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.