Program Manager Tokyo Job

Position Name: Program Manager Tokyo Job

Annual Salary: 12 million yen and above

Responsibilities:

• Manage risk, budget, schedule for a portfolio of complex initiatives that span one or multiple lines of business or journey transformations
• Provide leadership for project teams by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones
• Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
• Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships to expand and mature program management capabilities
• Provide project and risk management oversight for all work-streams related to Operations, Compliance & Operational Risk, Finance, Risk, and business functions
• Assist the Program Office in ensuring that program governance is operating effectively
• Execute reporting to program leadership and key workstream leads on a weekly / monthly basis
• Align with leads of group functions and workstreams on a regular basis and support them in formulating and communicating program status
• Ensure that key program issues / risks are being managed effectively by all work streams
• Ensure that deliverables management processes covering the management of scope through tollgate, sign-off and change management concepts; overall roadmaps with key milestones and critical path are in place across all workstreams.
• Ensure that periodic Quality Assurance activities of key PMO processes are conducted to ensure adherence to program management framework
• Help drive standards targeting effective internal communication among all key program stakeholders

Product Owner Tokyo Job Qualifications:

• A minimum of 7 years’ experience in the Financial Services industry with a strong understanding of Product Management discipline and 7+ years or equivalent experience in product owner role
• Ideally 10+ years of relevant experience in program management of large-scale business and technology transformation within a consulting firm or equivalent within financial services
• Project management experience using Waterfall / Agile / Scrum methodology
• Familiarity with software development practices, agile and waterfall
• Experience managing staff / vendors, in the capacity of matrix program manager / delivery manager
• Experience in Salesforce Financial Services cloud implementations would be an added advantage
• Proficient in Japanese language is a must

Japanese Languages: Native japanese level (JLPT N) and business level english required

Company Description:

Company is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over three decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

. Skillset Required: Manage risk, budgeting skill, leadership and team management, program management , waterfall, agile, scrum methosology, Salesforce Financial Services , Japanese JLPT N, English 2