Senior Project Manager – Banking, Payments & Credit Systems

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of banking, payments, and credit system projects.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and change control.
• Drive delivery across payments platforms, credit systems, lending solutions, and core banking environments.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including IT, business, vendors, and third-party service providers.
• Ensure compliance with banking governance, regulatory, and risk frameworks.
• Manage stakeholder engagement at senior executive and technical levels.
• Oversee project documentation, RAID logs, and executive reporting.
• Support testing, migration, cutover, and go-live activities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent (IT, Business, or related field preferred).
• Project Management certification required:
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile (Scrum / SAFe), or equivalent.

Experience & Skills Required:

• Minimum 8 years experience as a Project Manager within Banking or Financial Services.
• Extensive hands-on experience delivering Payment Systems (e.g., cards, EFT, real-time payments, switching).
• Extensive experience working with Credit Systems (lending, loans, credit scoring, origination, collections).
• Strong technical project management background across IT and system implementations.
• Proven experience working with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, system integration, and enterprise banking architectures.
• Strong vendor, stakeholder, and executive management capabilities.

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