Job Description

Role Purpose:

We are looking for a Senior Project/ Program Manager to own end-to-end delivery of the Philippines Core Banking Transformation programme. This is a complex, multi-phase, multivendor engagement spanning Trade Finance, Lending, CASA, and Payments, delivered by a distributed team across the Philippines, India, and Singapore.

Key Responsibilities:

Multivendor, Multi-Country Team Leadership

Lead a distributed team (Domain lead, PMO, Solution Architect, Security Architect) plus domain SMEs and BAs.
Coordinate delivery across Philippines, India, and Singapore hubs, resolving time-zone, resourcing, and hand-off friction between locations.
Manage multiple vendors and product partners (core banking, payments, and trade platform providers) to a single delivery plan and a single set of commitments.
Ensure smooth on-the-ground coordination, and client team management.

Governance & Stakeholder Management

Act as the primary delivery point of contact for the project and collaborate with client executive stakeholders.
Run structured governance: weekly outcomes, phase-gate reviews, and clear escalation paths to delivery leadership.
Present progress, risks, and decisions to executive stakeholders in a concise, business-first format.
Identify and manage programme risk, including regulatory considerations relevant to Philippine banking operations.

Programme & Delivery Management

Own the delivery plan across all phases including the week-by-week execution roadmap.
Track effort, budget, and schedule against the person-month plan and proactively manage variances.
Manage scope and change control across FSD/ISD, fit-gap analysis, and implementation roadmaps.

Required Qualifications & Experience

15+ years of overall Project/Program Management experience, including delivery ownership of at least one large-scale Core Banking implementation end-to-end.
Demonstrated experience managing Pre-Study → Estimate/Approval → Implementation lifecycles in a banking or financial services environment.
Working understanding of Trade Finance, Lending, CASA, and Payments domains able to converse credibly with SMEs and challenge estimates.
Proven experience managing multivendor and multi-country / distributed delivery teams (onshore/offshore models).
Strong command of project financials, resource planning, and effort tracking in person-months.
Experience with core banking and adjacent platforms such as Flexcube, ACBS, Trade 360, Murex, or Finastra GPP (direct implementation experience or close oversight).
Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills; comfortable running governance with senior banking executives.
PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification preferred.
Prior experience in the Philippines banking sector is a strong plus.
Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Business, IT, Engineering, or Finance); MBA or equivalent is a plus.