Strategic Credit & Risk Implementation Lead (KSA)

Synapse Analytics; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Synapse Analytics is seeking a Senior Project Manager for Credit & Risk Implementations in Saudi Arabia. You will lead end-to-end Konan and Doxter deployments for banks and lenders, owning governance, delivery strategy, and regulatory readiness across a complex market.

You'll manage senior stakeholders, coordinate cross-functional teams, and mentor PMs while ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery and strong risk controls in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in project or programme management, with at least 3 years leading projects for banks, finance companies, or fintechs.
• Proven track record delivering credit, lending, or risk technology in financial institutions (origination, decisioning, scoring, or core banking modules).
• Direct experience delivering in Saudi Arabia and understanding of Saudi banks’ project workflows, approvals, and procurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Konan and Doxter implementations for Saudi financial institutions from contract handover to go-live and handover to Customer Success.
• Own credit policy digitization and policy rule translation into Konan configurations with SMEs; ensure traceability to approved policy documents and formal sign-off by risk owners.
• Lead end-to-end lending journey design across retail, SME, and consumer finance products including origination, onboarding, decisioning, and document verification flows.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Delivery leadership

Bilingual Arabic/English

Regulatory knowledge

Tools

Jira

ClickUp

Job description

Synapse Analytics is seeking a Senior Project Manager for Credit & Risk Implementations in Saudi Arabia. You will lead end-to-end Konan and Doxter deployments for banks and lenders, owning governance, delivery strategy, and regulatory readiness across a complex market.

You'll manage senior stakeholders, coordinate cross-functional teams, and mentor PMs while ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery and strong risk controls in a regulated environment.