Project Manager – Retail Lending Programme
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Virtusa is seeking a Project Manager for a Retail Lending Programme in Dubai, full-time onsite, to lead planning and delivery across LOS, LMS and collections with multi-workstream coordination and phased go-live waves. You will manage scope, milestones, budgets, and governance while driving migrations from Newgen IBPS to Flowable and Nucleus to FinnOne Neo, plus KYC AML handoff and both conventional and Islamic lending products. The ideal candidate has 12 to 14 years of banking and strong end-to-end delivery, stakeholder reporting, and experience with core banking integrations and BPMN workflows. Bachelor’s degree required, MBA preferred, PMP/PRINCE2 and Agile certification a plus. To apply, tailor your CV to prove multi-project delivery, budget control, vendor management, and tangible go-live outcomes, and highlight hands-on expertise with Flowable, FinnOne Neo, Nucleus or Finacle, in a hybrid or agile Dubai onsite setting.
Description
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
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