Project Manager

  • Full-time

Job Description

We are currently looking for Project Manager for our UAE operations.

Required Skills & Experience

Experience:  4–6 years

  • Solid project management experience in financial services or large transformation programmes.
  • Strong grounding in PMO practices, documentation, and structured delivery.
  • Proficiency in PowerPoint (slide creation, structured updates) and Excel (trackers, logs, reporting).
  • Experience managing multi‑stakeholder coordination and onboarding activities.
  • Strong communication, documentation, and organisational skills.
  • PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification is an advantage.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Governance & Delivery Management

  • Maintain core PMO artefacts (charter, governance model, RACI, plans, registers).
  • Run programme cadence: steering committees, working groups, decisions, and escalations.
  • Track progress, risks, dependencies, and ensure timely sign‑offs.
  • Prepare high‑quality PowerPoint decks, decision papers, and structured updates.

Stakeholder & Communication Management

  • Coordinate with regulatory, industry, and internal stakeholders.
  • Manage structured communication, expectations, and readiness across all parties.
  • Present updates clearly and confidently using PPT storytelling and executive‑ready slides.

Onboarding & Readiness

  • Oversee business onboarding activities for participating institutions.
  • Ensure frameworks, playbooks, and readiness criteria are applied consistently.
  • Support training, readiness assessments, and issue resolution.

Cross‑Functional Coordination

  • Align business and technical workstreams with the platform provider.
  • Support joint activities such as training, onboarding preparation, and limited UAT coordination.
  • Ensure clarity of roles, ownership, and dependencies across teams.

Transition to Operations

  • Facilitate the setup of operational support functions (L1/L2).
  • Ensure structures, resources, and processes are defined for BAU operations.
  • Track and manage the transition from programme delivery into steady‑state.

Personal Attributes

  • Highly organised, structured, and detail‑oriented.
  • Strong ownership mindset with the ability to anticipate issues.
  • Mature stakeholder handling and cross‑functional collaboration.
  • Calm, solution‑oriented, and comfortable in high‑visibility environments.
  • Able to work with discipline, clarity, and consistency in a regulated ecosystem.

Joining time frame: 2 weeks (maximum 1 month)