Senior Project Manager

Dicetek LLC; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Dicetek LLC in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced Programme Manager to lead transformation, governance, and audit-remediation initiatives within a regulated environment. You will oversee cross-functional delivery across IT, Compliance, HR, and Audit, and drive governance structures and reporting.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, excellent communication, and proven ability to deliver complex programmes on time and within regulatory expectations, with hands-on use of Power BI,

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering transformation, governance, audit-remediation, or regulatory programmes within a regulated environment.
• Strong programme planning, dependency management, risk management, issue resolution, and governance reporting capabilities.
• Experience establishing governance forums, escalation processes, decision frameworks, and delivery controls.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including engagement with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of governance, compliance, audit, risk, policy management, and evidence-management practices.
• Experience managing programme documentation, audit evidence, action tracking, and closure readiness activities.
• Experience developing executive dashboards and management reporting using Power BI and Excel.
• Practical experience using JIRA and Confluence for programme management, tracking, and documentation.
• Strong communication, presentation, and executive-reporting skills.
• Ability to work independently and effectively manage delivery within complex and evolving environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and manage the delivery of complex transformation, governance, compliance, and audit-remediation programmes.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, decision logs, and action trackers.
• Coordinate delivery across Technology, IT GRC, HR, Compliance, Internal Audit, Procurement, and external stakeholders.
• Establish and manage governance forums, working groups, management reporting, and decision-making processes.
• Monitor programme progress, implementation readiness, risks, issues, dependencies, and closure activities.
• Manage resource onboarding, workstream coordination, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Maintain programme artefacts, evidence repositories, and audit-ready documentation.
• Prepare executive reporting, dashboards, and management updates to support decision-making; Monitor implementation readiness, completion status, dependencies, and closure evidence against agreed milestones.

Skills

Transformation delivery

Governance reporting

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Executive reporting

Audit remediation

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Independent delivery

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Power BI

Excel

Microsoft Project

SharePoint

Job description

e.g. Minimum 5 years Minimum 10 years of project or programme management experience, including at least 5 years delivering complex, cross-functional transformation or governance initiatives in banking or another regulated industry.

Years Of Experience

e.g. Minimum 5 years Minimum 10 years of project or programme management experience, including at least 5 years delivering complex, cross-functional transformation or governance initiatives in banking or another regulated industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and manage the delivery of complex transformation, governance, compliance, and audit-remediation programmes.
• Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, decision logs, and action trackers.
• Coordinate delivery across Technology, IT GRC, HR, Compliance, Internal Audit, Procurement, and external stakeholders.
• Establish and manage governance forums, working groups, management reporting, and decision-making processes.
• Monitor programme progress, implementation readiness, risks, issues, dependencies, and closure activities.
• Manage resource onboarding, workstream coordination, and transition to business-as-usual operations.
• Maintain programme artefacts, evidence repositories, and audit-ready documentation.
• Prepare executive reporting, dashboards, and management updates to support decision-making.Monitor implementation readiness, completion status, dependencies, and closure evidence against agreed milestones.

Required Skills

• Proven experience delivering transformation, governance, audit-remediation, or regulatory programmes within a regulated environment.
• Strong programme planning, dependency management, risk management, issue resolution, and governance reporting capabilities.
• Experience establishing governance forums, escalation processes, decision frameworks, and delivery controls.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including engagement with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of governance, compliance, audit, risk, policy management, and evidence-management practices.
• Experience managing programme documentation, audit evidence, action tracking, and closure readiness activities.
• Experience developing executive dashboards and management reporting using Power BI and Excel.
• Practical experience using JIRA and Confluence for programme management, tracking, and documentation.
• Strong communication, presentation, and executive-reporting skills.
• Ability to work independently and effectively manage delivery within complex and evolving environments.

Key Deliverables

• Integrated programme plan, milestones, dependencies, RAID log, decision log, and action tracker.
• Programme governance schedule, management packs, meeting minutes, and action follow-up.
• Executive dashboards, governance reporting, and decision-support materials.
• Resource, dependency, and workstream coordination plans.
• Programme artefact repository and evidence register.
• Regulatory and audit milestone tracker.
• Closure-readiness assessments and remediation tracking.
• Programme transition, handover, and closure documentation.
• Regulatory submission and supporting evidence pack. TION 3 – CERTIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Certifications

e.g. AWS Certified, PMP, CISSP, Azure, ITIL

PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent project / programme management certification preferred. Agile / SAFe and ITIL 4 Foundation are advantageous.

Preferred Tech Stack

• Microsoft 365
• Power BI
• Confluence
• Jira

Tools / Platforms

Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project or equivalent planning tool, SharePoint, Microsoft Office