Sr Project Manager

Role: Senior Project Manager
Job Requisition Number: ISPH-002
Job Level: 8 – 15 years of relevant experience (L3/L4)
Location: Philippines
Key Responsibilities:
MULTIVENDOR, MULTI-COUNTRY TEAM LEADERSHIP
• 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.
GOVERNANCE & STAKEHOLDER 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.
PROGRAMME & DELIVERY MANAGEMENT
• 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.
• Manage scope and change control across FSD/ISD, fit-gap analysis, and implementation roadmaps.
Key Requirements:
• 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.
Technical Skills: