Senior Project Manager | Banking| (One Year Contract)

Overview

We are seeking an experienced, skilled Senior Project Manager to join our organization. In this position, you will be responsible for collaborating with project stakeholders to ensure timely delivery, adherence to scope, and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Manage assigned projects according to established PMO policies and guidelines.
• Coordinate with project stakeholders, ensuring timely delivery, adherence to scope, and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to perform thorough business requirement analysis.
• Prepare comprehensive Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) for projects such as and not limited to Middleware, MB/IB, API Gateway, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, PowerBI, Core Banking integrations and other subsystems integrations with core.
• Contribute to the formulation and enhancement of PMO policies, procedures & templates.
• Collaborate in the development of effective change management strategies, ensuring smooth transitions during project implementations.
• Comprehensive Business Requirement Documents (BRDs) for specified projects.
• Well-structured RFQs, RFIs, and RFPs for the bidding process.
• Evaluation reports and recommendations for vendor/partner selection.
• Updated and refined PMO and change management policies, procedures and templates.
• Effective project management plans and reports for assigned projects included and not limited to project schedules.
• Management documents and presentations for senior management as required.
• Knowledge sharing sessions and training materials for internal employees.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and knowledge transfer to internal bank employees working within the PMO, IT & Digital, and Transformation.
• Collaborate with the senior management team in setting project priorities and creating project portfolios.
• Assist in the preparation of management documents and reports related to project progress and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in project management.
• Must have experience of dealing with vendors in Oman and GCC market.
• Strong understanding of banking systems and new technologies in financial domain.
• Strong technical knowledge of banking systems and business processes such as core banking, channels, payment and card systems, treasury etc.
• Good understanding of SAFe Agile, Scrum or DevOps.
• Proven experience of business requirement analysis and drive the evaluation and selection process.
• Must be able to work effectively with stakeholders from all levels of the organization, especially with senior management.
• Must be able to communicate effectively in both written and verbal form.
• Must be able to work independently and as part of a team.

Essential skills

• PMP, Preferable Prince 2 Practitioner.
• ITIL Foundation, Preferable ITIL Intermediate.

Desired skills

• COBiT (Good to have).
• Lean Project Management (Good to have).