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