Principal Consultant (Banking and Insurance)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Execute small to medium scale, multi-dimensional, complex led programs for clients to meet client and parameters of success and quality.
• Develop detailed program plan, carry out program execution as per the plan by coordinating with various track owners and client stakeholders.
• Draws a master schedule with appropriate milestones, conduct review with individual track owners for monitoring progress, calls out dependencies, risks and create appropriate mitigation for timeline adherence.
• Other Responsibilities include management of scope, schedule, risks, configurations, change management, communication, issue escalation, budget, quality, delivery, contract & vendor management, and people management.

Additional Skills:

• Excellent customer interfacing skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and outstanding analytical and Problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in cross cultural teams and different geographical time zones.

Preferred:

• Experience in Multi-vendor scenario

Skills /Competencies:

• Experience as a program manager in medium to large end-to-end implementations of SAP ECC or S/4 HANA or other ERP packages for manufacturing / automotive/CPG customers.
• Bilingual, strong communication capabilities in Japanese / English

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education.
• At least 12 years of experience in Information Technology.
• Japanese citizens and those authorized to work in Japan are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.
• At least 8 years of experience in project management, program management.
• Strong (near-native) Japanese skills, with business-level Japanese skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 6 years of experience in Digital Transformation
• Experience on cloud migration or legacy migration projects
• Experience in Cloud
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in software development life cycle
• Ability to work in team in diverse/ multiple stakeholder environment.
• Experience and desire to work in a Global delivery environment.