Project Manager – Retail Lending Programme
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Virtusa seeks a Project Manager for a Retail Lending Programme in Dubai. The role involves planning and delivery management across loan origination, loan management, and collections workstreams.
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Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, WBS, schedule and critical path across LOS, LMS and Collections workstreams
- Manage scope, milestones and deliverables across phased go live waves (greenfield new book first, followed by legacy migration)
- Drive day to day delivery, sprint cadence and resource planning across business, IT and vendor teams
- Track and report progress, budget (CAPEX/OPEX) and QG gate readiness to stakeholders
- Manage LOS migration from Newgen IBPS to Flowable, LMS migration from Nucleus LMS v3.3 to FinnOne Neo, and Collections migration from Intellect to FinnOne Neo
Requirements
- 12 14 years of banking/financial services experience with a strong project delivery track record
- Proven experience managing retail lending system implementations across origination, loan management and collections (e.g., Flowable, Newgen, FinnOne Neo, Nucleus, Intellect, Finacle, Pega, TCS BaNCS)
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field (Master's/MBA preferred)
- PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent certification; Agile/Scrum certification an advantage
- Strong planning, scheduling and critical path management skills (MS Project, Wrike, or similar)
- Budget, vendor and commercial management experience
- Governance, RAID and stakeholder reporting at senior/CXO level
- Working knowledge of LOS, LMS and collections platforms and integration patterns (REST/SOAP, APIs, data migration)
- Agile and waterfall/hybrid delivery experience
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Key Responsibilities
- Planning & Delivery Management: Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, WBS, schedule and critical path across the LOS, LMS and Collections workstreams
- Manage scope, milestones and deliverables across phased go live waves (greenfield new book first, followed by legacy migration)
- Drive day to day delivery, sprint cadence and resource planning across business, IT and vendor teams
- Track and report progress, budget (CAPEX/OPEX) and QG gate readiness to stakeholders
- Loan Origination System (LOS) migration from Newgen IBPS to Flowable — onboarding, application capture, STP journeys, credit decisioning, policy rules & BPMN approval workflow
- Loan Management System (LMS) migration from Nucleus LMS v3.3 to FinnOne Neo — servicing, repayment scheduling, accrual, GL/accounting, deferral, rescheduling, write off & closure
- Collections migration from Intellect to FinnOne Neo — delinquency management, bucketing, dunning, collections workflow, allocation, field & tele calling, promise to pay & legal/recovery
- KYC/AML, documentation & disbursement handoff to core banking
- Conventional (FinnOne Neo) and Islamic (Finacle 11.x — Murabaha, Ijara) retail lending products
- Integration across core banking, credit bureau, e KYC, payments, GL, channels & dialer/collections tools
Skills & Competencies
- End to end delivery management of large, multi workstream banking technology/system implementation programmes
- Strong planning, scheduling and critical path management (MS Project, Wrike, or similar)
- Budget, vendor and commercial management
- Governance, RAID and stakeholder reporting at senior/CXO level
- Working knowledge of LOS, LMS and collections platforms and integration patterns (REST/SOAP, APIs, data migration)
- Agile and waterfall/hybrid delivery
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field (Master's/MBA preferred)
- 12–14 years of banking/financial services experience, with a strong project delivery track record
- Proven experience managing retail lending system implementations across origination, loan management and collections (e.g., Flowable, Newgen, FinnOne Neo, Nucleus, Intellect, Finacle, Pega, TCS BaNCS)
- PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent certification; Agile/Scrum certification an advantage
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