Senior Manager, Banking & Financial Services Technology Transformation

Fuku; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuku is seeking a senior consulting leader to drive end-to-end core banking transformation and advise on strategy, operating models, and roadmaps across Payments, Lending, Trade Finance, and more.

The role focuses on leading multi-stream programs, stakeholder alignment, and delivering high-impact, governance-driven outcomes for banking clients, with responsibility for coaching teams and executive-level deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any relevant field.
• Minimum 10 years of professional consulting experience.
• Proven track record leading large-scale banking transformation.
• Experience in client advisory and executive-level delivery.
• Deep knowledge of banking domains (Payments, Lending, Trade Finance, etc.).
• Strong proposal development and pipeline development experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end core banking transformation programs with governance and delivery excellence.
• Advise on strategy, operating models, and roadmaps across banking domains.
• Provide advisory support to client executives on risks, prioritization and benefits realization.
• Manage multi-stream programs and align stakeholders around business value and regulatory compliance.
• Facilitate executive forums, workshops, and steering committees to accelerate transformation.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Engagement leadership

Executive communication

Problem solving

Business acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Responsibilities

Core Banking Business Transformation Leadership

• Lead end to end core banking transformation programs, driving client outcomes, governance, and delivery excellence.
• Advise on strategy, operating models, and roadmaps across Payments, Lending, Trade Finance, Deposits, Accounts, Risk, and Finance.
• Provide trusted advisory support to client executives on transformation risks, prioritization, trade-offs, sequencing, and benefits realization.
• Manage multi stream programs, align stakeholders, and ensure decisions are anchored in business value, customer impact, and regulatory compliance.
• Facilitate executive forums, workshops, and steering committees to accelerate transformation.

Business Development

• Build senior client relationships and originate opportunities in core banking, digital banking, payments, lending, and trade finance.
• Lead proposals, RFPs, solution design, and commercial discussions.
• Collaborate with vendors and partners to shape joint offerings and bring market insights into client engagements.
• Contribute to practice growth through thought leadership, methodologies, and go to market assets.

People Leadership

• Lead and coach consulting teams, fostering a high performance culture.
• Guide delivery excellence in roadmaps, operating models, business cases, and executive presentations.
• Share best practices and build firm capability in banking technology transformation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any relevant field.
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in a consulting firm, with significant experience serving banking or financial services clients.
• Proven track record leading large-scale banking transformation, core banking transformation, operating model transformation, or technology-enabled business transformation engagements.
• Strong consulting background with experience in client advisory, engagement leadership, business transformation, stakeholder management, and executive-level communication.
• Deep understanding of banking business domains such as Payments, Lending, Trade Finance, Loans, Deposits, Accounts, Customer, Channels, Operations, Risk, Finance, and related enterprise functions.
• Strong track record in proposal development, RFP responses, opportunity origination, solution shaping, commercial discussions, and pipeline development.
• Experience developing business cases, transformation roadmaps, operating model designs, governance structures, change management approaches, and executive-level deliverables
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop consulting teams while ensuring high-quality client deliverables.
• Strong executive presence, structured problem-solving skills, business acumen, and ability to operate effectively in complex client environments.
• Experience engaging senior stakeholders such as CIO, COO, CTO, CDO, Heads of Transformation, Operations, Payments, Lending, and business unit leaders will be advantageous.