Project Manager - Temenos Transact / Core Banking

About the role

The Project Manager for Temenos Transact / Core Banking coordinates and monitors all projects, initiatives and changes affecting the Transact platform. Reporting to the Operations organisation, the role is the central coordination point for the Transact perimeter, aligning business priorities, IT streams, Transact teams, Operations and other stakeholders. It provides a consolidated view of the Transact roadmap, dependencies, risks, capacity constraints and delivery status, with a strong focus on execution, anticipation and issue resolution.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain a consolidated view of all Transact projects and initiatives, including roadmap, milestones, releases, scope, owners, planning, dependencies and delivery targets, and resolve project conflicts and overlaps.
• Follow projects from assessment through design, build, testing, deployment and post-production, coordinate contributors, manage cross-stream dependencies and escalate blockers.
• Establish a governance framework, prepare consolidated reports on status, risks, issues, decisions and capacity, and run regular project reviews.
• Maintain a RAID log, identify critical dependencies and bottlenecks, and define mitigation and recovery plans.
• Coordinate with release and operational processes, assess production readiness, track cutover and post-go-live actions.
• Act as the main coordination point between Operations, IT streams, business teams, architecture, testing, release management, production/support teams and external partners, resolving cross-stream issues proactively.

Required profile

• Proven experience managing complex IT projects or portfolios, with strong governance, planning and dependency management.
• Ability to manage several initiatives at once and to challenge plans, commitments and priorities.
• Experience in banking IT, preferably wealth management or private banking; good understanding of core banking platforms and banking operations, releases, testing and production.
• Leadership: strong stakeholder management, influence without direct authority, and comfort with senior management.

Required skills

• Project management, RAID management and dependency management.
• Good to have: knowledge of Temenos Transact / T24.

Travel is expected mainly from Singapore to India and potentially to Europe. The position reports to the Operations Division Head with a dotted line to the Program Manager.