Senior Consultant/ Associate Manager, Regional Operations Planning (for Banking Industry Project)
Senior Consultant/ Associate Manager, Regional Operations Planning (for Banking Industry Project)
ABeam Consulting5-7 Years
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Job Description
About Us:
ABeam Consulting is a global professional services company that specializes in delivering business transformation and technology solutions to clients across a wide range of industries. With a global presence and over 9000 employees worldwide we aim to be the transformation partner of choice for all of our clients.
Responsibilities:
We regret only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
ABeam Consulting is a global professional services company that specializes in delivering business transformation and technology solutions to clients across a wide range of industries. With a global presence and over 9000 employees worldwide we aim to be the transformation partner of choice for all of our clients.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and oversee the Local Settlement MX Migration project following the official announcement expected in early 2026, including requirements confirmation, impact analysis on operations and systems, system development, and testing.
- Coordinate with branches to ensure ownership of planning tasks, including potential buddy bank testing if requested by local authorities.
- Manage the ISO20022 Hybrid Address Format System Enhancement and SWIFT Standards Release 2026 projects, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and dependencies across branches.
- Identify, escalate, and resolve delays or risks, while preparing and consolidating weekly or monthly project status reports for stakeholders.
- Facilitate communication and issue resolution by coordinating cross-functional teams such as IT, Compliance, and APAC branches.
- Create clear and impactful deliverables in PowerPoint and Excel to visualize project progress and provide stakeholders with concise reporting materials.
- Organize issues and discussion points, compare potential solutions, and prepare decision-support materials for clients.
- Analyse information required for decision-making and present findings using graphs, charts, and other visual formats.
- Bachelor's degree in any related fields.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in similar roles involving stakeholder coordination within a financial institution, preferably banking.
- Demonstrated proactive communication and relationship-building skills, actively engaging with bank staff, local site personnel, and stakeholders to maintain frequent communication and foster strong working relationships that support consultation and alignment.
- Proven self-driven project management capability, independently identifying key issues, engaging stakeholders, driving tasks forward, and preparing materials to support decision-making, even when counterparts are not deeply involved in daily operations.
- Ability to prepare structured materials tailored for multiple audiences, including progress reports for management, operational documentation for staff, and coordination materials for stakeholders.
- Strong issue structuring and problem management skills, with the ability to analyze background, root causes, impacts, action plans, and decision points beyond simple task tracking.
- Business-oriented PMO and project execution capability, ensuring alignment of system-related tasks with user-side and operational requirements to drive projects in line with business operations.
- Effective review and quality assurance capability, providing clear instructions to junior staff, reviewing deliverables, ensuring quality, and supplementing external communication when necessary.
- Good communication skills in English are required. Proficiency in Japanese language will be an added advantage to support coordination and reporting with headquarters, FCCD, and Japanese-speaking stakeholders across different regions.
- A business process improvement mindset, with the ability to identify improvement opportunities, prioritize issues, and propose solutions beyond basic operational support.
We regret only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

