PMO Professional - Banking

As an experienced PMO professional with 10 - 20 years of experience in Banking Transformation, Business Consulting, and Program Governance, your role will involve: - Driving program governance, planning, tracking, and execution of large-scale banking transformation initiatives. - Acting as a liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, product vendors, and senior leadership. - Leading business solutioning activities including requirement gathering, functional fit-gap analysis, and business scenario modeling. - Facilitating workshops, stakeholder discussions, and Accelerated Solution Design (ASD) sessions to define business and technology solutions. - Developing business cases, value realization frameworks, and performance metrics to measure program success and business outcomes. - Managing program risks, dependencies, issues, escalations, and governance processes across multiple workstreams. - Supporting digital transformation initiatives across retail banking, corporate banking, payments, CRM, trade finance, treasury, and wealth management functions. - Driving process improvement, operational excellence, and customer experience transformation initiatives. - Collaborating with product, business, and technology teams to evaluate and implement banking solutions and platforms. - Ensuring alignment with open banking standards, API-driven architectures, ecosystem integrations, and event-driven business models. - Preparing executive dashboards, steering committee updates, status reports, and management presentations. - Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, partners, and senior stakeholders while ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction. - Acting 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. As an experienced PMO professional with 10 - 20 years of experience in Banking Transformation, Business Consulting, and Program Governance, your role will involve: - Driving program governance, planning, tracking, and execution of large-scale banking transformation initiatives. - Acting as a liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, product vendors, and senior leadership. - Leading business solutioning activities including requirement gathering, functional fit-gap analysis, and business scenario modeling. - Facilitating workshops, stakeholder discussions, and Accelerated Solution Design (ASD) sessions to define business and technology solutions. - Developing business cases, value realization frameworks, and performance metrics to measure program success and business outcomes. - Managing program risks, dependencies, issues, escalations, and governance processes across multiple workstreams. - Supporting digital transformation initiatives across retail banking, corporate banking, payments, CRM, trade finance, treasury, and wealth management functions. - Driving process improvement, operational excellence, and customer experience transformation initiatives. - Collaborating with product, business, and technology teams to evaluate and implement banking solutions and platforms. - Ensuring alignment with open banking standards, API-driven architectures, ecosystem integrations, and event-driven business models. - Preparing executive dashboards, steering committee updates, status reports, and