Project Manager Digital Banking

We are currently looking for Project Manager for our UAE operations with the following Skill set and terms & conditions.

ROLE

PURPOSE:

Managing IT projects efficiently within scope, budget and on time delivery.

• Improve governance and reduce operational related risks. Leverage lessons learnt from previous and ongoing engagements.
• Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the completion of specific projects for an organization while ensuring these projects are on time, on budget, and within scope.
• Work with cross-functional teams to develop and document a common understanding of project requirements.
• Manage Projects and Major tasks rollout, coordinate with vendors, business users and other stakeholders to articulate and document business requirements & change requests.
• Manage projects within agreed governance structures and processes, to ensure consistency of approach and efficient use of resources.
• Defining the projects KPIs and measuring them throughout the project lifecycle.
• Determines how changing business needs will affect existing systems.
• Ability to work directly with Business units to develop user requirements and report specifications.
• Articulate and document business requirements for projects, change requests etc.
• Manage vendor service level and quality of development.
• Coordination between project and business teams during the execution of projects and tasks.
• Provide business with required technical support, assessments, and reports.
• Propose technical recommendations and improvements.
• Mitigate risks and close audit points if any on the applications and processes.
• Manage multiple initiatives and track projects/BAU requests/CRs to closure.
• Closely monitor the incidents tickets and problem tickets and close them before the breach of SLA.
• Understand the latest technology trends and provide improvement suggestion in the products.
• Review the vendor proposal and provide feedback on the same to ensure the completeness of the scope and quality.
• Provide periodic reports and monthly updates on the ongoing initiatives to business and PMO.

Track project tasks, schedule plan and delivery timelines.

• Facilitating infrastructure and environment relevant project requests.
• Initiate own and follow up on project internal tickets/actions and approvals until controls.
• Maintain project financials, invoices, timesheets, contracts, and renewals.
• Prepare project status reports or other relevant reports in timely manner.
• Track communication and control project risks and issues until closure.
• Keep close contact with key project stakeholders.
• Document project progress and [Project file, Project Log].
• Ability to work independently and effectively as a team player.
• Vendor relationship management skills are strongly required.
• Accurately and clearly convey timely information appropriate to target audience.
• Strong communication skills including written and oral presentation skills.

Joining time frame: 2 weeks (maximum 1 month)