Oversee and ensure the administrative and technical aspects of ongoing projects are run smoothly by organizing and managing tasks, schedules, and resources from inception to completion.
Collaborate with other Project Managers, Squad leads, and other internal stakeholders and obtain commitments for issue free delivery of medium size to large projects.
Develop and upgrade project management processes, standards, and practices to deliver expected business results, ensure that defined processes, standards, and practices are applied.
Your role will ensure that the PMO functions of the projects run smoothly, enabling the project manager and team to have the support they need to attain project success.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that end-to-end delivery of key projects right from requirement consolidation, conceptualization, planning, execution, and delivery is done as per defined processes, standards, and practices.
- Effectively collaborate with internal stakeholders for aligning project management practices with higher management expectations.
- Ensure project implementation within stipulated timelines and budget.
- Manage and sustain issue free delivery of all assigned projects and initiatives in order to achieve required results and ensure good customer experience.
- Ensure optimum timelines for obtaining cost approvals through effective collaborations with vendors and internal stakeholders.
- Manage ongoing communication with all stakeholders with escalations wherever appropriate.
- Ensuring that managing the end-to-end delivery of projects and creating good customer experiences through fulfillment of client expectations well within timelines and budget.
- Ensure confidentiality of sensitive data and client information
- Switching projects configuration.
- Asses the risk associated with the configuration/parameter changes and establish risk mitigation plan.
- Perform Impact analysis of all the changes before project initiation.
- Ensure proper Processes are followed for quality delivery.
- Champion support in projects implementation, strong understanding of the projects impacting the BAU functionality thus ensuring quality delivery.
- Should be able to perform hands-on the management tools like Jira, Confluence.
- Support testing in all phases during the project implementation cycle.
- Should be able to work in cross-Functional teams.
- Work closely with Solution design team to identify and specify complex business requirements and processes. Research and evaluate alternative solutions and make recommendations.
Qualifications
Education: Bachelor’s degree
Experience:
- 5+ Years of Experience in transaction processing and payments domain.
- Experience in projects in payments business domain (issuing, acquiring, digital wallets, e-commerce, schemes certifications)
- Well versed in project management techniques, tools and processes and detailed understanding of Project Management Methodology.
Knowledge/Skills:
- Well versed with Payment systems, transactions routing, global and Local schemes.
- Excellent oral/written communication and interpersonal skills for effective collaboration with stakeholders.
- Good mentoring, team building, motivating & negotiating skills.
- Tools: MS Project, MS Excel, Task Tracking (JIRA, Confluence)
- Processes: Kanban, Scrum, Waterfall, SAFE
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience in transaction processing and payments domain
- Experience in payments projects (issuing, acquiring, digital wallets, e-commerce, schemes certifications)
- Well versed in project management techniques, tools, processes and Project Management Methodology
- Knowledge of payment systems, transaction routing, global and local schemes
- Proficiency with MS Project, MS Excel, JIRA, Confluence
- Familiarity with Kanban, Scrum, Waterfall, SAFe
- Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Mentoring, team building, motivating, and negotiating skills
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams and collaborate with stakeholders
- Ability to support testing in all phases of project implementation
- Ability to perform impact analysis, assess configuration risks, and establish mitigation plans
Network International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Network International and has not been reviewed or approved by Network International.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Pay is considered decent in some roles and is often paired with bonuses. Phrases like 'salary plus bonuses' indicate variable pay is a meaningful component for certain positions.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage extends to employees, spouses, and up to three children, alongside life insurance. This breadth signals a robust healthcare baseline for the region.
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Retirement Support — Retirement and termination benefits align with UAE/GCC norms, including pension contributions for nationals and end‑of‑service gratuity for expatriates. Such provisions indicate structured, region‑appropriate retirement support.
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What We Do
Over the past 30 years, we have built a business based on long-standing and trusted relationships with many of the leading merchants, financial institutions and payment networks operating in the Middle East and Africa. Such relationships are based on our comprehensive capabilities, scale, local presence in the multiple markets in which we operate, alongside our trusted reputation. This gives us significant scale and leadership in the region, where we operate in more than 50 countries, serve over 130,000 merchants and 250 financial institutions and fintech customers, whilst managing more than 16 million customer credentials. We have a diversified business model and operate across the entire consumer payments value chain. We do this with a growth-focused strategy through two business lines: • That enables our merchant customers to ‘take payments’, by providing them with various payment acceptance methods, both online and offline. • Which supports our financial institution, fintech and other payment issuing institution customers in enabling consumers ‘make payments’, by managing and processing their consumer payment credentials and transactions.
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