Project Manager Sr Lead - Lending

Position Type

Full time

Type Of Hire

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

As the world works and lives faster, FIS is leading the way. Our fintech solutions touch nearly every market, company, and person on the planet. Our teams are inclusive and diverse. Our colleagues work together and celebrate together. If you want to advance the world of fintech, we’d like to ask you~ Are you FIS?

Role location~ Hybrid (three days in-office, two days virtual)

As a Senior Project Manager within the Lending business, you will lead the delivery of large, complex client projects across the full lending lifecycle. You will manage high‑visibility delivery, coordinate multi‑disciplinary global teams, and ensure predictable outcomes across scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk. This role blends delivery excellence, domain expertise, commercial stewardship, and executive‑level stakeholder management.

What You Will Be Doing

• Taking full responsibility for all aspects of managing your portfolio of projects, including detailed budgeting and tracking, project administration and leading a diverse team of consultants and specialists day-to-day.
• Influencing client and FIS stakeholders at a high level by careful, confident factual presentation of relevant project statuses, using your ability to understand and articulate alternative approaches that drive meaningful governance of the projects.
• Applying quality standards and holding teams within and outside of FIS accountable for delivering according to contractual agreements; using change control procedures to reflect deviations from scope, timing or assumptions made in project definition
• Mastering a complex ecosystem of enterprise project management tools such as Planview and Monday.com to develop and maintain accurate project plans, analyse risks and issues, forecast resource usage levels and budget overruns or underruns, and generate invoices, status reports and other PM deliverables consistent with FIS best practice
• Showing confident ownership and coordination even under pressure when running video conferences, team meetings or when visiting client sites as sometimes required to represent FIS onsite for key client projects. You will develop your abilities as an intuitive communicator
• Thinking beyond the obvious and actively working your network across all functions within FIS to identify possible process improvements, helping the company succeed and deliver even more value to our clients
  
  

What You Bring

• At least 5-10 years’ experience of delivering professional service type projects in a vendor/client context for large and challenging organizations, with extensive knowledge of project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines
• Understanding of IT project methodologies and life cycles, e.g., conversions, incremental, rapid delivery, classic or traditional waterfall phases of analysis, design, development, testing, implementation. You should be able to describe confidently the context in which agile methods can be applied, the advantages and disadvantages
• Knowledge of financial services industry or willingness to use existing professional services experience in other bluechip industries to gain expertise in what fintech projects must deliver
• Skill in the use of negotiation techniques to reach agreement when there are widely-differing viewpoints; excellent analysis, problem-solving, team, conflict management and time management skills
• Energy, enthusiasm, confidentiality, discretion and patience to handle difficult situations and continue to drive important projects and programs forward over a long timescale when there are delays and setbacks
• Willingness to travel
  
  

Added bonus if you have

• Experience within the Fintech or Lending domains
• Project Management certification
  
  

What we offer you~ 

At FIS, you can learn, grow and make an impact in your career. Our benefits include~

• Flexible and creative work environment
• Diverse and collaborative atmosphere
• Professional and personal development resources
• Opportunities to volunteer and support charities
• Competitive salary and benefits
  
  

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Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.

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