Project Manager (Financial Crime Remediation Programme, KYC) - 6 month contract

Overview

• Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE (Onsite)

• Employment type: 6 month contract
• Environment: Leading global management consultancy supporting a large Islamic Bank in Abu Dhabi

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the overall remediation project plan, milestones and delivery roadmap.
• Coordinate activities across KYC, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) and Transaction Monitoring workstreams.
• Establish effective governance, reporting and stakeholder management frameworks.
• Track deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, ensuring timely escalation where required.
• Drive accountability across business, compliance, operations and technology teams.
• Chair project meetings, steering committees and working groups.
• Produce regular status reports for senior management and programme leadership.
• Monitor remediation progress against regulatory commitments, KPI targets and deadlines.
• Ensure project documentation, controls and governance standards are maintained throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Challenge stakeholders and proactively remove delivery roadblocks to keep the programme on track.
• Set up and run the programme, ensuring progress reporting and delivery against agreed targets.
• Drive execution across multiple workstreams within a high-pressure regulatory remediation environment.

Your Profile

• Extensive Project Management experience working on Financial Crime and Regulatory Compliance projects.
• Project Management experience within Financial Services.
• Strong background delivering Financial Crime, AML, Compliance or Regulatory Change programmes.
• Hands-on experience across one or more of KYC / Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Transaction Monitoring or Financial Crime remediation programmes.
• Proven track record delivering complex regulatory or remediation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior executives and programme sponsors.
• Ability to establish programme structure, governance, reporting and stakeholder management frameworks.
• Ability to track deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, and escalate effectively where required.
• Ability to drive accountability across business, compliance, operations and technology teams.
• Experience chairing project meetings, steering committees and working groups.
• Experience producing regular status reports for senior management and programme leadership.
• Experience monitoring remediation progress against regulatory commitments, KPI targets and deadlines.
• Experience maintaining project documentation, controls and governance standards throughout the programme lifecycle.
• Ability to challenge stakeholders and proactively remove delivery roadblocks.
• Experience working within consulting environments or large-scale transformation programmes is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of UAE regulatory requirements and CBUAE expectations would be advantageous.
• Comfortable operating in a high-pressure regulatory environment.
• Able to drive progress across multiple teams and senior stakeholders.
• Delivery-focused, with the ability to quickly bring structure to a complex programme and hold stakeholders accountable.
• This role is not for hands-on Compliance work; it requires a Project Manager focused on programme setup, governance, delivery, KPI tracking and progress reporting.

What's Offered

• Initial 6-month contract, with extension likely.
• Rate of up to AED 15,000 per month.
• Onsite working model in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• Opportunity to support a leading global management consultancy on a major Financial Crime remediation programme.
• Engagement with a large Islamic Bank in Abu Dhabi.
• Exposure to a large-scale remediation initiative following regulatory findings and enforcement action from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE).

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