About the Job
The candidate is required to lead, manage and drive initiatives relating to the Financial Data Warehouse and related Data Marts, and extend BAU support for on-going or new implementation.
- Manage the BAU support for Data Warehouse across all regional entities
- Ensure alignment of project deliverables with overall IT Strategy
- Drives project workshop sessions and discussions to translate all business requirements into actionable technology deliverables for project and BAU.
- Enforce compliance of project deliveries to comply with applicable policies, governance, standards, control and regulatory expectations/requirements
- Build partnership and collaboration between BU, Technology and vendors to achieve synergy during implementation
- Drive continuous improvement and employee satisfaction of Finance applications post Project Go-Live
- Drive issue and defects managements and resolution across IT, users and vendors
- Manage multiple deliverables concurrently to different business group while fostering strong users and customer relationship
- Manage relationship with vendor, users, and internal IT teams to manage issues and enhancements
- Work with key stakeholders to proactively shape the organisation's culture and conduct environment that is aligned to the organization's Core Values
- Lead and manage a team of Data Mappers, Business Analyst and Data Engineers to meet business requirements, functions, performance, and governance
- Champion culture and conduct behavioural expectations within the Department/Division.
- Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
- Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
- Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.
We are looking for people who
- Tertiary education required
- A team player who never takes no for an answer
- Minimum 10 years of project management or delivery experience from finance industry, with at least one key project in data warehouse for Finance
- > 5 years Data Warehousing experience or working experience on Big Data platform, data integration, transformation, management and governance
- Related Big Data certifications such as Data Engineer, Data Analyst, Data Modeler, Data Architect, Data Administrator and Data Security Analyst will be an advantage
- Working knowledge of Hortonworks data platform for data ingestions frameworks from multiple source systems e.g. AS400, Oracle Finance, MS SQL, etc.
- Experience using Java, PL/SQL, SQL, Python, Scala with good knowledge of data models and data flows with strong understanding of dimensional and relational databases, including stored procedures, constraints, normalization, indexes, and security
- Passionate on driving changes and proven ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines whilst maintaining accuracy, and with a can-do attitude
- A fast thinker who remains agile, adaptive and savy when under stress
- Certification or formal training in project management is an advantage
- Self-starter and fast learner with excellent leadership and team building skills
- Have domain knowledge of financial and insurance reporting will be an advantage
- General knowledge of business processes, data flows, risk management and compliance
- Possess strong planning, communication, negotiation and presentation skills
- Demonstrates alignment with the organisation's core values through expected behaviours.
How you succeed
- Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
- Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
- Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
- Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
- Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.
Who we are
Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.
The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of AA- by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.
Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world's most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody's and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World's Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.
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