Consulting Project Manager - Core banking

This manager-level position is responsible for a segment within a given practice focused on a specific industry, service line, technology center, specialty area or region. Responsible for managing the three main pillars of a practice: people management, portfolio/delivery management and sales enablement. Has profit and loss responsibility or financial/expense management of practice.

Own Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Corporate Banking / Transaction Banking for Oracle Banking Services practice (Consulting) for Asia Pacific/India region with primary focus on tier1 Banks in India, based out of Oracles Mumbai center. This includes strategy, solutioning, implementation and account farming

• To identify, foster and define Oracle Banking solutions for specific customer business requirements in their digitization agenda around Corporate Remittances, SWIFT and SFMS, Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Virtual Accounts and Liquidity Management
• Understand the customers business and IT strategic requirements and identify transformational opportunities to assist the customer achieve its strategic goals
• Manage customers experience migrating from existing platform to a new platform for trade finance products
• Build customer loyalty through achieving a trusted advisor relationship
• Gather and assess customer needs, both business and technical and translate into Oracle solutions
• Translate gaps between current state of tech landscape and strategy into a project plan/roadmap
• Add clarity to business requirements; challenge business requirements and demands, to ensure high quality solutions are created
• Drive compelling proposals, presentations, and other customer and internal communications and discussions during opportunities
• Think outside of the box to support the business in delivering its strategic objectives rather than just responding to a pre-defined request
• Lead brainstorming sessions to develop potential solutions for business needs or problems
• Contribute to overall architecture and design, working closely with the enterprise architect

Champion the vision and strategy with team and support decision making with the team

Responsibilities

Atleast 4-6 years of experience as a department head or higher leading a portfolio of $1 Bn or more across Corporate Banking, Transaction Banking and Remittances in a functional capacity

• Atleast 6-8 years of experience in a techno-functional capacity implementing or designing digitization solutions for the transaction banking departments in a regional or global financial institution
• Hands on end-to-end implementation experience of leading Banking products such as Oracle FLEXCUBE and other tier1 products
• Experience with complex data migration projects
• Strong knowledge of India regulations and standards GST, EDPMS, IDPMS, SFMS and guidelines governing international remittances and trade
• Experience with SWIFT, OCR and financial Blockchain networks
• Excellent understanding of integration and implementation issues in Banking systems and their architectural implications, and of best practices in architectural and design methods
• Experience in Corporate banking applications, with broad and solid understanding of the concepts and roles behind service delivery, systems supportand security standards
• Project and program management experience, including transformation, migration and solution deployment projects in Banking domain
• Experience in planning, estimating, staffing, organizing, and working on multiple projects
• Usage of tools for story boarding, screen mock-up, work-flow depiction
• Consulting and trusted-advisor roles within major customer organizations in Banking services

Soft Skills:

• Impeccable analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, including experience presenting to senior level leadership
• Proven ability to multi-task, handle solutions related to multiple projects/customers simultaneously
• Risk appetite, ability to do a practical balance between risk and rewards to take big calls, deliver outcomes working with different customers while owning ambiguity, uncertainty in a solution space or a project and converting them into clarity and certainty
• Attention to detail and quality of work in a high paced environment
• Being able to co-ordinate, manage competing priorities against stringent and demanding timelines
• Ability to manage upwards and downwards, can negotiate and solicit engagement at all levels of the organization, and have solid experience of working with senior collaborators.