Country Project Manager (Core Banking, Consulting)

SNAPFIND TALENT SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

SNAPFIND TALENT SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD. is seeking a Manager, Country Project Management to lead APAC core banking rollout across regional and country teams. This permanent role focuses on end-to-end coordination, risk and issue management, vendor engagement, governance, and timely decisions to sustain project continuity.

The role requires strong stakeholder facilitation, governance experience and the ability to manage complex, multi-country activities in a multinational environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 5+ years in project/program management, PMO or transformation delivery.
• Proven stakeholder management across regional and country teams.
• Experience in core banking transformation and APAC rollouts.
• Knowledge of banking operations and governance.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Stakeholder mgmt

PMO experience

Program management

Transformation

Governance

Cross-functional leadership

RACI design

Risk & issue mgmt

End-to-end planning

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Our Client is seeking Manager, Country Project Management (Core Banking System Rollout)

Job type: Permanent with Client

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, 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 responsibility boundaries.
• Prepare concise management reports and project updates for Regional and Country stakeholders to facilitate timely decision-making.
• Foster effective collaboration across geographically dispersed business, IT, Regional, Country and vendor teams.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in project/program management, PMO, business analysis or transformation delivery, preferably within banking or financial services.
• 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, standardization or knowledge-management function.
• Strong ability to structure ambiguous issues, identify business impacts and translate them into actionable tasks, owners, decisions and deadlines.
• Strong ownership, self-discipline and ability to work effectively in a multinational environment.
• Proven experience managing complex issues, risks, dependencies, decisions and escalations within large-scale system implementation or transformation programs.
• Strong capability in integrated planning, cross-workstream coordination, RACI/decision-right design and management reporting.
• Ability to develop solution options and recommendations, rather than simply coordinating or forwarding issues.
• Experience coordinating multiple releases, projects or workstreams while maintaining an end-to-end view of business and IT activities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for project tracking, analysis and management reporting.