PMO Transactional Banking & Digital Channel

About the Role

PayNest is seeking a PMO professional for a contract position in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. This role focuses on overseeing corporate and SME digital journey delivery within an early-stage banking transformation program. The program aims to consolidate retail, SME, and corporate channels onto a single platform.

Role Context and Purpose

Working within an independent program management office, the PMO professional will govern delivery, assure the quality of outputs, and provide an objective view of progress. This role is responsible for running and assuring processes but does not involve writing requirements or configuring the platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate delivery cadence for the corporate and SME workstream across squads and vendors, including sprint planning, stand-ups, refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Govern the corporate backlog in Jira, ensuring items are structured, prioritised, traceable, and moved through the agreed lifecycle with reliable reporting.
• Facilitate and assure the requirements-management process across onboarding, cash management, trade finance, payroll, collections, liquidity, and virtual accounts, with particular attention to entitlements, authorisation structures, and limits.
• Maintain traceability from business intent through design, build, testing, and release, while tracking dependencies involving core banking, payments, trade, and treasury systems.
• Coordinate corporate onboarding, data migration, and release governance with delivery partners, including UAT, defect triage, gate evidence, and cross-system readiness.
• Prepare weekly executive-quality reporting and consistent decision frameworks for prioritisation, scope trade-offs, and release gates.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5 to 10 years of experience in corporate or transaction banking digital channels within a bank, consultancy, or transformation programme.
• Good understanding of corporate banking complexity, particularly entitlements, multi-user authorisation, transaction controls, and regulatory considerations.
• Exposure to cash management or trade finance products and the integration of core, payments, trade, and treasury systems; corporate channel migration experience is highly desirable.
• Advanced Jira capability and confidence working in agile delivery ceremonies alongside internal squads and vendor development teams.
• Ability to identify ambiguity, control gaps, integration risks, and missing detail in requirements and delivery documentation.
• Ability to transform delivery detail into decision-focused executive material, supported by strong PowerPoint and Microsoft Office skills.
• Candidates must be independent of the programme's current delivery parties.

Essential Requirements

• Available to join immediately or with a notice period of no more than 30 days.
• Eligible to work in Saudi Arabia.
• Candidates holding valid residency in the UAE or Saudi Arabia are preferred.
• Clear English communication skills are essential; Arabic language capability is helpful.