Senior Manager, Banking & Financial Services Technology Transformation

Responsibilities: Core Banking Business Transformation Leadership • Lead end to end core banking transformation programs, driving client outcomes, governance, and delivery excellence. • Advise on strategy, operating models, and roadmaps across Payments, Lending, Trade Finance, Deposits, Accounts, Risk, and Finance. • Provide trusted advisory support to client executives on transformation risks, prioritization, trade-offs, sequencing, and benefits realization. • Manage multi stream programs, align stakeholders, and ensure decisions are anchored in business value, customer impact, and regulatory compliance. • Facilitate executive forums, workshops, and steering committees to accelerate transformation. Business Development • Build senior client relationships and originate opportunities in core banking, digital banking, payments, lending, and trade finance. • Lead proposals, RFPs, solution design, and commercial discussions. • Collaborate with vendors and partners to shape joint offerings and bring market insights into client engagements. • Contribute to practice growth through thought leadership, methodologies, and go to market assets. People Leadership • Lead and coach consulting teams, fostering a high performance culture. • Guide delivery excellence in roadmaps, operating models, business cases, and executive presentations. • Share best practices and build firm capability in banking technology transformation. Requirements: • Bachelor's degree in any relevant field. • Minimum 10 years of professional experience in a consulting firm, with significant experience serving banking or financial services clients. • Proven track record leading large-scale banking transformation, core banking transformation, operating model transformation, or technology-enabled business transformation engagements. • Strong consulting background with experience in client advisory, engagement leadership, business transformation, stakeholder management, and executive-level communication. • Deep understanding of banking business domains such as Payments, Lending, Trade Finance, Loans, Deposits, Accounts, Customer, Channels, Operations, Risk, Finance, and related enterprise functions. • Experience managing complex, multi-workstream transformation programs involving business, operations, technology, risk, compliance, finance, and external partner stakeholders. • Ability to translate business strategy and client priorities into transformation roadmaps, target operating models, capability designs, implementation plans, and value realization frameworks. • Experience leading senior client workshops, steering committees, executive updates, stakeholder alignment sessions, and decision-making forums. • Strong track record in proposal development, RFP responses, opportunity origination, solution shaping, commercial discussions, and pipeline development. • Experience developing business cases, transformation roadmaps, operating model designs, governance structures, change management approaches, and executive-level deliverables • Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop consulting teams while ensuring high-quality client deliverables. • Strong executive presence, structured problem-solving skills, business acumen, and ability to operate effectively in complex client environments. • Experience engaging senior stakeholders such as CIO, COO, CTO, CDO, Heads of Transformation, Operations, Payments, Lending, and business unit leaders will be advantageous.