# Lead, Project Management & Governance

**Company**: Prudential
**Location**: Singapore
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Prudential's purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future.

Reporting to the Head, Finance Transformation & Governance, you will lead the Project Management and Finance Governance functions to ensure the effective delivery of key initiatives, strong financial controls, disciplined expense management, and adherence to governance requirements.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead and deliver strategic initiatives across Finance, facilitating cross-functional coordination, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and cross-functional stakeholders.

- Oversee the end-to-end project lifecycle, from initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure.

- Establish and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, risks, dependencies, budgets, and resource allocations.

- Maintain strong project discipline and ensure deliverables comply with project management standards, internal policies, audit requirements, and governance controls.

- Drive enterprise change management and ensure smooth transition of initiatives to BAU, including post-implementation reviews and benefits realisation tracking aligned with transformation governance.

- Ensure timely and transparent communications with Sponsors, Initiative Owners, Leads, and cross-functional stakeholders.

- Partner with Internal Control, Audit, Risk, Regulatory, and Transformation Office stakeholders to drive end-to-end governance and compliance excellence.

- Oversee finance governance, policies, and expenditure controls for both BAU and transformation initiatives, ensuring compliance with governance and risk requirements.

- Manage IT/finance workflow platforms supporting expenditure approvals, transformation investment tracking, and governance reporting.

- Review and validate project and expense budgets, ensuring alignment to value creation, transformation investment priorities, and financial discipline.

- Monitor project financials and division expenses, escalating deviations through appropriate governance forums.

- Conduct ad-hoc financial and expense analysis for budgeting, forecasting, scenario modelling, control enhancements, and reporting purposes.

- Support business planning, expense forecasting, and expense reporting activities.

- Conduct periodic QA reviews and follow-up on governance issues or control gaps.

- Support activities during system upgrades, migrations or parallel runs.

**Competencies & Personal Traits**

- Strong business acumen and the ability to operate across financial, operational and technical domains.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and manage senior stakeholders.

- Collaborative leader able to unify cross-functional teams toward shared outcomes.

- Highly organised, structured thinker with strong prioritisation skills.

- Meticulous, detail-oriented and disciplined in governance, documentation and follow-through.

- Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving and financial control capabilities.

- Self-driven, resilient and able to deliver quality work under time pressure.

**Working Experience**

- 8–10 years of project management and finance governance experience, preferably in a regulated financial services environment.

- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Oracle, SUNGL application is preferred.

- Experience in financial accounting, expense management, SOX, and governance frameworks, preferably in life insurance.

**Qualifications**

- Degree in accounting/finance or equivalent professional qualification.

- PMI-Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP) certification and Lean Six Sigma are advantageous.

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- finance governance
- financial accounting
- expense management
- SOX
- governance frameworks
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Oracle

### Nice to have
- PMI-Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP)
- Lean Six Sigma

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