Project Management Manager

Title: Project Management Manager Department: Finance Strategy and Transformation Location: Riyadh Core Responsibilities: • Lead the design, continuous enhancement, and governance of the master COA structure, segment rules, and validation logic in Oracle GL. • Drive the functional integration and mapping logic between the Core Banking Systems and Oracle GL, ensuring seamless automated postings for core banking products. • Oversee interface health, eliminate mapping breaks or unmapped accounts, and establish automated reconciliation checks between Core Banking Systems and Oracle GL. • Define and execute the change management workflow for COA change requests, ensuring alignment with transformation roadmaps and target operating models. • Establish robust processes to generate automated financial reports such as Trial Balances, Balance Sheets, and Income Statements directly from financial systems. • Ensure GL structure and mapping support Central Bank regulatory reporting requirements and automated data extraction. • Operationalize new and existing accounting standards across system mappings such as IFRS 9, IFRS 16 and IFRS 18. • IFRS 18: Lead system presentation and COA mapping adjustments to comply with updated primary financial statement structure and disclosure mandates. • Work closely with Financial Reporting team and MI team to streamline the reporting requirements for Finance Control Department. • Identify process bottlenecks, manual workarounds, and legacy GL inefficiencies, driving digital automation solutions across financial control workflows. • Represent Finance Transformation in key cross-functional projects (system upgrades, core banking migration/enhancements, sub-ledger deployments). • Maintain comprehensive documentation of end-to-end mapping architecture, system interfaces, and operational controls for internal stakeholders and auditors. • Act as the Finance Data Steward for key financial data domains, ensuring clear ownership, accountability and effective data governance. • Define and maintain Critical Data Elements (CDEs) across Finance, maintain the data glossary and the metadata repository for Finance ensuring consistent interpretation and usage. • Establish and monitor Finance Data Quality (DQ) rules, Controls, KPIs and coordinate with the relevant stakeholders to investigate and remediate the identified DQ issues. • Actively contributes to high preforming team environment through knowledge sharing, peer collaboration, and supporting team goals. Qualifications and Requirements: • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Financial Information Systems. Professional qualification (SOCPA, CPA, ACCA) is preferred. • Experience in financial accounting, COA management, or finance transformation within banking or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia. • Hands-on experience administering Oracle GL preferred (COA hierarchies, cross-validation rules, mapping modules). • Direct experience with Core Banking System interface design, transactional flows, and GL extracts. • Strong affinity for digital finance tools, data mapping automation, and system integration projects. • Working knowledge of Central Bank reporting guidelines and regulatory requirements. • Deep practical understanding of IFRS and their structural impact on financial reporting. Show more Show less

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Financial Information Systems. Professional qualification (SOCPA, CPA, ACCA) is preferred. Experience in financial accounting, COA management, or finance transformation within banking or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia. Hands-on experience administering Oracle GL preferred (COA hierarchies, cross-validation rules, mapping modules). Direct experience with Core Banking System interface design, transactional flows, and GL extracts. Strong affinity for digital finance tools, data mapping automation, and system integration projects. Working knowledge of Central Bank reporting guidelines and regulatory requirements. Deep practical understanding of IFRS and their structural impact on financial reporting.

Lead the design, continuous enhancement, and governance of the master COA structure, segment rules, and validation logic in Oracle GL. Drive the functional integration and mapping logic between the Core Banking Systems and Oracle GL, ensuring seamless automated postings for core banking products. Oversee interface health, eliminate mapping breaks or unmapped accounts, and establish automated reconciliation checks between Core Banking Systems and Oracle GL. Define and execute the change management workflow for COA change requests, ensuring alignment with transformation roadmaps and target operating models. Establish robust processes to generate automated financial reports such as Trial Balances, Balance Sheets, and Income Statements directly from financial systems. Ensure GL structure and mapping support Central Bank regulatory reporting requirements and automated data extraction. Operationalize new and existing accounting standards across system mappings such as IFRS 9, IFRS 16 and IFRS 18. IFRS 18: Lead system presentation and COA mapping adjustments to comply with updated primary financial statement structure and disclosure mandates. Work closely with Financial Reporting team and MI team to streamline the reporting requirements for Finance Control Department. Identify process bottlenecks, manual workarounds, and legacy GL inefficiencies, driving digital automation solutions across financial control workflows. Represent Finance Transformation in key cross-functional projects (system upgrades, core banking migration/enhancements, sub-ledger deployments). Maintain comprehensive documentation of end-to-end mapping architecture, system interfaces, and operational controls for internal stakeholders and auditors. Act as the Finance Data Steward for key financial data domains, ensuring clear ownership, accountability and effective data governance. Define and maintain Critical Data Elements (CDEs) across Finance, maintain the data glossary and the metadata repository for Finance ensuring consistent interpretation and usage. Establish and monitor Finance Data Quality (DQ) rules, Controls, KPIs and coordinate with the relevant stakeholders to investigate and remediate the identified DQ issues.