Project Manager

Our client, a global financial institution has a vacancy for Project Manager for their Bahrain office. Responsibilities: -Develop and baseline integrated project plans in Celoxis, covering scope, objectives, work breakdown structure, schedule, budget, resource requirements and dependencies -Track project milestones, deliverables and variance between planned and actual work, and take corrective action -Apply the Project Management Methodology, SDLC and Integrated Change, SDLC and Release SOP -Identify and manage project dependencies and critical paths. -Identify, assess and mitigate project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, maintaining a current RAID log and escalating where tolerance is exceeded, with the objective of minimising the firm risk exposure. -Embed information security, data privacy, operational risk and regulatory requirements from design onwards, coordinating the DPIA with the DPO, the ORM NPP / Conduct Risk Assessment with Operational Risk, and security reviews with Information & Cyber Security. -Assess and manage changes to project scope, schedule or cost through formal change control, reflecting approved changes in a revised baseline. -Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle. -Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals and presentations for sponsors, steering committees and leadership. -Determine the frequency and content of status reports from project teams, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas. -Manage project budgets, tracking actual cost (internal effort and external spend) against baseline in Celoxis to ensure financial targets are met. -Draft and submit budget proposals for the annual budget cycle and recommend subsequent budget changes

Minimum 7 years’ experience in technology project management, including delivery using agile or hybrid approaches. -Recognised project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent); agile certification (e.g., PMI-ACP, PSM or CSM) is desirable. -Minimum 5 years experience in the financial services industry. -Proficiency with Microsoft 365 (including Copilot) and project and service management tools (e.g., Celoxis, ITSM, Jira/YouTrack), with working knowledge of predictive, agile and hybrid methodologies. -Working knowledge of the SDLC, IT change and release management, and secure delivery practices. Preference for Bahrain based candidates.