Murex Programme Manager

Job description / Role

A leading Financial Institution in the Middle East is looking for a Murex Programme Manager to lead their ongoing Murex Programme.

ROLE PURPOSE & KEY PRIORITIES:
- Manage Large Transformational Strategic Projects for the Bank. These key initiatives are expected to greatly enhance Bank’s Product Capabilities and therefore have significant impact on Bank’s Top and Bottom Lines.
- Technical Project / Program Management.
- Estimation, Risk Management, Solution Review, Resource Planning
- Cost and Schedule Management.
- Vendor Management
- Process Compliance
- Stakeholder Management (Business, IT, Risk, Security, Vendor)

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Program Planning, ensuring the project has well defined business case, charter, scope, requirements, deliverables
- Effective Execution of the program, from scope, schedule and quality. Responsible for Risk Management, Schedule management, Milestones and Dependencies Management.

Ensure Following Compliances
- Process
- Security
- Legal
- Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder Management.
- Business
- PPM
- Vendor
- Project Team
- Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infra, Compliance

Team Leadership
- Set direction for the team and manage high performing Project Team
- Resource Trainings and Tooling
- Team Motivation and Focus while maximising productivity
- Grooming Junior PMs and helping them become effective in banking environment

Requirements

- Over all 15-20 years of IT Project Management with 5+ years (recent) in Banking Domain (Treasury). Regional experience useful but not Mandatory.
- Experience in implementing Murex or related treasury projects in a Bank or other financial institution. Murex implementation is referred but not mandatory.
- Product Migration from an existing system of record to the new system covering all the upstream integrations and downstream data flows including financial systems such as DW, General Ledger etc
- Significant experience in leading large Programs running for more than 12 months that have enterprise wise impact.
- Proven ability to manage stakeholders including business heads, functional heads and Org Management
- Grasp on Project Management Principles and Methodologies such as PMP, Prince etc.
- Strong Project Management Experience including Stakeholder Reporting, Managing Risks, Project Interdependencies
- Managing Multi Location

Skills:
- Strong Leadership Skills
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
- Change Management
- Good handle on Project Planning tools such as Microsoft Project. MS Excel, Visio, PowerPoint

Product Skills:
- Mx 3.x implementation experience.
- The PM should be able to size HW, resources and schedule related to implementation based on asset classes and underlying complexities.
- PM to have good experience in FO, MO, BO functions / workflows relevant to Mx
- Mx interfaces to various market data feeds and trading platforms
- Exposure to GLCMS is preferred.
- Integration of MX with GLCMS preferred.

About the Company

AXIZ Consulting is based in the Dubai International Finance Centre and offers a bespoke, highly consultative recruitment service to local and international organisations across the GCC in both professional services and primary industries. Its founding two members come from a blend of executive search and contingent recruitment and they have taken some of the best practices of executive search and applied this to contingent recruitment in order to produce a service which offers maximum value to clients.

In order for us to build a successful company, we identified a core aim: to offer our clients a service that surpasses that of our competition. In order to do this, we have put into place both internal and external processes that ensure clients receive a consistent and professional service which gets the right results, in the right way.