Functional Project Manager Payments Transformation

Location: Bengaluru or Pune (5 days WFO / Hybrid as per business need)
Work Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Experience Required: 8 14 Years (7+ relevant)
Compensation: INR 25,00,000 32,00,000 per annum
Job Overview
The Functional Project Manager Payments will lead complex, business-side transformation initiatives for large global banks, focusing on payments and trade finance. This is a functional/delivery PM role (not pure IT PM), driving endtoend project lifecycle, process improvement, and digital transformation, while managing senior stakeholders across geographies.
Key Responsibilities

• Own endtoend delivery of payments and trade finance transformation projects within global banking environments.
• Plan, track, and manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits.
• Lead functional change initiatives (not pure tech PM), including operating model, process, and policy changes.
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  Drive digital transformation projects (at least 23 large digital deliveries in banks) in payments and related domains.
• Conduct change impact assessments and ensure effective communication and stakeholder alignment.
• Work closely with senior business stakeholders across regions; manage expectations, negotiations, and escalations.
• Prepare and present project status reports, steering decks, risk/issue logs, and resourcing plans.
• Champion Agile ways of working; align teams to Agile practices and cadences.
• Ensure projects deliver tangible business outcomes rather than purely consulting artefacts.
  

MustHave Skills & Profile

• Strong functional project management background in global banks.
• Deep banking domain understanding with global bank exposure (mandatory).
• Handson experience in Trade Finance and Payments (payments transformation, digital payments journeys, process change).
• Proven experience delivering transformation projects (business/functional), not just IT implementation.
• Strong core PM skills:
• Planning & tracking

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• Risks & issues management
• Cost & benefits management
• Change impact assessment
• Reporting & resourcing
• 23+ digital project deliveries in large banks (payments/digital banking).
• Strong alignment with Agile ways of working (Scrum/Agile delivery).
• Experience working with senior and crossgeography stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, articulation, and negotiation skills.
  

Certifications & Education

• Musthave certifications: PMP, CSM, Agile, and PRINCE2.
• Education: MBA and/or B.Tech/BE preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant functional PM experience in global banking (overall 814 years).