Cutover Manager - Private Banking

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• Experts in banking, capital markets, payments and asset and wealth management.
• Trusted advisors in core banking, securities and wealth management transformation, regulatory change, risk management and technology modernization.
• A company dedicated to continuous development and excited to welcome top talent to help us drive innovation and deliver lasting results.
• A business built on agility, collaboration, and entrepreneurial spirit.

We are looking for experienced Cutover Managers
to join a major core banking transformation for a Swiss private bank
. As part of the central Cutover team, you will help plan and orchestrate the transition from the bank’s legacy environment to its new core banking platform.

This is a highly cross-functional role spanning business, technology, data migration, infrastructure, applications, testing, operations, and vendors. You will help turn a complex transformation into a controlled, executable and auditable cutover plan
.

Successful Cutover Managers combine a strong understanding of the overall transformation with the ability to work through detailed activities and dependencies. You will bring structure to ambiguity, connect information across work streams, identify gaps early, and drive clear ownership and decisions.

Develop and maintain the integrated cutover plan and detailed execution runbook
, coordinating activities across business, technology, data, infrastructure, applications, operations, and third parties.

Identify and manage dependencies, critical paths, prerequisites, constraints, and execution risks
, challenging sequencing and timings and identifying opportunities to pre-stage, parallelize, and optimize activities.

Facilitate cutover planning workshops, dependency sessions and walkthroughs, while coordinating dress rehearsals and mock cutovers
, capturing lessons learned and driving improvements.

Track cutover readiness
, including milestones, checkpoints, sign-offs, entry and exit criteria, and go/no-go decisions, working closely with migration and reconciliation teams on data sequencing and time-sensitive banking processes.

Support the Cutover Command Centre during go-live, providing clear execution visibility, managing escalations and deviations, and coordinating the transition into hyper-care and stabilization with clear ownership of issues and operational risks.

Experience in cutover, transition, release, migration, or complex implementation management
within large-scale transformation programmes, with proven experience developing integrated cutover plans and execution runbooks involving multiple systems, teams, work streams, and vendors.

Strong understanding of dependencies, critical paths, readiness, governance, and go/no-go processes
, with experience coordinating dress rehearsals, migrations, and production go-lives.

Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills, with the ability to work effectively across business and technology teams
and communicate clearly with senior stakeholders and governance…