Project Manager (Financial Crime Remediation Programme, KYC) - 6 month contract
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About the Role
A leading global management consultancy seeks a Project Manager for a 6-month contract in Abu Dhabi to lead a Financial Crime remediation programme for a large Islamic Bank. The role involves programme setup, governance, delivery tracking, and stakeholder management.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the overall remediation project plan, milestones and delivery roadmap.
- Coordinate activities across KYC, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and Transaction Monitoring workstreams.
- Establish effective governance, reporting and stakeholder management frameworks.
- Track deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, ensuring timely escalation where required.
- Drive accountability across business, compliance, operations and technology teams.
- Chair project meetings, steering committees and working groups.
- Produce regular status reports for senior management and programme leadership.
- Monitor remediation progress against regulatory commitments, KPI targets and deadlines.
- Ensure project documentation, controls and governance standards are maintained throughout the programme lifecycle.
- Challenge stakeholders and proactively remove delivery roadblocks to keep the programme on track.
- Set up and run the programme, ensuring progress reporting and delivery against agreed targets.
- Drive execution across multiple workstreams within a high pressure regulatory remediation environment.
Requirements
- Extensive Project Management experience working on Financial Crime and Regulatory Compliance projects.
- Project Management experience within Financial Services.
- Strong background delivering Financial Crime, AML, Compliance or Regulatory Change programmes.
- Hands on experience across one or more of KYC / Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Transaction Monitoring or Financial Crime remediation programmes.
- Proven track record delivering complex regulatory or remediation initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior executives and programme sponsors.
- Ability to establish programme structure, governance, reporting and stakeholder management frameworks.
- Ability to track deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, and escalate effectively.
- Ability to drive accountability across business, compliance, operations and technology teams.
- Experience chairing project meetings, steering committees and working groups.
- Experience producing regular status reports for senior management and programme leadership.
- Experience monitoring remediation progress against regulatory commitments, KPI targets and deadlines.
Full Job Posting
About the Role
- We are supporting a leading global management consultancy engaged on a major Financial Crime remediation programme with a large Islamic Bank in Abu Dhabi.
- Following regulatory findings and enforcement action from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE), the bank is undertaking a large scale remediation initiative focused on strengthening its Financial Crime framework, specifically across KYC, Customer Due Diligence, Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and Transa
- This is a Project Manager role focused on setting up the programme, establishing structure and governance, running delivery, hitting KPI targets, and providing progress reporting. It is not a hands on Compliance role.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the overall remediation project plan, milestones and delivery roadmap.
- Coordinate activities across KYC, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and Transaction Monitoring workstreams.
- Establish effective governance, reporting and stakeholder management frameworks.
- Track deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, ensuring timely escalation where required.
- Drive accountability across business, compliance, operations and technology teams.
- Chair project meetings, steering committees and working groups.
- Produce regular status reports for senior management and programme leadership.
- Monitor remediation progress against regulatory commitments, KPI targets and deadlines.
- Ensure project documentation, controls and governance standards are maintained throughout the programme lifecycle.
- Challenge stakeholders and proactively remove delivery roadblocks to keep the programme on track.
- Set up and run the programme, ensuring progress reporting and delivery against agreed targets.
- Drive execution across multiple workstreams within a high pressure regulatory remediation environment.
Your Profile
- Extensive Project Management experience working on Financial Crime and Regulatory Compliance projects.
- Project Management experience within Financial Services.
- Strong background delivering Financial Crime, AML, Compliance or Regulatory Change programmes.
- Hands on experience across one or more of KYC / Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Transaction Monitoring or Financial Crime remediation programmes.
- Proven track record delivering complex regulatory or remediation initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior executives and programme sponsors.
- Ability to establish programme structure, governance, reporting and stakeholder management frameworks.
- Ability to track deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, and escalate effectively where required.
- Ability to drive accountability across business, compliance, operations and technology teams.
- Experience chairing project meetings, steering committees and working groups.
- Experience producing regular status reports for senior management and programme leadership.
- Experience monitoring remediation progress against regulatory commitments, KPI targets and deadlines.
What's Offered
- Initial 6 month contract, with extension likely.
- Rate of up to AED 15,000 per month.
- Onsite working model in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Opportunity to support a leading global management consultancy on a major Financial Crime remediation programme.
- Engagement with a large Islamic Bank in Abu Dhabi.
- Exposure to a large scale remediation initiative following regulatory findings and enforcement action from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE).
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