Manager, Regional CoE Core Banking System Rollout

About the role

Fuku is hiring a Manager for its Regional Center of Excellence (CoE) covering the Core Banking System Rollout program, based in Singapore. The role establishes and runs the Regional CoE for the APAC Core Banking Rollout Program, defining standards and supporting country teams through pilots and rollouts.

Key responsibilities

• Establish and operate the Regional CoE function for the APAC Core Banking Rollout Program.
• Identify gaps in existing standards, playbooks, methodologies, ownership, quality and applicability based on country delivery needs.
• Define and develop Regional standards, methodologies, policies, templates, task cards, quality and acceptance criteria, and estimation guidance.
• Set clear boundaries between Regional standards and country-specific requirements, including RACI, ownership, approval processes and decision rights.
• Work with domain SMEs and country teams on solution options, approaches, assumptions, dependencies and exception-handling guidelines.
• Coordinate cross-functional reviews across business and technical domains and manage dependencies across countries and releases.
• Support country teams through workshops, guidance, FAQs, joint design and rollout support.
• Use Thailand/BKK as a pilot to validate standards, capture lessons learned and separate common from local requirements.
• Convert validated pilot outputs into Regional standards, supporting approval, publication, version control, training and deployment to subsequent countries.
• Manage and prioritise the CoE improvement backlog and work with CPM and country teams on continuous improvement.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in business/IT consulting, system implementation, transformation delivery, process design or CoE/standardization activities, preferably in banking or financial services.
• Experience developing or improving methodologies, operating models, governance frameworks, templates, quality criteria, RACI or decision rights.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and dependencies across business, architecture, data, infrastructure, testing, migration, cutover, compliance and customer domains.
• Experience supporting pilot implementation, lessons learned, standardization and multi-country rollouts.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation and stakeholder management skills.

Required skills

• Advantageous: Core Banking implementation, regional rollout, Target Operating Model or playbook development.
• Advantageous: Banking domain knowledge (Trade Finance, Lending, Payments, Cash Management, Treasury & Markets, Deposits, Accounting, Compliance, UAT, Testing, Migration).
• Advantageous: Trade360, Oracle FLEXCUBE, Murex, ACBS, Finastra GPP or Oracle ERP.
• Strong Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel skills.