FWD spans Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam and Japan. In Hong Kong, FWD offers life and medical insurance, general insurance, employee benefits, and financial planning. FWD is focused on creating fresh customer experiences, with easy-to-understand and relevant products, supported by digital technology. Through this customer-led approach, FWD aims to become a leading pan-Asian insurer that changes the way people feel about insurance.

FWD is the insurance business of investment group, Pacific Century Group. The life insurance and general insurance operating entities have been assigned strong financial strength ratings by international rating agencies. While FWD Life Insurance Company (Bermuda) Limited has been affirmed ‘A3’ by Moody's and ‘A’ by Fitch, FWD General Insurance Company Limited has also received ‘A’ rating from Fitch, all with a stable outlook.

In Hong Kong & Macau, FWD has been providing quality services to around 534,000 customers with over 730 staff.

If you are looking for a company where can fuel your inspiration and cultivate your expertise, join us on our exciting journey.

This position will oversee the IT project team for data conversion project. Ideally, the candidate needs to have strong understanding on CAPSIL, Life Asia as well as Life insurance products & administration practise.

The Job

• Provide management, administrative, prepare business case, and take the ownership of data conversion project.
• Project initiation, planning, resources estimation & tracking, leading system design, development, process (re-)mapping, data conversion and implementation.
• Work out master project plans and outlines interdependencies, manages communications amongst projects, and sets realistic objectives/milestones for IT Project Team and/or communicate with onsite & offshore IT teams, PMO and vendors.
• Maintains measureable and quality of project deliverables, including operation process/function mapping, data conversion requirements within defined and agreed upon project requirements.
• Define project management methodologies, governance, policy, benchmark, and procedure for data conversion project.
• Manage project changes and costs/performance balance. Communicates with senior executives and project stakeholders to manage expectations, maintain smooth operations as BAU continuity for HK & Macau. Communicates project goals and processes to Project Team, Sponsors and Stakeholders to ensure project continuity till completion.
• Oversees project risks, identifies, determines and recommends risk mitigation solution on projects and implements as appropriate.
• Determines, obtains and provides project metrics/status to stakeholders to communicate project progress. Leverages corporate synergies for project effectiveness and efficiency purposes.
• Follow Life system architecture/standard  to ensure data conversion & process mapping can be carried out aligning with preset FWD HK standard/roadmap ;
• Take up advisory role to give business/ technical recommendations to Head of IT, CTOO for special projects ;

The Person

• University degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent, minimum 20 years' working experience in Information Technology, with at least 8 years at senior/project manager position, specialized in Life system development, data conversion and implementation. 
• Proven track records in managing Life administration systems, preferably experiences in implementing IT systems/data conversion projects to support HK or Asian countries.
• Competent knowledge in CAPSIL is a must. Understanding on Life Asia system and Front-end system technologies (i.e. .NET, Java, MQ-Series, OpenText) will be advantageous.
• Competent knowledge and experience in enterprise-scale IT systems projects for Life insurance business. 
• Good knowledge in Life insurance products and workflow procedures/practises.

We offer 5-day work, 20-22 days annual leaves, excellent learning & development opportunities and an attractive package to the right candidate.

Information collected will be treated in strict confidence and used solely for recruitment purpose. The company will retain all applications no longer than 24 months of which will be destroyed thereafter. When there are vacancies in any of our subsidiaries, holding companies, associated or affiliated companies of, or companies controlled by, or under common control with the Company during that period, we may transfer your application to them for consideration of employment. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, disability or family status in employment process.