Senior Project Manager – Digital Payments

Job Title: Senior Project Manager Digital Payments

Employment type: Contract (On-site)

Contract length: 12 months

Location: Casablanca Morocco

PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT

Lead the PMO delivery effort for the digital-bank setup providing senior oversight across the major workstreams and ensuring that governance risks dependencies and executive decisions remain aligned with the launch roadmap.

Core Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Build and maintain an integrated delivery roadmap covering business digital marketing technology finance operations and customer-service workstreams.
• Define and track milestones deliverables owners dependencies risks open decisions and mitigation actions through go-live.
• Prepare governance forums agendas decision points meeting materials action logs and follow-up reporting.
• Monitor workstream and squad progress identify blockers or scope gaps and coordinate resolution across teams.
• Produce clear status dashboards and management reporting covering schedule quality dependencies risks and decisions.
• Support change management adoption of new ways of working and readiness activities for launch.
• Lead PMO coordination and provide direction to the Project Manager and workstream owners.
• Escalate critical delivery issues and frame options and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Ensure governance decisions are translated into accountable actions with clear owners and deadlines.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Former consulting experience leading PMO teams preferably within banking or digital-transformation programs.
• Strong program governance executive stakeholder management risk management and cross-functional delivery experience.
• Ability to lead complex multi-workstream initiatives in an onsite client environment.
• The ability to work onsite in Morocco throughout the assignment.

Mandatory Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Finance Economics Business Administration Computer Science Information Technology or a related field (Masters preferred) including project management certification.
• Previous experience within Banking Digital Payment & Card solutions or the FinTech industry.
• Regional experience including working in a faced-paced matrix organisation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; English French and/or Arabic capability is advantageous.

Preferred Skills:

• The ability to analyse data troubleshoot payment issues optimize processes and make data-driven decisions.
• Good understanding of payment systems digital platforms system workflows security basics and industry technologies.