Manager, Banking / Financial Services Technology Transformation (Japanese Speaking)

Location: Singapore

• Lead workstreams in Vietnam’s domestic payments modernization programs.
• Analyze and redesign payment processes, operating models, and controls.
• Assess impacts of ISO 20022 adoption and Finastra GPP implementation.
• Facilitate workshops, Fit-Gap analysis, and requirements clarification.
• Oversee deliverables, testing, migration, and operational readiness.

• Advise stakeholders on domestic payments, ISO 20022, and Finastra GPP.
• Translate complex requirements into clear recommendations and decision materials.
• Support senior leaders in steering committees and decision forums.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, and scope changes.

• Contribute to business development through proposals, RFPs, and client research.
• Develop methodologies, templates, and knowledge assets to strengthen practice.
• Support internal operations including resource planning and reporting.

• Lead consultants and analysts in project delivery.
• Coach junior team members and ensure quality of outputs.
• Capture and share project learnings across the practice.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum 10 years consulting experience, ideally within a leading consulting firm.
• Banking/financial services expertise with focus on Payments, Cash Management, Transaction Banking, or Core Banking.
• Strong knowledge of Vietnam payments including domestic transfers, interbank, instant, and bank to bank operations.
• ISO 20022 understanding covering message structures, data requirements, and transformation impacts.
• Finastra GPP experience or exposure to payment system implementation and modernization.
• Payments modernization background including hubs, ISO 20022 adoption, and operational transformation.
• Business analysis skills in requirements definition, Fit Gap, process design, issue management, UAT, and migration.
• Stakeholder engagement through workshops, interviews, and consensus building.
• Team leadership managing junior members, reviewing deliverables, and coordinating workstreams.
• Strong deliverable creation using PowerPoint and Excel for executive materials and project documentation.
• Problem solving and communication with proven issue management capability.
• Flexibility to contribute beyond client delivery, including sales support, proposals, and internal operations.
• Payments processing knowledge in routing, validation, exception handling, repair, reconciliation, accounting, settlement, sanctions screening, AML, and fraud monitoring.
• Transaction Banking expertise including Cash Management, Liquidity Management, and Treasury Operations.
• Vendor and partner collaboration with system integrators, product teams, and operations teams.
• Proposal and RFP support including client presentations, estimation assumptions, and solution options.
• Multilingual project experience in English or Vietnamese environments for stakeholder liaison.
• Japanese language proficiency is considered an advantage, as it supports effective communication with Japanese speaking clients and stakeholders.