Change that stands up to scrutiny.
Technology change in Singapore’s banks, hedge funds and insurers has to work for the business, the operations team and the regulator at once. The right change and transformation professionals make sure it does, turning investment into systems people adopt and programmes leadership can report on with confidence.
We specialise in technology change and transformation recruitment across Singapore’s financial services sector, connecting banks, hedge funds and global insurers with business analysts, IT change managers, PMO specialists, product managers, project and programme managers, and scrum, agile and delivery professionals.
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Our consultants each specialise in one area rather than working as generalists. In technology change and transformation, that means keeping our market knowledge current every day, tracking how platforms such as Jira and core banking systems are reshaping teams, how new roles like AI governance leads are defined, and how pay is moving across Singapore’s financial sector.
That focus extends into executive search for heads of transformation, COO-office change leaders and senior delivery executives, where influence across business, technology and risk matters as much as delivery.
The strongest hires add value beyond their job description. Delivery capability comes first, from agile and structured governance to requirements, migration planning and stakeholder reporting, alongside three qualities that build trust:
- Judgement: knowing when to adapt a framework and when to hold to it
- Credibility: earning confidence across front office, operations, technology and risk
- Candour: reporting progress and risk as they stand
Every candidate is screened by a market-expert consultant, past titles and certifications, to the programmes they have shaped and the decisions they have owned.
We recruit across the change and delivery lifecycle in financial services:
- Business Analysis: technical and functional business analysts, including hybrid PM/BA profiles, with the domain knowledge to work alongside trading, operations and finance stakeholders.
- IT Change Management: IT change managers, adoption leads and systems transformation specialists, covering both service change control and business-facing adoption.
- PMO: PMO analysts, PMO leads and portfolio managers who provide the governance, reporting and financial control your programmes rely on.
- Product Management: product managers and product owners for digital banking features, client platforms and UX/UI roadmaps.
- Project & Programme Management: project managers, programme managers and delivery leads for core banking, trading, regulatory and AI programmes.
- Scrum, Agile & Delivery: scrum masters, agile coaches and delivery managers for teams adopting or scaling agile ways of working.
If you’re building change capability inside a bank, hedge fund or insurer, we look at team shape and culture as closely as individual skills. We’ll ask whether the role covers Singapore alone or a regional portfolio, who it reports into across business and technology, and how much programme governance it owns. That helps us decide with you which roles should be permanent, where contract support fits a particular programme phase, and when a senior appointment calls for executive search.
If you’re a consultancy or professional services firm resourcing financial services programmes, we keep the brief skills-led. Candidates need to be ready for client environments from the start, often with specific domain experience such as payments, wealth or regulatory reporting. We work to your client’s requirements on start dates, contract length, extension options and rate structure.
We offer permanent, contract and executive search hiring.
We support financial institutions and multinational corporations where technology change carries commercial and regulatory weight:
- Global banks: core banking, payments, wealth and regulatory programmes, often run from Singapore across the region.
- Hedge funds: trading, risk and operations change, where delivery has to keep pace with the front office.
- Global insurers: policy, claims and distribution platforms, alongside data and AI programmes.
- Fintech: fintech and digital teams within financial institutions, building new products alongside established platforms.
- Multinational corporations: FMCG and consumer goods businesses and professional services firms delivering finance, treasury and systems transformation.
A specialist recruiter brings an understanding of how change is delivered in financial services to every stage of hiring. Our consultants explore what candidates have delivered, how they managed governance and risk, and how they brought stakeholders with them, before anyone reaches your interview stage.
We share current salary insight, realistic availability and a view of how similar profiles are moving in Singapore, so you can plan with confidence. Our network of 900,000+ candidates gives each search a broad starting point, and our consultants’ knowledge of banking, hedge fund and insurance environments shapes the brief, the search and the shortlist.
Tech change & transformation market intelligence
In Singapore’s financial institutions, agile delivery and structured governance can run side by side within the same programme. The hires who add most value move comfortably between the two and understand how technology risk management expectations shape delivery. On the tooling side, look for confidence with Jira or similar planning tools, alongside experience of the core banking, trading or policy platforms your programme is built around.
Our consultants explore how candidates have applied frameworks in practice, beyond the certificates they hold. We ask when they tailored an approach to a regulated environment, how they handled a re-scoped programme and how they kept risk and compliance aligned from the start. Those answers shape the shortlist you receive, so your interviews can focus on fit and impact.
Change and transformation pay in Singapore’s financial sector reflects programme scale, regulatory exposure and how much of the region a role covers. Programme leadership and agile delivery tend to sit towards the upper end, with business analysis and IT change management close behind.
As a guide, annual total compensation for professionals with four to eight years’ experience is:
- Project & Programme Management: SGD 120,000 - 180,000
- Scrum, Agile & Delivery: SGD 110,000 - 165,000
- Business Analysis: SGD 100,000 - 150,000
- IT Change Management: SGD 95,000 - 145,000
- PMO: SGD 80,000 - 120,000
Contract engagements are priced on a rate rather than a total compensation package, so they don’t compare directly with these figures.
For tailored benchmarking by role, seniority and sector, including product management, visit our benchmarking page.
AI is making governance part of the delivery plan. More than 30 financial institutions now run AI functions in Singapore, and each new use case brings processes to redesign, controls to document and teams to bring along.
The regulator’s direction adds to this. Proposed supervisory guidelines on AI risk management build on the existing FEAT principles and set expectations for board oversight, AI inventories and lifecycle controls. For hiring, that points towards business analysts who can map where AI is used, PMO specialists who can track it, and change managers who can build AI literacy across teams. New roles such as AI governance are also emerging, sometimes drawn from compliance and technology security backgrounds.
When you’re interviewing, asking candidates how they’ve governed an AI use case from approval to live can tell you a lot about how they’ll handle the next one.
Growth in Singapore’s financial sector has been broad, spanning banking, insurance, capital markets, asset management and wealth management. Financial institutions remain keen to hire in wealth management, financial advisory and compliance, and each of those areas brings its own technology change, from client onboarding and advisory platforms to compliance tooling and reporting.
For change leaders, that means programmes increasingly cross business lines rather than sitting within one. Professionals who have delivered across front office, operations and control functions are well placed, and being clear about which part of that picture your role covers helps us focus the search.
Specialisms
We cover key tech specialisms within financial services that help fuel transformation and growth within business.
Skills
Our specialist recruitment consultants work with key skills areas and niche fintech communities, building their knowledge, network and experience to deliver excellent service to candidates and clients.
