Project Manager - Core Banking (India)

As a Project Manager - Core Banking, you will lead and manage banking technology projects, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business objectives. You will oversee project planning, stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and financial discipline, while collaborating with cross functional teams to address both functional and technical challenges.

What You'll Do and How You'll Succeed

Project Leadership & Planning

• Lead and manage banking technology projects to ensure successful delivery.
• Oversee project planning, including work breakdown structure (WBS), resource allocation, and cost management.
• Ensure expense management, including run rate tracking, costing, and resourcing, to maintain financial discipline.

Stakeholder & Risk Management

• Manage stakeholders effectively, addressing risks and issues proactively.
• Propose alternative solutions to ensure project success.
• Centralize project information to facilitate data driven decision making and drive consensus among stakeholders.

Tools & Reporting

• Utilize tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Excel (for data mining), and PowerPoint to track progress, analyse data, and present insights.
• Deliver clear and compelling presentations to stakeholders and leadership.

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with teams to address functional areas (e.g., payments, loans) or technical challenges (e.g., architecture design, Java coding).
• Ensure alignment between business objectives and technical execution.

We'd Love to Hear From You If

Experience

• You have at least 10 years of experience in project lead or project manager roles within a banking technology environment.

Technical Expertise

• You have advanced stakeholder management, problem solving, and risk mitigation skills.
• You are hands on with WBS, Excel data mining, JIRA, and Confluence.
• You have strong presentation skills and can deliver clear, compelling insights using PowerPoint.
• You hold certifications such as PMP or PSM (preferred).

Ways of Working

• You communicate effectively with both technical and non technical stakeholders.
• You proactively address risks and issues with practical solutions.
• You collaborate across functions to ensure project success.
• You maintain financial discipline and operational control in project execution.
• You remain organised, detail oriented, and focused on delivering results.

Who We Are

Thakral One is a consulting and technology services company headquartered in Singapore, with a pan-Asian presence. We focus primarily around technology-driven consulting, adoption of value-added bespoke solutions, enabling enhanced decision support through data analytics, and embracing possibilities in the cloud. We are heavily inclined towards building capabilities collaboratively with clients and believe strongly in improving grounded and practical outcomes.

This approach is possible through our partnership with leading global technology providers and internal R&D teams. Our clients come from Financial Services, Banking, Telco, Government, Healthcare, and Consumer-oriented organisations.