Lending Tech SME

Job Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

•Define and execute the delivery strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market-specific needs across diverse geographies.

•Develop delivery plans that balance scalability, quality, and efficiency while addressing regional and operational nuances.

•Ensure compliance with global and regional regulatory requirements, accounting for the complexities of multi-geography delivery.

Cross-Functional and Geographical Coordination

•Lead cross-functional teams spanning multiple geographies, including onshore and offshore delivery centers, fostering seamless collaboration.

•Align delivery priorities across regions, ensuring that global objectives integrate effectively with local market requirements.

•Navigate cultural and operational differences to optimize team synergy and knowledge-sharing across time zones.

Risk and Delivery Management

•Identify, assess, and mitigate delivery risks proactively, addressing challenges specific to multi-geography implementations.

•Monitor milestones, budgets, and dependencies across regions and offshore centers, ensuring alignment and accountability.

•Resolve escalations swiftly, minimizing disruptions to delivery timelines and quality outcomes.

Stakeholder Management

•Maintain strong communication with stakeholders and sponsors, providing transparent updates on progress and challenges related to the Lending implementation.

•Manage vendor and partner relationships onshore and offshore, ensuring delivery commitments are met and integration between lending modules and the core banking system is optimized.

Job Requirements:

•Extensive experience leading large-scale, multi-market platform implementations in the banking or financial services sector with a strong focus on Lending

•Demonstrated ability to manage delivery outcomes, including scope, quality, risk, and budget, while balancing competing priorities

•Strong leadership skills with a track record of aligning diverse teams and driving accountability

•Deep understanding of Payments systems and banking technologies, experience with ACBS preferred

•Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting delivery progress to senior executives

•Proficiency in managing culturally diverse teams and navigating complexities of multi-country implementations