16116 - PMO Lead for Corporate Credit Origination

ParamInfo; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

ParamInfo in Dubai seeks a PMO Lead for Corporate Credit Origination to govern and drive end-to-end delivery of a major banking platform project. You will shape governance, manage integrated plans, monitor progress, and provide clear executive reporting across design, testing, migration and readiness phases.

The role requires extensive banking tech delivery experience, strong stakeholder management and the ability to challenge delivery status with evidence-based insights.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years in banking technology delivery with PMO/governance exposure.
• Experience leading PMO for major banking platform implementation, preferably credit or lending.
• Strong planning, dependencies, RAID, change control, and executive reporting skills.
• Experience handling multi-stream, multi-vendor delivery including data migration and cutover.
• Understanding of corporate credit lifecycle, facilities, collateral, and documentation.
• Ability to translate delivery data into executive insights for governance.
• Bachelor degree in technology, engineering, business, or finance; PMP/PRINCE2 preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the PMO for the Corporate Credit Origination System implementation.
• Establish governance, forums, RACI, stage gates, reporting standards, and document controls.
• Own the integrated master plan, milestones, critical path, resources, dependencies, and baseline.
• Govern scope, change, RAID, decisions, benefits, budget, forecast, vendor milestones and evidence.
• Produce executive reporting, forecasts, decision papers, recovery actions and escalations.
• Coordinate assurance across design, testing, data migration, security, and readiness.
• Coach project managers to improve governance discipline and reporting quality.
• Manage cross-stream and vendor dependencies, issue resolution, and governance decisions.

Skills

PMO Lead for Corporate Credit Orig.

Banking technology

RAID

corporate credit lifecycle

Stakeholders

complex transformations

integrated planning

Job description

16116 - PMO Lead for Corporate Credit Origination

Job Title: PMO Lead for Corporate Credit Origination

Job Location- Dubai

Job Description:

Lead the Project Management Office for the Corporate Credit Origination System, establishing the governance, integrated planning, controls, assurance and executive reporting required for successful end-to-end implementation. Provide independent visibility of delivery performance, challenge project and workstream leads, coordinate cross-project dependencies and ensure compliance with the company Project Management Methodology, approved business case and applicable control standards.

Key Result Areas

• Responsible for leading the PMO and enabling controlled, transparent and predictable project delivery:
• Establish project governance, forums, RACI, stage gates, reporting standards and document controls.
• Own the integrated master plan, milestones, critical path, resources, dependencies and baseline.
• Govern scope, change, RAID, decisions, benefits, budget, forecast, vendor milestones and acceptance evidence.
• Provide forward-looking executive reporting, forecasts, decision papers, recovery actions and escalations.
• Coordinate assurance across design, testing, defects, data migration, security, operational readiness, cutover and hypercare.
• Set PMO standards and coach project and workstream managers to improve governance discipline and reporting quality.
• Manage cross-stream and vendor dependencies, issue resolution, recovery plans and governance decisions.
• Govern acceptance, BAU transition, benefits ownership, financial and contractual closure, lessons learned and archiving.

Decision Making Authority & Responsibility

• Set and enforce PMO standards, governance cadence, reporting requirements, planning controls and quality criteria within the approved project framework.
• Challenge delivery status, forecasts and evidence; require corrective plans and escalated missed commitments or unresolved dependencies.
• Recommend stage-gate, funding, baseline, change, readiness and closure decisions to the appropriate governance forum.
• Withhold PMO assurance or recommend deferral where delivery evidence, controls, quality or readiness do not meet approved criteria.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• At least 10 years of banking technology delivery experience, including 3 years leading PMO or governance for complex transformations.
• Proven experience leading a PMO for a major banking platform implementation, preferably corporate credit or lending.
• Strong command of integrated planning, dependencies, RAID, change, financial and vendor controls, assurance and executive reporting.
• Experience governing multi-million-budget, multi-stream and multi-vendor delivery, including migration, testing, cutover and readiness.
• Strong understanding of the corporate credit lifecycle, approval controls, facilities, limits, collateral and documentation.
• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders, convert delivery data into executive insight and drive governance discipline.
• Bachelor degree in technology, engineering, business, finance or a related discipline. PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent certification preferred.

Required Skills

Skill

Years

Months

PMO Lead for Corporate Credit Origination 10 0

Banking technology 10 0

RAID 10 0

corporate credit lifecycle 10 0

Stakeholders 10 0

complex transformations 10 0

integrated planning 10 0