APAC Core Banking Rollout Program Manager

Fuku; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuku is seeking a Manager, Country Project Management to bridge Regional and Country teams across APAC core banking transformation. You will lead cross-release coordination and maintain end-to-end views of country activities, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions.

You will structure country-level issues, work with CoE, vendors, and stakeholders to drive timely resolution, develop options, and prepare concise updates for regional and country leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in project/program management, PMO, business analysis, or transformation delivery.
• Proven stakeholder management and facilitation skills across Regional, Country, business, IT, and vendor teams.
• Experience in core banking transformation, renewal, or regional/APAC rollout programs.
• Knowledge of banking operations such as Trade Finance, Lending/Loans, Payments/Collections, Cash Management, Treasury & Markets, Deposits, or Accounting.
• Experience working with a Centre of Excellence (CoE), governance, standardisation, or knowledge-management function.
• Strong ability to structure ambiguous issues and translate them into actionable tasks, owners, decisions, and deadlines.
• Proven ability to work in a multinational environment and manage complex issues, risks, dependencies, and escalations.
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint for project tracking and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Act as the CPM bridge between Regional and Country teams across APAC core banking transformation.
• Lead cross-release coordination with end-to-end view of country activities, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions.
• Manage and structure country-level issues by assessing business impact, urgency, and downstream dependencies.
• Coordinate with Regional teams, Country stakeholders, CoE/domain experts, and vendors for timely resolution and decisions.
• Maintain integrated logs for issues, risks, actions, and decisions with clear ownership and deadlines.
• Develop solution options, recommendations, and interim workarounds to support continuity while decisions are pending.
• Communicate Regional decisions and requirements to Country teams for alignment and closure.
• Conduct regular country progress, risk, and issue reviews and identify recurring themes across releases.
• Translate country issues into structured improvement initiatives and support governance.
• Define and maintain clear RACI, escalation routes, and regional/country responsibility boundaries.
• Prepare concise management reports and project updates for stakeholders to enable timely decisions.
• Foster collaboration across dispersed business, IT, regional, country, and vendor teams.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-release coordination

Governance

Issue resolution

Project planning

End-to-end delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Fuku is seeking a Manager, Country Project Management to bridge Regional and Country teams across APAC core banking transformation. You will lead cross-release coordination and maintain end-to-end views of country activities, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions.

You will structure country-level issues, work with CoE, vendors, and stakeholders to drive timely resolution, develop options, and prepare concise updates for regional and country leadership.