Project Manager

LG CNS Singapore; Metro Manila; Hybrid; PHP 2,400,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

LG CNS Singapore is seeking a senior Project Manager to own end-to-end delivery of the Philippines Core Banking Transformation programme. The project spans Trade Finance, Lending, CASA, and Payments, with a distributed team across the Philippines, India, and Singapore.

The role requires coordinating across hubs, managing vendors, and ensuring governance with executives. Working location: Singapore and Philippines; travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in Project/Programme Management with large core banking delivery.
• Experience managing Pre-Study → Estimate/Approval → Implementation lifecycles in banking or financial services.
• Working understanding of Trade Finance, Lending, CASA, and Payments domains.
• Proven multivendor, multi-country delivery experience with onshore/offshore models.
• Strong command of project financials, resource planning, and effort tracking.

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed team across Philippines, India, and Singapore.
• Coordinate delivery across time zones, resourcing, and hand-offs.
• Manage multiple vendors to a single delivery plan and commitments.
• Governance: weekly outcomes, phase-gate reviews, and executive escalation.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Multivendor delivery

Financials & budgeting

Governance & reporting

Cross-country coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/IT/Engineering/Finance

MBA or equivalent

Tools

Flexcube

ACBS

Trade 360

Murex

Finastra GPP

Job description

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.

Working Location: Singapore and Philippines

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.

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/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.