Location: Bengaluru or Pune (5 days WFO / Hybrid as per business need)
Work Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Experience Required: 8 14 Years (7+ relevant)
Compensation: INR 25,00,000 32,00,000 per annum
Job Overview
The Functional Project Manager Payments will lead complex, business-side transformation initiatives for large global banks, focusing on payments and trade finance. This is a functional/delivery PM role (not pure IT PM), driving endtoend project lifecycle, process improvement, and digital transformation, while managing senior stakeholders across geographies.
Key Responsibilities
- Own endtoend delivery of payments and trade finance transformation projects within global banking environments.
- Plan, track, and manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits.
- Lead functional change initiatives (not pure tech PM), including operating model, process, and policy changes.
- Drive digital transformation projects (at least 23 large digital deliveries in banks) in payments and related domains.
- Conduct change impact assessments and ensure effective communication and stakeholder alignment.
- Work closely with senior business stakeholders across regions; manage expectations, negotiations, and escalations.
- Prepare and present project status reports, steering decks, risk/issue logs, and resourcing plans.
- Champion Agile ways of working; align teams to Agile practices and cadences.
- Ensure projects deliver tangible business outcomes rather than purely consulting artefacts.
MustHave Skills & Profile
- Strong functional project management background in global banks.
- Deep banking domain understanding with global bank exposure (mandatory).
- Handson experience in Trade Finance and Payments (payments transformation, digital payments journeys, process change).
- Proven experience delivering transformation projects (business/functional), not just IT implementation.
- Strong core PM skills:
- Planning & tracking
- Risks & issues management
- Cost & benefits management
- Change impact assessment
- Reporting & resourcing
- 23+ digital project deliveries in large banks (payments/digital banking).
- Strong alignment with Agile ways of working (Scrum/Agile delivery).
- Experience working with senior and crossgeography stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, articulation, and negotiation skills.
Certifications & Education
- Musthave certifications: PMP, CSM, Agile, and PRINCE2.
- Education: MBA and/or B.Tech/BE preferred.
- 7+ years of relevant functional PM experience in global banking (overall 814 years).
