Complex Project Manager

About the role

We are looking for a senior Project Manager to own end-to-end delivery of the Philippines Core Banking Transformation programme. This is a complex, multi-phase, multivendor engagement spanning Trade Finance, Lending, CASA, and Payments, delivered by a distributed team across the Philippines, India, and Singapore.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a distributed team (Domain lead, PMO, Solution Architect, Security Architect) plus domain SMEs and BAs
• Coordinate delivery across Philippines, India, and Singapore hubs, resolving time-zone, resourcing, and hand-off friction between locations
• Manage multiple vendors and product partners (core banking, payments, and trade platform providers) to a single delivery plan and a single set of commitments
• Ensure smooth on-the-ground coordination, and client team management
• Act as the primary delivery point of contact for the project and collaborate with client executive stakeholders
• Run structured governance: weekly outcomes, phase-gate reviews, and clear escalation paths to delivery leadership
• Present progress, risks, and decisions to executive stakeholders in a concise, business-first format
• Identify and manage programme risk, including regulatory considerations relevant to Philippine banking operations
• Own the delivery plan across all phases including the week-by-week execution roadmap
• Track effort, budget, and schedule against the person-month plan and proactively manage variances

About you

• 15+ years of overall Project/Programme Management experience, including delivery ownership of at least one large-scale Core Banking implementation end-to-end
• Demonstrated experience managing Pre-Study → Estimate/Approval → Implementation lifecycles in a banking or financial services environment
• Working understanding of Trade Finance, Lending, CASA, and Payments domains able to converse credibly with SMEs and challenge estimates
• Proven experience managing multivendor and multi-country / distributed delivery teams (onshore/offshore models)
• Strong command of project financials, resource planning, and effort tracking in person-months
• Experience with core banking and adjacent platforms such as Flexcube, ACBS, Trade 360, Murex, or Finastra GPP (direct implementation experience or close oversight)
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills; comfortable running governance with senior banking executives
• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification preferred
• Prior experience in the Philippines banking sector is a strong plus
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Business, IT, Engineering, or Finance); MBA or equivalent is a plus