Director, Project Management Office

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

Job Responsibilities

• Define the strategic objectives of the PMO and implement various programs to meet the objectives.
• Develop, own and ensure compliance with project management standards that are mutually aligned with MUFG and industry best practices.
• Provide project management tools and templates for use across the organization.
• Oversee the organization’s project portfolio to ensure effective prioritization and resource allocation.
• Monitor project progress, budgets, risks and portfolio health.
• Provide regular updates to leadership on project status and outcomes.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and stakeholders.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to understand priorities and communicate project status and outcomes.
• Lead, mentor and develop the PMO team and project managers.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Ensure adequate training and development opportunities for project management staff.
• Oversee resource planning and allocation across projects to mitigate risks and optimize efficiency.
• Lead the ASO PMO function overseeing a wide variety of projects (over 300 projects totaling over SGD 60 million)
• Lead the transformation of PMO to cover project portfolio status reporting, project lifecycle governance, project plan review, project deliverable review and phase exit reviews.
  • Oversee Project Managers’ adherence to the project lifecycle management process
  • Collaborate with the IT Finance team to manage project costs as a portfolio manager, also taking into consideration the investment budget of ASO.
  • For larger scale, higher criticality projects, PMO is expected to exercise close monitoring of status, to ensure that project risks and issues are adequately addressed in a timely manner by the project team.
  • Continuously assess and improve the project governance model.
  • Aligning with HO’s project life cycle guidelines, explore any room to further improve existing APAC governance scheme.
  • Uplift the Project Management capability in ASO, e.g., identifying knowledge gaps, socializing lessons learnt, curating PM training courses and certifications, etc.
  • Re-engineer and/or streamline existing processes to make them fit-for-purpose.
  • Leverage experience and knowledge as the ASO portfolio manager to support ASO strategic decision-making at the organization level.
• Facilitate the successful delivery of projects in the ASO portfolio but building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, project management teams, technical delivery teams, etc.

Job Requirements

• Min. 15 years of IT experience, with experience in portfolio management.
• Experience in overseeing a wide variety of projects (over 300 projects totaling over SGD 60 million)
• PMP certified
• Strategical mind set, experience in interacting with multiple stakeholders (Development Leads, Project Managers, senior stakeholders, business users, etc.)
• Proven track record with hands-on experience to deliver positive outcomes in ambiguous environments
• Experience in the establishment of frameworks, processes, procedures for large organizations
• Collaborative with a growth mindset
• Analytical, critical thinking skills
• Open-minded and innovative in exploring new and alternative solutions to optimize process, arriving at sound decisions and solutions.
• A strong leader who can communicate his/her ideas and views persuasively and sustain positive relationships with team members and other stakeholders.
• Finance qualification as well as PMP qualification are preferable.
• Experience in working in the multinational environment to understand the diversity and cultural differences
• Excellent presentation skills to deliver messages to the audience both technical domain people and non-technical people.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments

We regret to inform that only shortlisted applicants will be notified.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is an equal opportunity employer. We view our employees as our key assets as they are fundamental to our long-term growth and success. MUFG is committed to hiring based on merit and organsational fit, regardless of race, religion or gender.