Lead Project Manager
About the job
- At least 7 years of end-to-end project management experience.
- Fluency in Arabic is required; native-level proficiency is highly preferred.
- Experience must be with customer-facing projects rather than internal organizational projects.
- Experience in both the theoretical and practical aspects of project management.
- Experience with project management techniques and tools.
- Ability to work within a team environment.
- Direct work experience in a project management capacity.
- Previous experience successfully leading large-scale innovation, growth, and continuous improvement projects in a service environment.
- Plan, execute, and finalize projects according to agreed deadlines and within the client’s budget.
- Coordinate the resources and efforts of consultants and third-party contractors to deliver projects according to plan.
- Apply strong change-control management when required.
- Define project objectives and oversee quality control throughout the project life cycle.
- Establish and maintain working relationships with clients and reinforce the company’s reputation.
- Take financial responsibility for managed projects.
- Ensure projects are executed in line with contractual obligations in a professional, cost-effective, and timely manner.
- Ensure the company achieves or improves upon the planned financial return from each project.
- Produce and maintain project mechanisms.
- Manage project plans from end to end.
- Ensure projects are delivered within scope, budget, and schedule.
- Establish project governance and adhere to the company’s project management methodology.
- Manage project staff and resources.
- Provide effective reporting through regular project status reports and ad hoc reports as appropriate.
- Direct projects from beginning to end, define goals, and support delivery in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- Communicate effectively with project stakeholders and team members.
- Identify and resolve conflicts within the project team.
- Identify and manage project dependencies and the critical path.
- Native-level Arabic proficiency.
About the company
Finastra provides software for banks and other financial institutions, including cloud-based platforms and modular apps for core banking, retail/transaction banking, lending, and treasury. Its products run in the cloud or on-premises as integrated solutions that handle back-end processes, account management, and operations. The company differentiates itself with open platforms and cloud-first approaches, built from the Misys and D+H merger and supported by Vista Equity Partners, used by many large banks. Its goal is to help financial institutions modernize and innovate with scalable, open software across a wide range of services.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$5.3B
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2017
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 28, 2026 SCF and Repair Recommendations launches deepen payments and working-capital offerings.
- Komgo integration on September 16, 2026 expands trade finance reach without replacement friction.
- BNI said January 12, 2026 Finastra Trade Innovation cut onboarding time roughly 25%.
What critics are saying
- Vista explored a full or partial sale in September 2026, signaling ownership instability.
- S&P kept Finastra at B- in July 2025, citing roughly 16x leverage.
- Asset sales shrink revenue; TCM, Universal Banking, and U.S. mid-market exits weaken scale.
What makes Finastra unique
- Finastra powers 90 of top 100 banks with mission-critical payments and lending software.
- Trade Innovation, Loan IQ, and Global PAYplus create sticky cross-sell across banking workflows.
- Nacha named Finastra a Preferred Partner on August 25, 2026, validating ACH expertise.
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Benefits
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Hybrid Work Options
Wellness Program
Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Holidays
Paid Time Off for Volunteering
Family Planning Benefits
Fertility Treatment Support
Career Development
Recognition
Company News
BDO Unibank powers smarter, next-generation payments with Finastra. Oct 06, 2026, 21:00 ET With modern Global PAYplus, BDO is enabling cost efficient modernization, greater automation, and more innovative and flexible payment services for customers MANILA, Philippines, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, today announced that BDO Unibank, Inc. (BDO) has enhanced its payments infrastructure with Finastra's modern Global PAYplus (GPP), reinforcing the bank's ability to support growing transaction volumes, strengthen operational resilience, and advance interoperability across the payments ecosystem. As a leading universal bank in the Philippines, BDO serves retail, commercial, and institutional clients across a broad range of banking and financial services. The bank also supports correspondent banking and fintech partners with payment distribution capabilities into the Philippine market. The deployment of GPP's high-value and mass-payments capabilities provides a scalable foundation for current and future payment requirements. BDO currently utilizes the platform for Swift and inbound PESONet processing and is the largest commercial bank in the Philippines leveraging GPP. With GPP, the bank benefits from greater automation, flexible rule-based payment processing, and improved operational efficiency, while gaining the agility to support evolving industry standards such as ISO 20022 and connect to new domestic and cross-border payment networks as they emerge. "Payments are a critical enabler of commerce and economic activity, making resilient and scalable infrastructure increasingly important," said Carlo B. Nazareno, head of Cash Management Services at BDO. "By enhancing our payments architecture with Finastra's Global PAYplus, we have strengthened our ability to support growing transaction volumes, improve operational efficiency, and adapt to evolving market requirements. This provides a strong foundation for delivering a seamless client experience today while supporting future innovation across the payments ecosystem." "Banks around the world are under growing pressure