Senior Project Manager Core Banking

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Transact Project Portfolio Management

• Maintain a consolidated view of all WITT projects and initiatives impacting Transact.

• Build and maintain the overall Transact roadmap, including key milestones, releases and dependencies.

• Ensure that each initiative has a clearly defined scope, owner, planning, dependencies and delivery target.

• Identify conflicts or overlaps between projects and facilitate prioritisation when required.

• Monitor the impact of new demands and changes on the existing Transact roadmap.

End-to-End Delivery Coordination

• Follow projects from initial assessment through design, build, testing, deployment and post-production follow-up.

• Coordinate the different contributors involved in Transact deliveries.

• Ensure dependencies between Transact and other WITT streams/assets are identified early and actively managed.

• Challenge delivery plans and ensure that commitments are realistic and properly secured.

• Escalate blockers and deviations when necessary and drive remediation plans.

Governance & Reporting

• Establish and maintain a clear governance framework for the Transact perimeter.

• Prepare consolidated reporting covering:

– delivery status

– milestones

– risks and issues

– dependencies

– decisions required

– capacity constraints

– key upcoming activities

• Provide management with a single, reliable view of the Transact portfolio.

• Organise and facilitate regular Transact project reviews with the relevant stakeholders.

Risk & Dependency Management

• Maintain a consolidated RAID log covering Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies.

• Identify critical dependencies across projects and WITT streams.

• Anticipate potential delivery bottlenecks.

• Ensure mitigation and recovery plans are defined, owned and followed.

• Escalate critical risks early enough to allow management decisions and corrective actions.

Release & Operational Readiness

• Coordinate Transact-related activities with the relevant WITT release and operational processes.

• Ensure production readiness is assessed before major deployments.

• Track operational prerequisites, cutover activities and post-go-live actions.

• Ensure that project deliveries properly transition into the operational model.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the main coordination point between the relevant stakeholders, including:

– WITT OPS

– WITT IT streams

– Business teams

– Operations

– Transact teams

– Architecture

– Testing teams

– Release Management

– Production / Support teams

– external partners or vendors when applicable

• The PM is expected to connect the different teams and proactively resolve cross-stream topics, rather than simply reporting them.

EXPECTED DELIVERABLES

The Transact PM will maintain, at minimum:

• Transact master roadmap

• Consolidated project portfolio

• Milestone and delivery tracker

• RAID log

• Cross-stream dependency tracker

• Decision log

• Release / deployment calendar

• Management dashboard

• Weekly Transact status report

• Action tracker with owner and target date

TECHNICAL & BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

Project Management

• Proven experience managing complex IT projects or portfolios.

• Strong understanding of project governance, planning, RAID management and dependency management.

• Ability to manage several initiatives simultaneously.

• Strong analytical and organisational capabilities.

• Ability to challenge plans, commitments and priorities.

Banking / Technology

• Experience in banking IT, preferably Wealth Management or Private Banking.

• Good understanding of core banking platforms and their integration within a complex information system.

• Knowledge of Temenos Transact / T24 is a must.

• Understanding of banking operations, releases, testing and production processes.

Leadership

• Strong coordination and stakeholder-management skills.

• Comfortable working across Business, IT and Operations.

• Ability to influence contributors without necessarily having direct hierarchical authority.

• Strong communication and synthesis skills.

• Ability to escalate issues clearly while remaining solution-oriented.

• Comfortable interacting with senior management.

KEY SUCCESS CRITERIA

Success in the role will be measured by the ability to:

• Provide one consolidated and reliable view of everything impacting Transact.

• Ensure that no major dependency or risk is discovered too late.

• Improve coordination between Transact and the other WITT streams.

• Increase predictability of Transact deliveries.

• Ensure clear ownership and follow-up of actions and decisions.

• Identify capacity or planning conflicts sufficiently early to allow arbitration.

• Facilitate faster resolution of blockers impacting WITT deliveries.

MISCELLANEOUS & REPORTING LINE

• The position will include some travel mainly from Singapore to India and potentially to Europe based on the need.

• The Transact PM will report directly to the OPS Division Head and will have a dotted reporting line to WITT Program Manager.