Project Manager Digital Banking

VAM Systems; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Dubai seeks an experienced Project Manager to manage IT projects efficiently within scope and budget. Responsibilities include coordinating with vendors, managing project risks, and supporting business units. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, experience in vendor management, and the ability to track project tasks effectively. Joining time frame is 2 weeks to 1 month.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing IT projects efficiently within scope and budget.
• Strong vendor relationship management skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Manage IT projects efficiently and deliver on time.
• Coordinate with vendors and stakeholders to document requirements.
• Track communication and control project risks and issues.

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Vendor management

Communication skills

Technical support

Job description

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

Key Responsibilities

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.

Key Accountabilities of the role

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)