary.
- Coordinate across business, technology, operations, vendors, and external stakeholders to maintain alignment, resolve delivery bottlenecks, and drive closure of programme commitments.
- Maintain accurate programme artefacts, repositories, decision logs, and governance documentation, while supporting consistent adherence to programme standards and ways of working.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in PMO, project coordination, programme management, or a related role within a complex organisational environment..
- Strong organisational, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and coordinate several workstreams simultaneously.
- Demonstrated experience in programme reporting, milestone tracking, governance coordination, and the management of risks, issues, actions, and dependencies.
- Proficiency in project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint, with the ability to produce clear and management-ready reporting
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation, technology, fintech, payments, or financial services programmes.
- Experience working across business, technology, operations, risk, compliance, and external delivery partners.
- Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Ability to analyse programme information, identify emerging delivery trends, and recommend appropriate follow-up actions.
- Exposure to regulatory, governance, or industry-wide initiatives involving multiple organisations and stakeholders.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent project or programme management certification.
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Key Skills
hybrid delivery methodologies
governance coordination
programme reporting



