Senior Project Manager, Zafin
+ Annual bonus potential
Some travel required
Product & pricing lifecycle management platform
Be an early applicant
Product & pricing lifecycle management platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Annual bonus potential
Some travel required
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make banks more agile and efficient than ever before, enabling innovative experiences that improve the lives of customers and employees.
Role
Who you are
- The right candidate enjoys working in an exciting, fast-paced, and collaborative environment
- Proven ability in working across the organization, a self-starter, who can deal with ambiguity, maintains focus, drives to clarity and provides innovative solutions with good written & oral communication skills
- Experience of having worked in an onsite/offshore model
- Undergraduate degree with high academic achievement, in Business, or a related discipline; MBA preferred
- 10+ years of progressive, program-related experience working in a fast-paced and multiple stakeholder environment, preferably in Banking/ Financial vertical
- Knowledge of the practices, procedures, and principles of program management (waterfall, Agile, Scrum)
- Experience working with project management tools (MS Project, PowerPoint, or similar) and digital tools (i.e., JIRA or similar)
- Hands-on experience with creating and delivering high quality, customer-facing materials/deliverables
- Team player with the ability to influence and achieve results through effective negotiation, problem-solving
- Excellent articulation, communication (written/verbal) and collaboration skills
- Always curious and always learning
What the job involves
- Reporting into the Delivery Executive, this Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading end-to-end delivery by Zafin cross-functional teams for our customers
- This role leads projects and is responsible to prepare, manage, and execute plans, and ensures priorities in the strategic roadmap are well designed and governed to achieve desired results for Zafin’s customers
- Owning and managing the project assigned, to ensure smooth and quality delivery on time
- Plan, co-ordinate, monitor and ensure the various activities required for the successful completion of the assigned project on schedule & within budget and manage the project team
- Provides technical direction for the development, design and systems integration for client engagement from definition phase through implementation of projects
- Managing technical risks throughout the project and balance technical requirements with conflicting customer needs. Navigate a technical solution which will work for all parties
- Create and execute project plans for a successful and smooth delivery experience for Zafin’s customers
- Collaborate with cross-functional virtual teams in planning and execution to deliver on objectives of relevant transformation programs and strategic projects
- Drive governance meetings with stakeholders, both internal and external
- Review activities on a cross-functional basis to ensure dependencies are identified, tracked, and addressed and roadblocks removed
- Develop project-level reports and presentations to help facilitate leadership-level discussions across the organization
- Foster a ‘one team’ environment; influence and motivate teams with no direct authority over them and coach them through change
- To develop and maintain the project plan
- To perform Risks/Issues management
- To ensure communication management within the project. Convene team meetings and participate in reviews, walkthroughs etc as and when required
- Effectively communicates relevant project information to project stakeholders and clients/ customers. Sets and manages client expectations. Develops lasting relationships with client personnel that foster client ties
- Keeps Program manager well informed of status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and Program manager
- Reviews the status reports of team members and addresses issues as appropriate
- Complies with and helps to enforce standard policies and procedures
- Must be open to travel onsite as and when required
Our take
Zafin is a global provider of a range of digital transformation solutions for the banking sector, with a focus on relationship-based pricing solutions for enterprise grade financial institutions and banks. Clients include Canada’s big five, and further flung giants like the National Bank of Abu Dhabi.
The problem Zafin is solving is a big one for incumbent banking institutions: legacy frameworks and business practices are relatively cumbersome and byzantine in comparison to the nimbler, snappier challenger and neo banks. This means they’re losing out, particularly with the younger generations, who prefer convenience over institutional pedigree.
Zafin’s solution functions as a neat little workaround, allowing banks keen to digitally transform to dodge the hefty delays and sunk costs of retooling their systems from scratch. Banks globally are scrabbling to compete with their attractive, agile digital-first competitors, so Zafin won’t struggle to find customers. This is especially because it’s expanded to cater to neo-banks, too. With such a broad scope and a strong reputation of its own, Zafin is a confident, highly relevant company, which makes it no surprise that Nordic Capital bought it out in 2024. This acquisition will accelerate Zafin's growth and product development roadmap.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2019
$17m
LATE VC
Sep 2014
$15m
LATE VC
Total funding: $32m
Company benefits
- Flexible work arrangements - includes opportunities for hybrid work, flexible hours, flexible locations, and various types of paid leave
- Meaningful recognition - we truly value our team members’ contributions and ensure that their achievements are properly recognized and rewarded through areas such as incentive opportunities
- Ownership - we offer a stock option plan that is exclusively for employees who share our sense of purpose and create value that keeps us on our A-game
Company HQ
Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Al Karim Somji
(Boardmember & Co-Founder)Previously the President of OpCom Solutions, then CEO of Eftia OSS Solutions.
Anugopal Venugopalan
(COO & Co-Founder)Began his career as a Product Manager at Fujitsu ICIM, before moving on to serve as the Director of Pre-Sales at Eftia OSS Solutions.
Dinesh Krishnan
(Chief Commercial Officer & Co-Founder)Previously in management at SBI Capital Markets, before moving on to serve as Vice President of DSP Merrill Lynch.
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