Project Management Manager - Finance Strategy and Transformation

Title: Project Management Manager Department: Finance Strategy and Transformation Location: Riyadh Core Responsibilities: - Lead the design, continuous enhancement, and governance of the master COA structure, segment rules, and validation logic in Oracle GL. - Drive the functional integration and mapping logic between the Core Banking Systems and Oracle GL, ensuring seamless automated postings for core banking products. - Oversee interface health, eliminate mapping breaks or unmapped accounts, and establish automated reconciliation checks between Core Banking Systems and Oracle GL. - Define and execute the change management workflow for COA change requests, ensuring alignment with transformation roadmaps and target operating models. - Establish robust processes to generate automated financial reports such as Trial Balances, Balance Sheets, and Income Statements directly from financial systems. - Ensure GL structure and mapping support Central Bank regulatory reporting requirements and automated data extraction. - Operationalize new and existing accounting standards across system mappings such as IFRS 9, IFRS 16 and IFRS 18. - IFRS 18: Lead system presentation and COA mapping adjustments to comply with updated primary financial statement structure and disclosure mandates. - Work closely with Financial Reporting team and MI team to streamline the reporting requirements for Finance Control Department. - Identify process bottlenecks, manual workarounds, and legacy GL inefficiencies, driving digital automation solutions across financial control workflows. - Represent Finance Transformation in key cross-functional projects (system upgrades, core banking migration/enhancements, sub-ledger deployments). - Maintain comprehensive documentation of end-to-end mapping architecture, system interfaces, and operational controls for internal stakeholders and auditors. - Act as the Finance Data Steward for key financial data domains, ensuring clear ownership, accountability and effective data governance. - Define and maintain Critical Data Elements (CDEs) across Finance, maintain the data glossary and the metadata repository for Finance ensuring consistent interpretation and usage. - Establish and monitor Finance Data Quality (DQ) rules, Controls, KPIs and coordinate with the relevant stakeholders to investigate and remediate the identified DQ issues. - Actively contributes to high preforming team environment through knowledge sharing, peer collaboration, and supporting team goals. Qualifications and Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Financial Information Systems. Professional qualification (SOCPA, CPA, ACCA) is preferred. - Experience in financial accounting, COA management, or finance transformation within banking or financial institutions in Saudi Arabia. - Hands-on experience administering Oracle GL preferred (COA hierarchies, cross-validation rules, mapping modules). - Direct experience with Core Banking System interface design, transactional flows, and GL extracts. - Strong affinity for digital finance tools, data mapping automation, and system integration projects. - Working knowledge of Central Bank reporting guidelines and regulatory requirements. - Deep practical understanding of IFRS and their structural impact on financial reporting.