Regional Manager CoE (Core Banking, Consulting)

SNAPFIND TALENT SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Our Client is seeking a Regional Manager for the CoE focused on Core Banking System Rollout across the APAC region. The role requires establishing the CoE, defining regional standards, and coordinating with Country teams to ensure consistent delivery and governance across multiple countries.

The position emphasizes regional playbooks, templates, and continuous improvement, with strong emphasis on collaboration among IT, business, and vendor stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in business/IT consulting, system implementation or CoE/standardization, preferably in banking.
• Experience in Core Banking implementations or regional rollouts is an advantage.
• Banking domain knowledge in areas such as Trade Finance, Lending, Payments, or Treasury 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 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.

Responsibilities

• Establish and operate the Regional CoE for APAC Core Banking Rollout program.
• Define and develop regional standards, policies, templates, and estimation guidance.
• Coordinate cross-functional reviews and manage dependencies across countries and releases.
• Support country teams with workshops, guidance, and rollout support.
• Convert pilot outputs into regional standards and publish them with version control.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Facilitation

Documentation

Stakeholder management

PowerPoint

Excel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Regional Manager, CoE (Core Banking System Rollout)

Our Client is seeking Regional Manager (CoE) for Core Banking System Rollout projects. Job type: Permanent with Client

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 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.