Manager, Regional CoE (Core Banking System Rollout)

Abeam Consulting (Singapore) Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ABeam Consulting, a global professional services firm, seeks a seasoned regional CoE lead to establish and operate the APAC CoE for core banking rollout programs. You will define regional standards, templates, and governance, and coordinate country delivery across multiple streams and countries.

The role requires 5+ years in banking or financial services consulting, strong analytical and stakeholder management, and proficiency with PowerPoint and Excel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years in business/ IT consulting or CoE/ standardization.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, and stakeholder management.
• Experience developing methodologies, operating models, governance, templates, RACI.
• Identify delivery gaps related to knowledge, policy, or ownership.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across business, IT, data, infra, testing, migration.
• Support pilot implementation, lessons learned, and multi-country rollout.
• Strong English communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish and operate the Regional CoE for APAC Core Banking rollout.
• Identify gaps in standards, playbooks, and ownership; set guidance.
• Define and develop regional standards, templates, quality criteria, and estimates.
• Clarify boundaries between regional standards and country requirements.
• Work with domain SMEs and country teams on solution options and guidelines.
• Coordinate cross-functional reviews to manage dependencies across countries.
• Support country teams with regional standards through workshops and guidance.
• Pilot using Thailand/BKK; capture lessons; publish regional standards.
• Manage CoE backlog based on impact, urgency, and dependencies.
• Collaborate with Regional, Country, Business, IT, SME, and vendors.

Skills

PowerPoint

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

About Us

ABeam Consulting is a global professional services company that specializes in delivering business transformation and technology solutions to clients across a wide range of industries. With a global presence and over 9000 employees worldwide we aim to be the transformation partner of choice for all of our clients.

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.
• 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 analyze 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.
• 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 English communication and documentation skills.

Why Join Us

At ABeam Consulting, we place a strong emphasis on collaboration, and helping our employees grow and develop their skills, offering a supportive and empowering work environment. With a presence in multiple countries and a diverse range of clients, ABeam Consulting offers an exciting and dynamic workplace for individuals looking to build a career in consulting. ABeam Consulting has also recently joined SAP’s regional strategic partner initiative as their first regional partner in the region and has also been recognized by UiPath as a Diamond Partner in providing RPA solutions. With such accolades, we aim to continue driving enterprise and digital transformation initiatives in order to transform the way people work and communicate in the digital age. In addition, our industry team is working tirelessly in order to bring more solutions to the banking and finance sector.

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