Complex Project Manager

PAN ASIA HR CONSULTING PH INC.; Philippines; Hybrid; PHP 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

PAN ASIA HR CONSULTING PH INC. seeks a senior Project Manager to own end-to-end delivery of a Philippines Core Banking Transformation programme, spanning multiple domains and vendors.

The role covers leadership of a distributed team across the Philippines, India, and Singapore and governance with client executives. The candidate will drive delivery plans, budgets, and schedules, manage risks, and ensure regulatory considerations in Philippine banking operations are addressed.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of overall Project/Programme 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).

Responsibilities

• 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 to a single delivery plan and a single set of commitments.
• Ensure smooth on-the-ground coordination, and client team 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.
• 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.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Governance facilitation

Multivendor management

Project lifecycle management

Financial tracking

Education

Bachelor's degree (Business, IT, Engineering, or Finance)

MBA or equivalent

Job description

About the role

We are looking for a senior Project 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

About you

• 15+ years of overall Project/Programme 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