Job Openings Project Manager - Digital Assets

About the job Project Manager - Digital Assets

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning and Delivery Management

  • Lead end-to-end project management across assigned initiatives from initiation through planning, execution, governance, and closure.
  • Develop and maintain detailed project plans, milestone trackers, dependency maps, and delivery schedules.
  • Monitor progress across workstreams and ensure actions, decisions, and deliverables are tracked to closure.
  • Identify risks, issues, bottlenecks, and interdependencies, and drive timely resolution.
  • Ensure projects remain aligned to agreed scope, priorities, timelines, and governance requirements.

Governance and Executive Reporting

  • Establish and manage effective governance across working groups, project forums, and executive committees.
  • Prepare high-quality project status reports, dashboards, RAID logs, milestone updates, and management summaries.
  • Produce clear and professional materials for SteerCos, executive reviews, sponsor updates, and governance meetings.
  • Ensure reporting is concise, accurate, structured, and tailored for senior stakeholder consumption.

Presentation Development and Communication

  • Develop polished presentations, update decks, decision papers, and briefing materials for senior management.
  • Translate complex project and technology topics into clear, business-friendly communication.
  • Support the preparation of executive papers, meeting packs, summary notes, and presentation materials.
  • Maintain strong communication across stakeholders to ensure alignment, visibility, and timely decision-making.

Stakeholder and Cross-Functional Coordination

  • Coordinate effectively across business, technology, enterprise architecture, compliance, legal, risk, operations, finance, procurement, and external vendors.
  • Facilitate workshops, working groups, steering forums, and follow-up actions.
  • Ensure all stakeholders are aligned on scope, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, and decisions.
  • Act as the central point of coordination across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.

Vendor and External Partner Management

  • Coordinate with external vendors, consulting partners, and technology providers throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Track vendor deliverables, workshops, actions, and timelines.
  • Support commercial, onboarding, documentation, and governance processes where required.
  • Ensure external dependencies are identified early and actively managed.

Financial, Resource, and Delivery Tracking

  • Support budgeting, funding tracking, resource planning, and financial oversight for project activities where required.
  • Track staffing dependencies, delivery capacity, and mobilization activities.
  • Ensure assumptions, scope boundaries, and project constraints are clearly documented and managed.

Documentation and Project Controls

  • Maintain all core project artifacts including project plans, meeting minutes, action trackers, decision logs, RAID logs, and status reports.
  • Ensure disciplined project management practices and proper record keeping across all stages of delivery.
  • Support project auditability and governance by maintaining structured and accurate project documentation.

Change Management and Delivery Readiness

  • Monitor scope changes, delivery impacts, key decisions, and implementation readiness.
  • Support transition from planning and design into execution and implementation phases.
  • Help ensure project outputs are practical, actionable, and implementation-oriented.

Mandatory Skills and Experience

Experience

  • 8–12+ years of experience in project management, program management, or transformation delivery
  • Proven track record of managing complex enterprise initiatives across business and technology functions
  • Experience in banking, financial services, fintech, or other regulated environments
  • Strong experience managing projects involving multiple stakeholders, governance forums, and external vendors
  • Experience in preparing senior management updates, governance packs, and executive presentations

Core Project Management Skills

  • Strong expertise in project planning, scheduling, tracking, and delivery management
  • Strong governance, RAID management, and dependency management skills
  • Ability to manage multiple workstreams in parallel with strong attention to detail
  • Strong organizational and execution capability in complex and evolving environments
  • Experience managing projects from initiation through execution and closure

Communication and Presentation Skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong presentation development capability, especially for executive and management audiences
  • Ability to create clear, concise, and visually structured reports, dashboards, and presentations
  • Strong ability to communicate complex topics in a simple and effective way

Stakeholder Management

  • Strong stakeholder management capability across business, technology, control, and vendor teams
  • Ability to work effectively with senior leadership and cross-functional teams
  • Strong facilitation skills for workshops, review meetings, and governance forums

Required Skills and Experience

  • Exposure to Payments, Compliance AML , digital assets, blockchain, DLT, fintech, or emerging technology initiatives
  • Experience in strategic transformation or innovation-led programs
  • Familiarity with enterprise technology delivery, architecture dependencies, and vendor-led implementations
  • Understanding of regulatory, compliance, and governance requirements in financial services
  • Experience supporting proof-of-concept, MVP, or new product / platform initiatives

Education and Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, Finance, or a related field
  • Master's degree is an advantage
  • Project management certification preferred, such as PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent

Soft Skills and Competencies

  • Strong leadership and ownership mindset
  • Highly organized and delivery-focused
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-evolving environments
  • Professional, polished, and confident in dealing with senior stakeholders