to deliver payment experiences that are immediate, reliable, and tailored to increasingly diverse customer needs," said Radha Suvarna, Chief Product Officer of Payments at Finastra. "By bringing high-value and mass-payments processing together on Global PAYplus, BDO is reducing complexity while creating a more flexible foundation for innovation. We are proud to support the bank as it advances its payments capabilities and expands the services it can provide to customers. Our partnership demonstrates both the international capabilities of our solution, as well as our commitment to supporting banks with complex requirements, including multiple clearing systems and nuanced corporate client needs." This approach reflects a broader shift in the industry toward unified, AI-enabled payment hubs that consolidate and orchestrate multiple rails. It also reflects the importance of cloud-native, API-enabled architecture, ISO 20022 support, and intelligent operations as important foundations for payments innovation, operational efficiency, and faster time to market. About Finastra Finastra provides the mission-critical software that powers thousands of financial institutions in more than 100 countries - including many of the world's leading banks. Its technology helps financial institutions move money as well as extend and service loans that financial services businesses and consumers rely on every day. Backed by Vista Equity Partners, Finastra combines deep financial services expertise with secure, reliable, and scalable technology to help customers modernize operations, accelerate innovation, and grow their businesses in a rapidly evolving industry. BDO Unibank, Inc. (BDO) is a full-service universal bank which provides a wide range of corporate and retail services such as loan and deposit products, treasury, trust banking, investment banking, private banking, thrift banking and microfinance, cash management, leasing and finance, remittance, life insurance, property & casualty insurance brokerage, cash cards, credit cards, and online and non-online stock brokerage services. BDO has the country's largest distribution network, with over 2,000 consolidated operating branches and more than 7,900 teller machines nationwide. It also has 13 international offices (including full-service branches in Hong Kong and Singapore) in Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East. SOURCE Finastra
Finastra launches Supply Chain Finance module for banks. Finastra has introduced a Supply Chain Finance module and a Repair Recommendations capability, integrating trade, lending and payment-processing workflows via its Nexus API suite. What happened. Finastra has launched Supply Chain Finance (SCF), a new module that connects trade, lending and working-capital services for banks, alongside a separate "Repair Recommendations" capability aimed at streamlining payment processing. The financial services software provider unveiled both offerings this week as additions to its core banking technology stack. SCF is built to integrate with Finastra's existing Trade Innovation and Loan IQ platforms through the company's Nexus API suite, allowing banks to offer connected trade finance, lending and supply chain finance products from a single technology foundation rather than as disconnected systems. The aim, according to Finastra, is to help banks scale working capital programmes more quickly and support growth for their corporate and SME clients. The Repair Recommendations capability, announced alongside SCF, is designed to assist banks in resolving payment processing issues more efficiently, though Finastra has released fewer specifics on how the feature operates in practice. Why it matters. For banks, the real significance lies in integration rather than invention: Finastra is stitching together trade, lending and supply chain finance workflows that have traditionally sat in separate systems, often requiring manual reconciliation between them. By routing this through a common API layer, banks can in principle bring new working-capital products to market faster and with fewer operational handoffs. That matters for digital transformation leaders because working capital and payments are two areas where friction is felt directly by corporate clients - delayed financing decisions, repair queues on failed payments, and disconnected trade documentation all translate into slower cash flow for businesses on the other end. Consolidating these functions onto one platform is as much an operating-model change as a product launch, and it signals where core banking vendors see near-term demand: connected, API-driven infrastructure that banks can configure rather than build from scratch. The renascence take. It's tempting to read this as a routine vendor product update, but the more interesting story is what it reveals about how banks compete on working capital experience. Supply chain finance has historically been sold as a relationship product, but for the corporate treasurer on the receiving end, it behaves like a service experience - speed of approval, visibility into status, and how gracefully exceptions get handled all shape whether a bank is seen as a genuine partner or a bottleneck. A "repair recommendations" feature, even lightly detailed here, hints at a bigger shift: banks are starting to treat payment failures not as back-office exceptions to route around, but as friction points worth engineering away. The operators who get ahead won't be the ones with the most integrated core system - they'll be the ones who translate that integration into a visibly faster, more transparent experience for the business customer actually waiting on the money. This briefing was written by its Newsdesk, synthesising reporting from the outlets below. Follow the links for the original coverage. Questions Renascence get on this topic. It is a module that connects trade, lending and working-capital services for banks, integrating with Finastra's Trade Innovation and Loan IQ platforms through its Nexus API suite so banks can offer these products from one technology foundation. More in Banking Stay ahead of CX Get the signal, not the noise. The stories shaping customer experience - plus the Journal and Experience Loom - in your inbox.
