Job Description

Appealing Points:

• Lead High-Impact IT Projects in the Financial Sector: Take ownership of end-to-end project execution for leading financial and consumer finance institutions, with opportunities to manage both large-scale system upgrades and innovative digital transformations.
• Build Strategic Relationships with Cross-Functional Teams: Act as a key liaison between business users, client IT teams, vendors, and development staff, using your Japanese language and project leadership skills to influence outcomes and build long-term trust with stakeholders.
• Expand Your Technical and Managerial Expertise: Work in a dynamic environment that values both your project management and technical background—enhancing your skills in SDLC, cloud migration, documentation, and modern technologies like AWS and programming frameworks.

Annual Salary: 6 Million and Above

Job Responsibilities:

• Role requires to plan, execute and oversee IT projects for financial and consumer finance institutes. Job role requires to have good understanding of Project management and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Responsible for project planning and execution of project – large to small size project.
• Responsible for overall tracking, scheduling, quality, cost management and reporting the same to stake holders.
• Responsible for communication with different stakeholders – Business Users, Client IT and operation team, Vendor staff & development team.
• Responsible for reviewing & working on documentation required during project life cycle and walkthrough with users / client.
• Understand technical & functional aspect of project, responsible to secure various approvals during project life cycle from customer at different levels.
• Creating and sharing project reports, weekly project status with various teams.
• Responsible to gain insight of customer business and align with their roadmap to strengthen trust and long-lasting relationship.

Qualifications:

Mandatory

• Work Experience in a Japanese company as a project Manager.
• Very good Japanese communication, means japanese Native
• Vendor Management
• Software development life cycle management
• Experience in managing projects (System/ Application development project)
• 5-10% of English is also ok, we don’t need bilinguals in APLUS
• Understanding of tech, cloud is better
• Minimum 5 years of experience in project management (both PM / PL are ok).
• Experienced of complete Software development life cycle & experience of executing large to medium size IT development projects.
• Experienced in creating documentation, reviewing project artefacts and project deliverables.
• Experienced working as a PM / PL in IT department in Japanese company, preferably financial company but it is not mandatory.
• Background of development and understanding of technology is preferred and good to have.
• Experience of migration legacy systems to newer platform is preferable.
• Understanding of cloud platforms preferably AWS is good but not mandatory.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Strong Japanese communication skill as the role demands communication at different level and with various stakeholders.
• Project Management skills to manage project scope, timelines, resources, milestones, quality.
• Process management and documentation using tools such as EXCEL, Word, Powerpoint etc.
• Experience working with project manager, project lead as an PM / Engineer.
• Experience of understanding and defining requirements in standard requirement document formats.
• Knowledge of any programming language like C#, JAVA and Python is preferred.
• Understanding of complete Software Development Lifecycle
• Understanding of database, cloud platform is preferred.
• Understanding of basic English language is good to have but not mandatory.

Langauge skills : Native Japanese Level(JLPT N) and Business Level English

Company Description:

It is the leading provider of lending and transaction banking solutions to the global financial services industry. Its software powers the operations of more than 200 financial institutions in 50 countries, supporting retail banking, corporate banking, cash management, internet banking, automotive finance & other business areas.

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