Enterprise PMO Lead in Abu Dhabi

Summary

Andersen is hiring an Enterprise PMO Lead in Abu Dhabi for a transformation program focused on governance, operations improvement, and business process optimization.

The customer is a leading publicly listed financial services company in the Middle East, operating under strict regulatory supervision and combining a strong financial foundation with a modern trading infrastructure. The organization focuses on innovation, sustainable growth, and regional market leadership, acting as a key liquidity provider for major listed enterprises and supporting the stability of a national stock exchange. It also develops advanced mobile investment solutions and actively invests in social and healthcare initiatives as part of its corporate responsibility strategy.

The project is focused on a strategic back-office transformation program aimed at improving governance, coordination, and operational processes. It includes stakeholder and vendor management, program oversight, and supporting implementation activities to ensure effective delivery and alignment across business and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Setting up and managing the PMO governance structure for the back-office transformation program.
• Maintaining the master program plan, milestones, RAID log, decision log, dependency tracker, and governance calendar.
• Defining reporting cadence, escalation routes, steering committee structure, and program controls.
• Ensuring all parties are clear on ownership, deadlines, deliverables, risks, and required decisions.
• Working closely with the CFO, CTO, business heads, Andersen, KGiSL, and other stakeholders.
• Preparing executive-level status reports, steering committee packs, dashboards, and decision papers.
• Translating complex program activity into clear, concise updates for senior leadership.
• Ensuring open risks, delays, blockers, and decisions are escalated early and properly documented.
• Coordinating the overall back-office transformation roadmap.
• Tracking progress across requirements, due diligence, implementation planning, testing, migration, cutover, training, and go-live readiness.
• Ensuring business, technology, legal, compliance, finance, and vendor workstreams remain aligned.
• Supporting business readiness and ensuring implementation activity stays connected to Al Ramz’s operating priorities.
• Coordinating the due diligence process related to the acquisition or transfer of back-office code from KGiSL.
• Organizing inputs from business, technology, legal, finance, compliance, Andersen, and KGiSL.
• Tracking document requests, open questions, workshops, findings, risks, actions, and decisions.
• Ensuring due diligence outcomes are converted into clear recommendations, action plans, and implementation implications.
• Coordinating across Al Ramz, Andersen, KGiSL, and other third-party vendors.
• Tracking vendor deliverables, dependencies, open actions, risks, and unresolved decisions.
• Ensuring vendor commitments are clear, measurable, and properly followed up.
• Escalating gaps, delays, unclear ownership, or weak delivery discipline when needed.

Requirements

• Experience in Enterprise PMO, Program Management, Transformation Governance, or Strategic Program Delivery for 4+ years.
• Strong experience in PMO methodology, governance, program controls, and executive reporting
• Experience working in financial services, capital markets, brokerage, banking, fintech, investment platforms, or similar regulated environments
• Experience coordinating complex business and technology transformation programs
• Strong stakeholder management across senior leadership, business, IT, finance, legal, compliance, and vendors
• Experience preparing steering committee materials, executive dashboards, decision papers, and program status reports
• Experience managing multi-vendor environments
• Financial services transformation exposure
• Ability to simplify complex topics for CFO / CTO-level stakeholders
• Ability to drive accountability across multiple parties
• Level of English – Upper-Intermediate or above.

Reasons to join us

• Andersen cooperates with such companies as Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, BNP Paribas, Allianz, Ryanair, TUI, Verivox, Media Markt, etc..
• For the past four years, our company has been growing annually by 60–100%, and we constantly involve top-notch specialists in our team.
• Andersen has mentoring and adaptation systems for new employees, and transparent performance review and assessment systems will allow you to determine your development path and plan your growth.
• The most important thing that we value in our employees is a commitment to continuous learning. The company supports them in this and gives them access to the best educational platforms, seminars, and practices. In addition, for over 19 years, Andersen has assembled a huge knowledge base and established a robust resource management institution.
• We have been strengthening our expertise since 2007. During this time, we have formed excellent teams with streamlined processes, where you can learn something new from your colleagues every day and enjoy your work.
• We are a cool young team of like-minded people communicating informally.
• You'll have a stable and competitive salary and an extensive benefits package.
• At Andersen, we have many different ways to grow. You can improve as a specialist or a manager, and all your activities will be decently rewarded.

Join us!

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The United Arab Emirates