Project Manager, Banking & Finance, Business Systems & Technology Analysis

• Own the plan for each programme milestones dependencies decisions and risks in one place people actually use
• Own the relationship be the person the bank calls first
• Run the weekly rhythm with bank counter parties working groups steercos minutes and actions that close
• Get into the detail when things slip and stay with it until it moves
• Spot expansion inside live programmes and turn it into scoped follow-on work
• Manage approval-linked milestones and go-live gates with our compliance team
• Surface risk early and arrive with options

One programme plan and weekly cadence live and adopted by every counter party The first bank milestone you inherit delivered on its date A RAID log both sides trust more than their inbox

• You have at least 6 years in project or programme management, including at least 4 years delivering with banks or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia
• You have held senior client relationships and grown an account, not just administered a plan
• You are proactive to the point of hands‑on, and when a workstream stalls you get into the detail and move it, whatever the org chart says
• You bring people with you, and internal and client teams follow your cadence because it works, not because it is mandated
• You understand core systems, APIs and integration delivery well enough to test an estimate and spot slippage a month before it lands
• Arabic is a must, and fluent English is strongly preferred
• You are based in Riyadh or ready to relocate

• Delivery experience with banks elsewhere in the GCC
• Open banking, lending or payments domain experience
• Relationships inside GCC banks that you built and kept
• You are fluent with AI tooling and current on what the latest LLMs can and cannot do, using them to run programmes faster while knowing when output needs a human pass
• Experience taking a regulated product through go-live with SAMA or CBB supervised institutions