Banking Project Manager – Technology Initiatives

About the role

Helius Technologies is seeking a Banking Project Manager to lead technology initiatives across Asia and the Middle East. The role involves coordinating engineering teams, stakeholders, and delivery leads to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and compliant with banking regulations.

Key responsibilities

• Define project scope, goals, deliverables, and success metrics in alignment with senior stakeholders.
• Manage project budgets, track expenditures, and forecast financial outcomes.
• Identify, mitigate, and monitor project risks while ensuring adherence to global and local banking regulations such as Basel, AML, and KYC.
• Act as the primary liaison between business units, IT departments, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Allocate resources, manage timelines, assign tasks, and resolve conflicts across cross‑functional teams.
• Standardise and implement new operational processes, system upgrades, and organisational changes across branches or departments.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Banking, Finance, Computer Science, Business Administration or a related field.
• 5+ years of project‑management experience within retail, corporate or investment banking environments.
• Preferred certifications: PMP, PRINCE2; Agile/Scrum certifications are a strong plus.
• Proven track record handling core‑banking migrations, digital‑banking upgrades, regulatory reporting compliance or payment‑system projects.

Required skills

• Agile project‑management methodology.
• Waterfall project‑management methodology.
• Hybrid project‑management frameworks.
• PMP certification.
• PRINCE2 certification.
• Scrum certification.