Strategic Projects Lead – Global Payments

MiFinity Group; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

MiFinity, a leading global payments provider based in Dublin, seeks an experienced Project Manager to coordinate cross‑functional initiatives across product and operations. You will own end‑to‑end delivery from planning to post‑go-live, working with Product Owners, Engineering, Compliance, IT and external partners to ensure on‑time delivery and regulatory alignment.

The role requires strong governance with RAID logs, RACI, risk management, and clear status updates to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of projects from initiation through to completion, including planning, execution, go-live, and post-implementation review.
• Establish and maintain project plans and governance including RAID logs, RACI matrix, timelines, milestones, and resourcing requirements.
• Identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating with clear mitigation and recommendations where required.
• Ensure delivery aligns with business strategy, priorities, regulatory requirements and operational readiness.
• Take ownership of GTM delivery from initiation through to launch, working in partnership with Product, Operations, IT, Dev, DevOps and QA, and acting as the primary point of coordination for release management, cutover activities, and post go-live monitoring.
• Support SAFe Agile delivery by participating in planning sessions, PI planning cycles, reviews, and retrospectives while retaining overall delivery accountability.
• Provide clear and regular written status updates to senior internal stakeholders and business owners covering delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and general operational readiness.
• Translate and map out Business Requirement Documentation (BRD) into detailed GTM plans, coordinating BRD and HLD production as formal project deliverables.
• Manage delivery across multi-workstream programmes and complex, time-sensitive initiatives, maintaining cross-workstream dependency maps and ensuring parallel tracks converge at defined milestones in a fast-paced and regulated environment.
• Foster strong working relationships across teams and external vendors, promoting collaboration and transparency throughout the delivery lifecycle, while engaging positively in a constantly evolving environment and being willing to roll up your sleeves when required.
• Facilitate meetings and presentations to communicate delivery progress, risks, decisions, and go-to-market readiness with internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage project timelines that are dependent on external regulatory approvals including contingency planning and stakeholder communication when approval timelines shift.
• Track and manage third-party provider and vendor contract milestones as critical path dependencies, coordinating between internal Legal, Compliance, and external counterparties.
• Ensure operational readiness for go-live includes business continuity planning (BCP), rollback and contingency procedures, and defined hypercare monitoring plans.
• Contribute to PMO governance including maintaining the project portfolio status, governance, and feeding data into senior leadership.
• Other ad hoc requests as defined by manager.

Job description

MiFinity, a leading global payments provider based in Dublin, seeks an experienced Project Manager to coordinate cross‑functional initiatives across product and operations. You will own end‑to‑end delivery from planning to post‑go-live, working with Product Owners, Engineering, Compliance, IT and external partners to ensure on‑time delivery and regulatory alignment.

The role requires strong governance with RAID logs, RACI, risk management, and clear status updates to senior stakeholders.