Manager, Regional CoE (Core Banking System Rollout)

Responsibilities:
- Establish and operate the Regional Center of Excellence (CoE) function for the APAC Core Banking Rollout Program.
- Identify gaps in existing standards, playbooks, methodologies, ownership, quality, and applicability based on Country delivery needs.
- Define and develop Regional standards, methodologies, policies, templates, Task Cards, quality criteria, acceptance criteria, and estimation guidance.
- Establish clear boundaries between Regional standards and Country-specific requirements, including RACI, ownership, approval processes, and decision rights.
- Work with domain SMEs and Country teams to develop solution options, recommended approaches, assumptions, dependencies, and exception-handling guidelines.
- Coordinate cross-functional reviews across business and technical domains to ensure consistency and manage dependencies across countries and releases.
- Support Country teams in applying Regional standards through workshops, guidance, FAQs, joint design, and rollout support.
- Use Thailand/BKK as the pilot to validate standards, capture lessons learned, and distinguish common requirements from local requirements.
- Convert validated pilot outputs into Regional standards and support their approval, publication, version control, training, and deployment to subsequent countries.
- Manage and prioritize the CoE improvement backlog based on business impact, urgency, reuse potential, Country maturity, and dependencies.
- Work with CPM and Country teams to identify recurring issues and drive continuous improvement of Regional standards.
- Collaborate effectively with Regional, Country, Business, IT, SME, and vendor stakeholders.

Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in business/IT consulting, system implementation, transformation delivery, process design, or CoE/standardization activities, preferably within banking or financial services.
- Experience in Core Banking implementation, regional rollout, Target Operating Model, or Playbook development is an advantage.
- Banking domain knowledge in areas such as Trade Finance, Lending, Payments, Cash Management, Treasury & Markets, Deposits, Accounting, Customer, Compliance, UAT, Testing, Migration, or Cutover is an advantage.
- Knowledge of Trade360, Oracle FLEXCUBE, Murex, ACBS, Finastra GPP, or Oracle ERP is an advantage.
- Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven experience in developing or improving methodologies, operating models, governance frameworks, templates, deliverables, quality criteria, RACI, or decision rights.
- Ability to identify and analyse delivery gaps relating to knowledge, policy, decision criteria, ownership, input information, or delivery capability.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and dependencies across business, architecture, data, infrastructure, testing, migration, cutover, compliance, and customer/user domains.
- Experience supporting pilot implementation, lessons learned, standardization, and multi-country/multi-business-unit rollout.
- Strong Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills.