APAC Regional CoE Lead: Banking Transformation

Abeam-Consulting-

Singapore

On-site

SGD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Job summary

ABeam Consulting is seeking a Senior CoE/Regional Center of Excellence professional to lead the APAC Core Banking rollout. You will define regional standards, coordinate cross-country reviews, and guide country teams through onboarding and deployment of standardized practices.

You will partner with domain SMEs, IT and business stakeholders to close gaps, improve playbooks, and ensure consistent delivery across markets. Fluent English communication and strong facilitation are essential.

Qualifications

:Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
Minimum 5 years in business/ IT consulting, transformation delivery, or CoE activities.
Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience developing methodologies, operating models, governance frameworks, templates, deliverables, and RACI.
Banking or financial services domain knowledge is an advantage.
Strong English communication and documentation.

Responsibilities

:Establish and operate the Regional CoE function for the APAC Core Banking Rollout Program.
Identify gaps in existing standards, playbooks, methodologies, ownership, quality, and applicability based on Country delivery needs.
Define and develop Regional standards, methodologies, policies, templates, Task Cards, quality criteria, acceptance criteria, and estimation guidance.
Establish clear boundaries between Regional standards and Country-specific requirements, including RACI, ownership, approval processes, and decision rights.
Work with domain SMEs and Country teams to develop solution options, recommended approaches, assumptions, dependencies, and exception-handling guidelines.
Coordinate cross-functional reviews across business and technical domains to ensure consistency and manage dependencies across countries and releases.
Support Country teams in applying Regional standards through workshops, guidance, FAQs, joint design, and rollout support.
Use Thailand/BKK as the pilot to validate standards, capture lessons learned, and distinguish common requirements from local requirements.
Convert validated pilot outputs into Regional standards and support their approval, publication, version control, training, and deployment to subsequent countries.
Manage and prioritize the CoE improvement backlog based on business impact, urgency, reuse potential, Country maturity, and dependencies.
Work with CPM and Country teams to identify recurring issues and drive continuous improvement of Regional standards.
Collaborate effectively with Regional, Country, Business, IT, SME, and vendor stakeholders.