Manager, Country Project Management Core Banking System Rollout

Manager, Country Project Management (Core Banking System Rollout)

Responsibilities: - Act as the Country Project Management (CPM) bridge between Regional and Country teams across the APAC core banking transformation program. - Lead cross-release coordination across multiple releases, maintaining an end-to-end view of country activities, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions. - Manage and structure Country-level issues by assessing business impact, urgency, required response dates, and downstream dependencies. - Coordinate with Regional teams, Country stakeholders, Centre of Excellence (CoE)/domain experts, and vendors to drive issue resolution and timely decision-making. - Maintain integrated issue, risk, action, and decision logs, ensuring clear ownership, deadlines, and appropriate escalation. - Develop solution options, recommendations, and interim workarounds to support project continuity while decisions are pending. - Communicate Regional decisions and requirements to Country teams, ensuring alignment, understanding, and follow-through to closure. - Conduct regular Country progress, risk, and issue reviews, and identify recurring issues or common themes across countries and releases. - Translate recurring Country issues into structured improvement initiatives and support the enhancement of Regional standards, guidelines, and governance. - Define and maintain clear RACI, decision rights, escalation routes, and Regional/Country responsibility boundaries. - Prepare concise management reports and project updates for Regional and Country stakeholders to facilitate timely decision-making. - Foster effective collaboration across geographically dispersed business, IT, Regional, Country, and vendor teams.

Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. - Minimum 5 years of experience in project/program management, PMO, business analysis, or transformation delivery, preferably within banking or financial services. - Proven stakeholder management and facilitation skills across Regional, Country, business, IT, and vendor teams. - Experience in core banking transformation, renewal, or regional/APAC rollout programs. - Knowledge of banking operations such as Trade Finance, Lending/Loans, Payments/Collections, Cash Management, Treasury & Markets, Deposits, or Accounting. - Experience working with a Centre of Excellence (CoE), governance, standardisation, or knowledge-management function. - Strong ability to structure ambiguous issues, identify business impacts, and translate them into actionable tasks, owners, decisions, and deadlines. - Strong ownership, self-discipline, and ability to work effectively in a multinational environment. - Proven experience managing complex issues, risks, dependencies, decisions, and escalations within large-scale system implementation or transformation programs. - Strong capability in integrated planning, cross-workstream coordination, RACI/decision-right design, and management reporting. - Ability to develop solution options and recommendations, rather than simply coordinating or forwarding issues. - Experience coordinating multiple releases, projects, or workstreams while maintaining an end-to-end view of business and IT activities. - Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for project tracking, analysis, and management reporting.