Responsibilities:
- Lead the implementation of Finacle Payments Engine (FPE) platform, including successful integration of the platform with bank systems.
- Leverage domain and technical expertise to set direction and drive project execution. Foresee and proactively address risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Work with business, operations, internal technology teams, and with vendor partners to ensure successful project delivery.
- Act as the primary liaison between the vendor and internal technology teams.
- Manage stakeholder expectations with respect to scope, deliverables, and timelines.
- Coordinate and facilitate routines to support delivery – e.g. kick-offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, tollgates, etc.
- Ensure execution and delivery meets stakeholder expectations in terms of the functionality, quality, timeline, and cost.
- Ensure Enterprise Change Management and other policy requirements for technology solutions are met for the epics/features delivered.
- Measure delivery, maturity, and performance and review the metrics to identify improvement opportunities. Partner with multiple, cross-functional stakeholders across GPS, GT&O and other teams to drive development of execution plans to enable realization of GPE strategies. Execution plans outline multi-year strategic outcomes (based on target state) and the activities required to support achievement of those outcomes.
- Summarize, create presentations, and present initiative-specific, compelling, executive-ready presentations conveying the strategy, business case, and recommendations to Senior and Executive Leadership across product, operations, technology, and compliance.
- Contributes to the technology strategy for Finacle Payments Engine (FPE) platform.
- Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
- People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
- Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
- Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
- Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team-work.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, CIS, MIS, Engineering (any), or related with experience in developing applications in the banking or finance industry
Foundational Skills:
- Senior Leader, passionate towards strategy, team building, application integration, corporate payments, technology architecture, resiliency, reporting and collaboration.
- Minimum 08 years of technology delivery experience, with proven ability to manage delivery of complex, integration projects in a matrix organization.
- Finacle core banking implementation and integration experience in a global bank setup.
- Sound knowledge of the Finacle Data Model and the Finacle core banking platform version 11.x.
- Must have played a significant role in implementation of at least 5 or more Finacle implementations in ASIA / EMEA region.
- Strong technology delivery capability and leadership from solution design, E2E program/project delivery to problem solving.
- Hands on delivery experience working with Agile teams and in implementing Scaled Agile/Scrum/Kanban/DevOps practices.
- Experience working with product and service vendors, and with the onshore-offshore delivery model.
- Execution and result oriented. Strong aptitude for critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making.
- Knowledge of the Payments domain and experience in applying this knowledge to drive operational experience and process improvement is a plus.
- Expertise in executive communications and stakeholder relationship management. Capable of articulating the project status and gaining alignment with stakeholders
Desired Skills:
- Structured Thinking : Being able to understand business processes, identify problems, and take a logical approach on how we could drive improvement.
- Inclusive and Inspiring: Seeking a motivated team player who values collaboration, celebrating shared success and who actively seek and appreciate diverse thoughts and backgrounds.
- Authentic and Passionate: Seeking a highly engaged teammate whose intensity and intentions align and are enthusiastic about the work we are doing for our clients and in our communities.
- Innovative and Curious: Seeking a teammate with out-of-the box ideas and solutions, who embraces change with a future-forward mindset, and are looking to challenge the status quo.
- Intellectual Curiosity : Ability to take on complex business problems and learn about new approaches that can drive value to the organization.
- Confident and Agile: Seeking a very strong communicator who values giving and receiving feedback, easily builds relationships, and who is a quick thinker, flexible, and always learning and sharing knowledge
- Tenacity: Proactive and resilient in pursuing objectives despite challenges, ability to multitask and balance competing priorities
- Analytical: Strong analytical skills sufficient to identify trends/opportunities within financial/market data and to locate/interpret competitive information.
- High EQ: Collaborative team-player with high emotional intelligence. Strong influencing skills, coaches and mentors’ others, potential for executive leadership
- Communication Skills : Proven ability to communicate complex topics and translate between business and IT stakeholders, Strong problem-solving skills, including situation analysis, problem identification, and solution recommendation strategies.
- Growth Mindset - demonstrates curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.
: 10:30am to 07:30pm