Project Manager

Experience: 10+ Years
Role: Project Manager

Responsibilities:

1. Project Initiation & Planning

· Develop and manage project plans, timelines, budgets, resource requirements, and business cases.

· Secure project approvals, funding, and stakeholder endorsements.

· Conduct detailed project assessments to identify scope, risks, dependencies, assumptions, and constraints.

· Ensure project governance frameworks are established and adhered to throughout the project lifecycle.

· Define project objectives, deliverables, milestones, and success criteria.

· Establish stakeholder engagement and communication plans.

· Identify and secure required project resources across business and technology functions.

2. Project Execution

· Lead the delivery of applications, network and workplace technology migration initiatives.

· Coordinate activities across technology teams.

· Drive project execution to meet business objectives, contractual obligations, and agreed milestones.

· Ensure timely and accurate communication with project stakeholders at all levels.

· Manage project changes, escalations, and cross-functional dependencies.

· Facilitate issue resolution and decision-making processes.

· Ensure project deliverables meet quality, compliance, and security requirements.

3. Project Control, Governance & Reporting

· Monitor and track project progress against approved plans, timelines, budgets, and milestones.

· Maintain effective risk, issue, assumption, and dependency management processes.

· Prepare and present project status reports and management updates to senior stakeholders.

· Ensure compliance with project governance standards, audit requirements, and organizational policies.

· Manage project documentation and maintain appropriate project records.

· Ensure all project deliverables, approvals, and sign-offs are completed and maintained in an auditable manner.

· Escalate critical risks, issues, and delays appropriately.

4. Financial Management & Cost Governance

· Support project budgeting, forecasting, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting activities.

· Assist in developing business cases and investment proposals for technology initiatives.

· Monitor project spend against approved budgets and identify cost variances.

· Work closely with Finance, Procurement, Technology, and Business stakeholders to ensure appropriate financial governance.

· Support technology cost allocation, consumption tracking, and budget planning activities.

· Participate in benefits realization and post-implementation reviews.

Requirements:

· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.

· Project Management certification (PMP, Prince2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent) is advantageous.

· ITIL or technology service management certification is an added advantage.

Project Management

• Minimum 8 years of project management experience.
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end technology projects within complex environments.
• Strong project governance, planning, budgeting, tracking, and reporting experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale migration, transformation, infrastructure, or technology deployment projects.
• Strong expertise in risk, issue, dependency, and change management.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders, vendors, and cross-functional teams.

Technical Knowledge

Strong understanding of:

• Network technologies and infrastructure.
• Workplace and End-User Computing (EUC) technologies.
• Cloud technologies.
• Technology service delivery and operational support models.

Experience in one or more of the following is advantageous:

• Network migrations.
• Workplace technology refresh programs.
• Infrastructure transformation projects.
• Cloud transformation initiatives.

Banking Domain Knowledge

• Good understanding of banking technology environments and operational processes.
• Familiarity with technology governance and control frameworks within financial institutions.
• Experience working with business, operations, infrastructure, technology, and support functions within banking organizations.
• Understanding of regulatory, audit, compliance, and risk management requirements.

Financial & Technology Cost Management

• Understanding of business transaction volumes and operational drivers.
• Understanding of technology consumption and volume drivers across business units, including:

• Application usage

  User counts

  Workplace devices

  Software licenses

  Infrastructure services

• Knowledge of technology cost allocation, chargeback and cost recovery models.
• Understanding of technology service costing methodologies.

• Good understanding of CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) and OPEX (Operating Expenditure) concepts and their application within technology projects.
• Ability to differentiate between capital investments and recurring operational expenses.
• Understanding of financial planning concepts including budgeting, forecasting, cost estimation, variance analysis, and expenditure tracking.
• Experience supporting technology budget preparation, cost governance, and financial planning and analysis processes.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Strong communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Proven ability to influence and negotiate across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strategic and forward-thinking approach to challenges.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced and ambiguous environments.
• Highly organized, proactive, resilient, and results-oriented.
• Resourceful team player with strong collaboration skills.

Key Domain/ Technical Skills:

• Network technologies and infrastructure.
• Workplace and End-User Computing (EUC) technologies.
• Cloud technologies.
• Technology service delivery and operational support models.