We are seeking an experienced Lending Functional Lead (Corporate Banking) with deep expertise in FIS ACBS to join our Core Banking Transformation Program. This role is pivotal in shaping and delivering the bank's future-state corporate lending landscape, encompassing bilateral, syndicated, and structured lending, as well as trade finance.
The ideal candidate will bring a combination of corporate lending domain expertise, hands-on ACBS experience, and program coordination capabilities, ensuring business requirements are effectively translated into system solutions aligned with the transformation roadmap.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the corporate lending functional stream within the transformation program, with a focus on ACBS implementation.
- Define and design target-state processes across the corporate lending lifecycle.
- Ensure process designs align with risk, regulatory, and business objectives.
- Translate corporate banking requirements into functional ACBS configurations and specifications.
- Perform gap analysis between current-state processes and ACBS capabilities.
- Collaborate with vendors, IT, and integration teams to validate solutions and manage dependencies with surrounding systems (e.g., GL, risk, reporting, digital channels).
- Serve as the functional workstream lead, coordinating across business, IT, and vendor teams.
- Track workstream deliverables, issues, and dependencies, ensuring timely resolution.
- Support program governance through regular updates, risk/issue management, and preparation of decision papers for steering committees.
- Align with parallel streams (data, migration, integration, testing) to ensure cohesive delivery.
- Partner with stakeholders across corporate banking, risk, compliance, operations, and finance to align on requirements.
- Facilitate workshops and decision forums to capture business needs and resolve cross-functional issues.
- Act as the trusted SME for ACBS and corporate lending transformation.
- Define and oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for corporate lending functionalities in ACBS.
- Support data migration planning, reconciliation, and validation for lending portfolios.
- Lead cutover activities and ensure smooth post-go-live stabilization.
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in Corporate Banking within the Financial Services industry, with a focus on lending and syndicated loans.
- Hands-on experience with FIS ACBS (configuration, functional design, implementation, or support)
- At least 3 years of experience in core banking/lending transformation programs, including system implementation and migration.
- In-depth knowledge of corporate lending products and familiarity with credit approval processes, covenant monitoring, and collateral management.
- Demonstrated experience in program/project coordination, ideally within multi-vendor and multi-country transformation environments.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.
Interested Applicants, please email your resume to [Confidential Information] (R1441955), stating the position as the subject title in the email.
