Assistant Director-Corporate Credit Origination Project Manager

Job purpose

We are seeking a senior Corporate Credit Origination Project Manager with strong corporate and commercial lending domain expertise and hands-on experience managing technology-enabled credit-origination initiatives.

The selected candidate will take end-to-end ownership of the remediation and enhancement of an existing corporate credit-origination platform. The role requires a strong techno-functional professional who can assess implementation gaps, define a practical remediation roadmap, and drive execution across business, credit, operations, risk, compliance, and technology teams. The candidate will be based onsite in Bahrain and must be capable of independently engaging senior stakeholders, challenging existing approaches, resolving crossfunctional issues, and driving the initiative to successful completion.

Key responsibilities

Corporate Credit Origination and Domain

Lead the end-to-end remediation and enhancement of the bank’s existing corporate credit-origination platform and associated processes.

Assess current credit-origination workflows, identify implementation gaps, determine root causes, and define a prioritized remediation roadmap.

Review and improve the end-to-end corporate lending lifecycle, including credit application, assessment, approval, documentation, limit setup, disbursement readiness, renewals, amendments, and monitoring.

Ensure platform workflows align with the bank’s credit policies, approval authorities, risk controls, regulatory requirements, and operating procedures.

Identify process inefficiencies, manual interventions, control gaps, approval delays, and user-adoption challenges, and recommend practical improvements.

Facilitate workshops with relationship management, credit, risk, operations, legal, compliance, and creditadministration teams to finalize business requirements and priorities.

Define and track measurable improvements in credit turnaround time, workflow efficiency, control effectiveness, exception management, and user adoption.

Technology and Techno-Functional Delivery

Translate credit-domain and operational requirements into process maps, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technology deliverables.

Review the existing solution design, configuration, workflows, business rules, approval matrices, and makerchecker controls to identify remediation requirements.

Coordinate platform integrations with core banking, customer, risk-rating, collateral, documentmanagement, limit-management, and reporting systems.

Oversee data assessment, mapping, cleansing, migration, reconciliation, and correction activities required to improve platform data quality.

Work with technical teams to investigate platform issues using system logs, database queries, SQL-based analysis, interface monitoring, and defect reports.

Lead system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, defect prioritization, and testexit approvals.

Oversee release planning, cutover, production deployment, stabilization, and post-implementation support.

Ensure the solution meets information-security, role-based access, segregation-of-duties, audit-trail, dataprivacy, and technology-control requirements.

Manage technology vendors and system integrators, ensuring clear deliverables, ownership, quality standards, and adherence to agreed timelines.

Program Leadership and Governance

Take end-to-end ownership of the initiative and drive execution across business, credit, operations, risk, technology, and vendor teams.

Develop and manage the project plan covering scope, milestones, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and success measures.

Establish governance forums and provide clear progress updates, risk assessments, remediation status, and decision requirements to senior management.

Resolve cross-functional issues, remove delivery roadblocks, manage scope changes, and escalate critical risks requiring executive intervention.

Drive stakeholder communication, business readiness, user training, change management, and adoption across impacted teams.

Ensure complete documentation and effective handover to business, operations, technology-support, and platform-ownership teams.

Key competencies

10+ years of overall experience in banking, financial services, consulting, or banking technology, with substantial experience in corporate or commercial lending.

Strong understanding of the end-to-end corporate credit lifecycle, including:

▪ Customer and borrower onboarding

▪ Credit application and proposal preparation

▪ Financial and non-financial assessment

▪ Credit analysis and risk grading

▪ Collateral and covenant management

▪ Credit approval and delegated authority workflows

▪ Documentation and drawdown readiness

▪ Annual reviews, renewals, amendments, and monitoring

Proven experience leading the implementation, enhancement, remediation, or transformation of corporate credit-origination platforms and processes.

Strong knowledge of corporate and commercial lending products, credit policies, approval structures, risk controls, and credit administration processes.

Experience identifying process and system gaps in an existing implementation and converting the findings into an executable remediation roadmap.

Experience working with relationship managers, credit analysts, credit risk teams, operations teams, and technology delivery teams.

Strong hands-on understanding of the following technology areas is essential

▪ Corporate credit-origination systems, lending platforms, workflow solutions, or credit lifecycle applications.

▪ Business-process and workflow configuration, including approval routing, maker-checker controls, exception handling, escalations, and delegated authority matrices.

▪ System integration concepts, including APIs, web services, middleware, batch interfaces, and integration with core banking, customer, risk, collateral, document-management, and reporting systems.

▪ Data mapping, data migration, data reconciliation, data-quality assessment, and referencedata management.

▪ Functional requirements, process maps, user stories, acceptance criteria, solution-design reviews, and traceability matrices.

▪ SQL and database concepts, with the ability to work with technical teams during data analysis, reconciliation, troubleshooting, and defect investigation.

▪ Testing lifecycle management, including system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, defect management, and test-exit criteria.

▪ Release, cutover, production deployment, stabilization, and post-implementation support processes.

▪ Role-based access, information security, audit trails, segregation of duties, and technology controls relevant to banking platforms.

▪ Reporting and dashboard requirements for credit pipeline, approval status, turnaround time, exceptions, limits, covenants, and portfolio monitoring.

▪ Agile, waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies and associated project-management tools.

Strong ownership and accountability, with the ability to independently drive a complex, bank-wide initiative.

Ability to bridge the gap between credit-domain stakeholders and technology delivery teams.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly in diagnosing implementation and process issues.

Excellent stakeholder-management, facilitation, negotiation, and conflict-resolution capabilities.

A master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Technology, or a related field