Senior PMO Consultant - Banking Transformation (Philippines)

As a Senior PMO Consultant – Banking Transformation, you will work as an embedded member of the client's Project Management Office, strengthening governance and delivery across a portfolio of strategic banking transformation initiatives. You will combine senior-level PMO expertise with techno-functional support to improve planning, oversight, decision-making, and execution readiness.

What You'll Do and How You'll Succeed

PMO & Portfolio Governance

• Support the PMO Head in planning, governing, monitoring, and reporting strategic transformation initiatives.
• Establish and maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, actions, decisions, and other standard PMO controls.
• Monitor initiative progress and proactively surface delivery risks, issues, dependencies, and required management actions.
• Maintain consistency and quality across project documentation, governance processes, status reporting, and vendor deliverables.
• Coordinate across business, technology, project teams, vendors, and other stakeholders to support effective portfolio delivery.
• Prepare high-quality PMO reports, dashboards, steering committee materials, and executive and management presentations.

Initiative & Techno-Functional Support

• Conduct current-state assessments and support the definition of business, functional, and technical requirements for prioritised initiatives.
• Develop initiative plans, evaluation frameworks, recommendations, and materials that support management decision-making.
• Review technology solutions, vendor proposals, architecture, integration considerations, and operating-model implications with relevant specialists.
• Support vendor and solution evaluations, shortlisting, workshops, and coordination.
• Provide structured PMO and techno-functional support across banking transformation initiatives, including core banking, digital banking, payments, data and analytics, fintech, and related technology programmes.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Work closely with the PMO Head, senior management, business and technology teams, project leads, and external vendors.
• Facilitate effective communication, follow-through, and escalation across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Produce clear, concise, executive-level documentation that supports management and steering committee decision-making.

We'd Love to Hear From You If...

Experience

• You hold a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, Management, or a related discipline.
• You have at least eight (8) years of relevant experience in PMO, programme/project governance, technology transformation, or related roles.
• You have strong and demonstrable experience working within an established PMO function, preferably supporting multiple concurrent projects or a transformation portfolio.
• You bring significant Banking or Financial Services experience and a good understanding of banking technology and transformation environments.
• You have hands-on experience in project and portfolio planning and tracking, RAID management, governance, executive reporting, stakeholder coordination, and project documentation.
• You have supported major technology or business transformation programmes involving multiple business, technology, and vendor stakeholders.
• Experience in requirements definition, vendor or solution evaluation, or other techno-functional project activities is highly desirable.

Technical Expertise

• You have strong knowledge of PMO methodologies, governance frameworks, project controls, and reporting.
• You can understand business and technology requirements and work effectively across functional and technical teams.
• You bring strong analytical, planning, documentation, and problem-solving capability.

Ways of Working

• You are confident managing senior stakeholders and external vendors.
• You communicate clearly and can prepare high-quality executive and steering committee materials.
• You can manage multiple priorities and initiatives within a complex transformation environment.
• You are structured, proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working independently with senior stakeholders.

Assignment Details

• Employment Type: Project-Based / Consulting Assignment
• Location: Manila, Philippines

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Who We Are

Thakral One is a consulting and technology services company headquartered in Singapore, with a pan-Asian presence. We focus primarily around technology-driven consulting, adoption of value-added bespoke solutions, enabling enhanced decision support through data analytics, and embracing possibilities in the cloud. We are heavily inclined towards building capabilities collaboratively with clients and believe strongly in improving grounded and practical outcomes.

This approach is possible through our partnership with leading global technology providers and internal R&D teams. Our clients come from Financial Services, Banking, Telco, Government, Healthcare, and Consumer-oriented organisations.