# Project Manager — VerityX

Canonical: https://jobxdubai.com/jobs/li-4447354366-project-manager
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Type: full_time · Level: senior
Monthly salary: AED 20,000 to 35,000 per month (estimated, not employer-stated) (UAE salaries are tax-free)
Posted: 2026-08-05
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## Description

Job Description – Project Manager
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Required: 5+ Years

Industry: Banking / Financial Services
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and delivery-focused Project Manager to lead business and technology initiatives within a dynamic banking environment. You will be responsible for planning, managing, and delivering projects from initiation through to implementation, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.

The successful candidate will work closely with senior business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and external partners to deliver strategic change programmes that support the bank's transformation agenda.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of business and technology projects.

• Develop detailed project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource plans.

• Define project scope, objectives, success criteria, and governance structures.

• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and change requests.

• Track project progress against agreed milestones and proactively address delivery risks.

• Prepare and present regular status updates to programme boards, steering committees, and senior executives.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Business, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and external vendors.

• Manage third-party suppliers to ensure contractual obligations and delivery milestones are achieved.

• Ensure effective stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.

• Drive project governance, documentation, reporting, and quality assurance.

• Support business readiness activities including communications, training, operational handover, and post-implementation reviews.

• Ensure compliance with internal governance standards, regulatory requirements, and banking policies.

Required Experience

• Minimum 5 years' experience delivering projects within the banking or financial services sector.

• Demonstrated experience managing technology, digital transformation, regulatory, or operational change initiatives.

• Proven track record of delivering multiple concurrent projects.

• Experience managing project budgets, timelines, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.

• Strong understanding of both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.

Essential Skills

• Excellent spoken and written English with the ability to communicate confidently at all organisational levels.

• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.

• Excellent planning, organisation, and prioritisation abilities.

• Ability to influence without direct authority.

• Commercial awareness with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.

• Calm under pressure and capable of managing competing priorities.

• Strong presentation and executive reporting skills.

• Highly collaborative with excellent interpersonal skills.

Technical Skills
Experience with:

• Microsoft Project

• Jira

• Confluence

• Microsoft Office Suite

• SharePoint

• Power BI (desirable)

• Azure DevOps (desirable)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline.

• PMP certification or PRINCE2 Practitioner certification preferred.

• Agile certifications such as Scrum Master, SAFe, or AgilePM are advantageous.

Personal Attributes
The successful candidate will be a proactive and results-oriented Project Manager with a strong customer focus and the ability to build trusted relationships across business and technology teams. You will be comfortable operating in a regulated banking environment, balancing governance requirements with pragmatic delivery, and driving projects through to successful completion.
What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on strategic banking transformation programmes.

• Exposure to senior leadership and enterprise-wide initiatives.

• Collaborative, high-performing team environment.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Excellent career progression opportunities within project and programme management.

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## Requirements

Minimum 5 years' experience delivering projects within the banking or financial services sector. Demonstrated experience managing technology, digital transformation, regulatory, or operational change initiatives. Proven track record of delivering multiple concurrent projects. Experience managing project budgets, timelines, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams. Strong understanding of both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.

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