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Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering scope, milestones, resources, budgets and dependencies.
- Define deliverables, acceptance criteria and governance arrangements with business and technology stakeholders.
- Coordinate requirements workshops, fit-gap assessments and solution decisions across banking operations, finance, risk, compliance and IT.
- Manage implementation workstreams covering product configuration, extensions, interfaces, reporting and operational readiness.
- Oversee integrations with banking channels, payment systems, general ledger and other enterprise applications, coordinating API, middleware, batch and interface delivery.
- Lead data migration planning, including mapping, cleansing, trial migrations, data quality validation, reconciliation and business sign-off.
- Oversee system integration testing, user acceptance testing and performance testing, ensuring effective defect prioritisation and resolution.
- Maintain project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, driving mitigation, contingency planning and timely escalation.
- Manage scope changes through documented impact assessments and formal approval processes.
- Manage implementation partners and vendors against statements of work, contractual commitments, delivery milestones and quality expectations.
- Lead progress meetings and coordinate delivery using Waterfall, Agile or hybrid methodologies, as appropriate.
- Act as the primary project contact for bank stakeholders, Oracle product and support teams, implementation partners and third-party system integrators.
- Manage stakeholder expectations, resolve competing priorities and communicate effectively with senior executives and business unit leaders.
- Provide clear reporting to sponsors and steering committees on delivery progress, financial performance, risks and decisions required.
- Coordinate user training, process changes, operating procedures and transition to production support.
- Lead cutover rehearsals, go-live readiness reviews, contingency planning and post-go-live stabilisation.
- Ensure applicable regulatory, information security, access control, audit and business continuity requirements are addressed throughout delivery.
Required Qualifications and Skills
- 12–20 years of relevant professional experience, including demonstrated experience leading core banking implementation or transformation projects.
- Hands-on project delivery experience with Oracle Banking Products, including Oracle FLEXCUBE.
- Strong understanding of banking processes, including customer onboarding, accounts, deposits, lending, payments and financial reconciliation.
- Experience managing complex integrations, data migration, testing and production cutover.
- Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, cross-functional teams and external implementation partners.
- Strong project planning, budgeting, resource management, risk management and stakeholder communication skills.
- Ability to translate technical and functional issues into clear business impacts, options and decisions.
- Experience managing vendor commitments, statements of work and change requests.
- Strong leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution and escalation management skills.
- Proficiency with MS Project, Jira or equivalent project delivery tools, with experience using collaboration and reporting tools such as Confluence, Excel or Power BI.
- Experience working within Waterfall, Agile or hybrid delivery environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP, PRINCE2 or an equivalent project management certification.
- Experience delivering at least one Oracle FLEXCUBE implementation through go-live and stabilisation.
- Experience with legacy core banking replacement, multi-country rollouts or phased implementations.
- Experience working with Oracle product teams or Oracle FLEXCUBE implementation partners.
- Exposure to regulatory requirements, audit controls, information security and business continuity in banking environments.
- Experience supporting organisational change, user adoption and operational readiness during banking transformation programmes.