Implementation Senior Consultant: Banking

About Cornerstone Advisors

Cornerstone Advisors is a nationally recognized management and technology consulting firm serving banks, credit unions, and financial services organizations across the United States. For more than two decades, we have partnered with executive leadership teams to solve complex business challenges, optimize operations, and deliver innovative strategies that drive measurable results. Our culture is built on collaboration, integrity, innovation, and a commitment to helping both our clients and our employees succeed.

Cornerstone Advisors is a nationally recognized management and technology consulting firm serving banks, credit unions, and financial services organizations across the United States. For more than two decades, we have partnered with executive leadership teams to solve complex business challenges, optimize operations, and deliver innovative strategies that drive measurable results. Our culture is built on collaboration, integrity, innovation, and a commitment to helping both our clients and our employees succeed.

The Senior Implementation Consultant leads the successful delivery of complex system implementation engagements for banks and credit unions. This role directs implementations of core banking systems, digital platforms, payment solutions, and loan origination systems, with accountability for project governance, client readiness, and delivery quality.

The Senior Consultant applies advanced expertise in banking operations, project management, and business analysis to guide client decisions, coordinate cross‑functional teams, and resolve complex implementation challenges. This position serves as a trusted advisor to client leaders, internal project teams, and third‑party vendors while helping ensure engagements remain aligned with scope, schedule, budget, and strategic objectives.

• Lead mid‑sized to large, complex implementation engagements and provide oversight across multiple work streams.
• Direct joint project kickoff and governance sessions with clients and solution vendors to establish alignment on scope, decision rights, roles, milestones, and escalation paths.
• Design and facilitate discovery and future‑state workshops that identify process improvements, operating impacts, dependencies, and business requirements.
• Develop, validate, and manage integrated project plans, including tasks, dependencies, timelines, resource needs, critical paths, and stakeholder commitments.
• Lead coordination with third‑party vendors on interfaces, integrations, testing, conversion, readiness, and deployment activities.
• Monitor engagement performance, resource utilization, budget, quality, and milestone achievement; recommend corrective actions when results vary from plan.
• Anticipate, assess, and manage complex project risks, issues, and decisions; facilitate resolution and elevate matters that require executive action.
• Maintain accountability for project scope, schedule, budget, governance, and deliverable quality while managing client expectations.
• Review and approve implementation artifacts, including requirements, test plans, training materials, conversion strategies, readiness assessments, executive reports, and decision logs.
• Lead mock conversions, cutover planning, go‑live readiness reviews, and post‑implementation stabilization activities.

• Advanced knowledge of core banking systems, digital banking platforms, payments, loan origination systems, or related financial technology solutions.
• Strong understanding of bank and credit union operations, including deposits, lending, payments, and back‑office processes.
• Demonstrated project leadership with the ability to manage complex work streams,…