Project Delivery Manager for Core Banking

Manages the end-to-end lifecycle of a project from start to end/closing of a project, including the benefits realization of the business when the project was implemented.

The role requires preparing functional specifications, leading testing (UAT & Integration), assisting in data migration activities, ensuring regulatory compliance, and assisting in business users training.

Key Responsibilities:

• End-to-end management of the projects' lifecycle.
• Manage and oversee business requirement gathering: Ensure document business and systems requirement are complete.
• Solution Design: Collaborate with business, IT and vendors to translate business requirement into functional specifications and system design and document the solution design.
• Business Process Analysis: Identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements to improve operations, process optimization, ensure completion of user manuals.
• UAT Conduct: Assist BA in developing test plan, test cases. Coordination with business users in the conduct of UAT. Document test results. Defects management - assist in closing reported defects.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure Core Banking solution complies with regulatory requirements. Protection of customers sensitive data.
• Data Clean-up and Migration: Analyze data from legacy system and map with the end-state system.
• Ensure Business Users Training: Assist in train-the-trainers program. Administer training sessions for business users.
• Deployment Support: Assist in system configuration (product, account, interest rates, service fees, charges, chart of accounts), parameterization and set-up (prior to deployment). Assist in defining users access matrix.

Qualifications and Competencies:

• Skill and experience in project management preferably in banks and other financial institutions.
• Strong understanding of Core Banking processes and financial products.
• Facilitation skills to bridge the gap between business and IT.
• Proven experience in business analysis within the financial services sector.
• Experience in these IT areas is non-mandatory but a plus-databases, API messaging & integration, cybersecurity, disaster recovery.
• Ability to organize meetings and communicate with business and IT stakeholders.
• Ability to create diagrams to explain system complexities and requirements.
• Ability to address minor stakeholder conflicts (conflict management)
• Preferred experience in the Loans Life Cycle, various Consumer and Corporate Loan Products.