Manager, Regional CoE (Core Banking System Rollout)

GTS Consulting; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GTS Consulting seeks a seasoned professional to establish and operate the Regional Center of Excellence (CoE) for the APAC Core Banking rollout. You will define regional standards, govern playbooks, templates, and guidelines, and coordinate cross-country initiatives.

Responsibilities include aligning country delivery needs with regional policy, driving continuous improvement, and facilitating joint design and rollout support with country teams and SMEs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in business/IT consulting, system implementation, transformation delivery, process design, or CoE/standardization activities, preferably within banking or financial services.
• Experience in Core Banking implementation, regional rollout, Target Operating Model, or Playbook development is an advantage.
• Banking domain knowledge in areas such as Trade Finance, Lending, Payments, Cash Management, Treasury & Markets, Deposits, Accounting, Customer, Compliance, UAT, Testing, Migration, or Cutover is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Trade360, Oracle FLEXCUBE, Murex, ACBS, Finastra GPP, or Oracle ERP is an advantage.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven experience in developing or improving methodologies, operating models, governance frameworks, templates, deliverables, quality criteria, RACI, or decision rights.
• Ability to identify and analyse delivery gaps relating to knowledge, policy, decision criteria, ownership, input information, or delivery capability.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and dependencies across business, architecture, data, infrastructure, testing, migration, cutover, compliance, and customer/user domains.
• Experience supporting pilot implementation, lessons learned, standardization, and multi-country/multi-business-unit rollout.
• Strong Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish and operate the Regional Center of Excellence (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.

Skills

PowerPoint

Excel

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Documentation

Analytical

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Oracle FLEXCUBE

Murex

ACBS

Trade360

Oracle ERP

Job description

• Establish and operate the Regional Center of Excellence (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.

Responsibilities

• Establish and operate the Regional Center of Excellence (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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in business/IT consulting, system implementation, transformation delivery, process design, or CoE/standardization activities, preferably within banking or financial services.
• Experience in Core Banking implementation, regional rollout, Target Operating Model, or Playbook development is an advantage.
• Banking domain knowledge in areas such as Trade Finance, Lending, Payments, Cash Management, Treasury & Markets, Deposits, Accounting, Customer, Compliance, UAT, Testing, Migration, or Cutover is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Trade360, Oracle FLEXCUBE, Murex, ACBS, Finastra GPP, or Oracle ERP is an advantage.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven experience in developing or improving methodologies, operating models, governance frameworks, templates, deliverables, quality criteria, RACI, or decision rights.
• Ability to identify and analyse delivery gaps relating to knowledge, policy, decision criteria, ownership, input information, or delivery capability.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and dependencies across business, architecture, data, infrastructure, testing, migration, cutover, compliance, and customer/user domains.
• Experience supporting pilot implementation, lessons learned, standardization, and multi-country/multi-business-unit rollout.
• Strong Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills.