PMO Professional - Banking

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced PMO professional with 10 - 20 years of experience in Banking Transformation, Business Consulting, and Program Governance.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in banking operations, business solutioning, stakeholder management, and large-scale transformation programs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive program governance, planning, tracking, and execution of large-scale banking transformation initiatives.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, product vendors, and senior leadership.
• Lead business solutioning activities including requirement gathering, functional fit-gap analysis, and business scenario modeling.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder discussions, and Accelerated Solution Design (ASD) sessions to define business and technology solutions.
• Develop business cases, value realization frameworks, and performance metrics to measure program success and business outcomes.
• Manage program risks, dependencies, issues, escalations, and governance processes across multiple workstreams.
• Support digital transformation initiatives across retail banking, corporate banking, payments, CRM, trade finance, treasury, and wealth management functions.
• Drive process improvement, operational excellence, and customer experience transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with product, business, and technology teams to evaluate and implement banking solutions and platforms.
• Ensure alignment with open banking standards, API-driven architectures, ecosystem integrations, and event-driven business models.
• Prepare executive dashboards, steering committee updates, status reports, and management presentations.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, partners, and senior stakeholders while ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for banking processes, business transformation, and banking technology solutions.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 10-20 years of experience in Banking, Banking Consulting, PMO, Program Management, Business Transformation, or Solution Consulting.
• Hands-on experience working with leading banks, banking product organizations, or financial services institutions.
• Strong understanding of banking processes, operating models, and transformation programs.
• Proven experience in business solutioning, functional consulting, requirement gathering, and fit-gap analysis.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation, modernization, or digital banking programs.
• Strong knowledge of banking domains such as Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, Digital Banking, Payments, Trade Finance, CRM, Treasury, Wealth Management, or Channels.
• Experience facilitating functional workshops, stakeholder discussions, and business process modeling exercises.
• Understanding of APIs, Open Banking, ecosystem integration, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong expertise in program governance, project planning, risk management, dependency management, and executive reporting.
• Experience managing client-facing engagements and senior stakeholder relationships.
• Excellent communication, presentation, consulting, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working with multinational clients and global delivery environments.
• Exposure to industry-leading banking products and platforms such as Finacle, Oracle Flexcube, T24, BaNCS, Fiserv, Misys, Backbase, SAP Banking, FinOne, Fundtech GPP, Clear2Pay OPF, and related banking solutions.
• Professional certifications such as JAIIB, CAIIB, CFA, PMP, Prince2, or equivalent are preferred.