Country Project Manager (Core Banking, Consulting)

SNAPFIND TALENT SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SNAPFIND TALENT SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD. is assisting a client to hire a Manager, Country Project Management for the APAC core banking rollout in Singapore. You will bridge Regional and Country teams, manage end-to-end country activities, and coordinate across releases.

Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years in project management, PMO, or transformation delivery in banking, with strong stakeholder management, governance experience, and proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required.
• 5+ years in project/program management, PMO, business analysis or transformation delivery in banking/financial services preferred.
• Proven stakeholder management and facilitation across regional, country, business, IT and vendor teams.
• Experience in core banking transformation or regional/APAC rollout programs.
• Strong planning, RACI/decision-right design and management reporting capabilities.
• Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint for tracking and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Act as the CPM bridge between Regional and Country teams across the APAC core banking transformation program.
• Lead end-to-end country activity coordination, including risks, issues and decisions.
• Manage and structure country-level issues with clear ownership and deadlines.
• Coordinate with Regional teams, CoE, vendors to drive issue resolution.
• Maintain integrated logs for issues, risks, actions, and decisions with escalation paths.
• Develop solution options and interim workarounds to ensure program continuity.
• Communicate regional decisions and requirements to country teams for alignment.
• Conduct regular country progress, risk and issue reviews and identify recurring themes.
• Translate issues into structured improvement initiatives and governance enhancements.
• Define and maintain clear RACI and decision rights boundaries.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Transformation delivery

Issue/risk management

Multinational teamwork

Governance & reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Microsoft 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.