Corporate Credit Origination Project Manager

About the role

A senior Corporate Credit Origination Project Manager is sought to take end-to-end ownership of the remediation and enhancement of a bank's existing corporate credit-origination platform. The role calls for a techno-functional professional who can assess implementation gaps, define a remediation roadmap and drive execution across business, credit, operations, risk, compliance and technology teams. It is a contract-to-hire position based onsite in Bahrain.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end remediation and enhancement of the credit-origination platform and its processes, reviewing workflows, finding gaps and defining a prioritised roadmap.
• Improve the corporate lending lifecycle (application, assessment, approval, documentation, limit setup, disbursement, renewals, amendments and monitoring) so it matches credit policies, risk controls and regulations.
• Facilitate workshops with relationship management, credit, risk, operations, legal, compliance and credit-administration teams, and track improvements in turnaround time, efficiency, controls and user adoption.
• Translate requirements into process maps, functional specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria; review solution design, configuration and business rules.
• Coordinate integrations with core banking, customer, risk-rating, collateral, document-management and reporting systems, and oversee data mapping, cleansing, migration and reconciliation.
• Work with technical teams on issue investigation, testing (integration, UAT, regression), release planning, cutover, deployment and post-implementation support.
• Manage technology vendors and system integrators, and ensure information security, segregation of duties, audit trails and data privacy.
• Own the project plan (scope, milestones, budget, risks), run governance forums, resolve cross-functional issues and drive stakeholder communication, training and change management.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in banking, financial services, consulting or banking technology, with substantial corporate or commercial lending experience.
• Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Technology or a related field.
• Proven experience leading the implementation, enhancement or transformation of corporate credit-origination platforms.
• Strong knowledge of corporate lending products, credit policies, approval structures, risk controls and credit administration.
• Ability to work with relationship managers, credit analysts, risk and operations teams and technology delivery teams.

Required skills

• Corporate credit-origination systems, workflow configuration (approval routing, maker-checker controls) and system integration (APIs, web services, middleware, core banking).
• Data mapping, migration, reconciliation and quality assessment.
• SQL and database concepts, testing lifecycle and release/cutover processes.
• Role-based access, information security, audit trails and technology controls.
• Reporting dashboards for credit pipeline, approvals, turnaround time and portfolio monitoring.
• Agile, waterfall or hybrid delivery methods and project-management tools.