Finastra introduces Supply Chain Finance, Repair Recommendations. Financial services software provider Finastra announced a pair of new offerings this week. Finastra Supply Chain Finance (SCF) will help banks scale working capital programs faster and stimulate growth. SCF is integrated with Finastra's Trade Innovation and Loan IQ platforms via the Nexus API suite and allows banks to offer connected trade, lending, and supply chain finance services. SCF supports buyer and supplier acquisition, onboarding, fulfillment, servicing, risk management, and secondary market distribution. The technology provides straight-through processing and connects with ERP systems and trade ecosystem partners through the Nexus API suite. SCF also offers a rich data foundation for decisioning and portfolio management. The solution is built on a cloud-native architecture and is available via a variety of deployment models, from on-premises to SaaS. "Banks are looking for ways to bring new working capital solutions to market faster to capture new revenue streams delivered through STP journeys, and lower costs, while addressing operational risks and regulatory complexity," Vinay Mendonca, Finastra's Head of Product, Trade Supply Chain Finance and Corporate Channels, said. "By combining new supply chain finance capabilities with Trade Innovation and Loan IQ, we're enabling banks to take a more connected approach to working capital. This launch marks an important milestone in the evolution of our Trade Innovation platform as we look to bring more API, AI, and cloud-led innovation to the market, leveraging our deep expertise in the trade domain, to help institutions innovate and grow." SCF will help banks accelerate product launches, provide holistic working capital management, automate risk distribution, enhance risk management, and scale efficiently thanks to straight-through processing, real-time servicing, and high-performance architecture. Finastra noted that it plans to expand the capabilities of SCF to include purchase order (PO) finance, pre- to post-shipment finance, inventory finance, distributor finance, as well as other working capital solutions. The release of SCF is the company's latest investment in its Trade Innovation and Loan IQ offerings. Trade Innovation is Finastra's digital trade finance platform that enables institutions to automate workflows, reduce risk, and improve working capital efficiency. Loan IQ is the company's commercial and corporate loan management and servicing software. SCF extends Finastra's goal of offering institutions a connected working capital ecosystem through a unified commercial and risk management framework. Finastra also unveiled a new AI-powered capability within its OperatorAssist solution. Repair Recommendations, announced this week, will enable banks to respond faster to rising payment volumes by bringing better decision-making into their existing workflows. The new offering is designed to help banks avoid the kind of errors and disruptions that can hinder traditional payment processing by enabling teams to resolve issues faster, manage higher volumes more efficiently, and boost success rates without introducing additional complexity. Repair Recommendations simplifies complex repair scenarios, identifies payment discrepancies and underlying causes, decreases dependence on specialized expertise, and reduces the amount of time and effort required by payment operations teams to manage and resolve payment exceptions. This allows banks to manage higher payment volumes more efficiently as demand from real-time cross-border activity, infrastructure modernization, and digital commerce continues to grow. "With Repair Recommendations, we're empowering banks to upgrade their payment operations - reducing resolution times and minimizing errors," Barry Rodrigues, Finastra EVP, Payments, said. "As payment volumes increase, AI can help deliver immediate value by accelerating repairs, streamlining onboarding, and strengthening resilience. We're helping banks to scale their operations and deliver faster, more reliable services to their customers." Headquartered in London, Finastra was formed in 2017 through the combination of Finovate alum Misys and D+H. In addition to its loan servicing and trade innovation platforms, Finastra offers solutions for payments (Global PAYplus and Payments to Go), core banking (Essence), mortgages (Mortgagebot), and more.
Finastra launches ai-powered Repair Recommendations for modern payments processing. Sep 29, 2026, 07:00 ET New scheme-aware guidance feature within AI OperatorAssist will streamline payments repair across the lifecycle, reducing complexity and supporting growth MIAMI, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Today at Sibos 2026 in Miami, Finastra announced the launch of Repair Recommendations - a new AI-powered capability within AI OperatorAssist. This move will help banks respond more quickly to growing payment activity by adding smarter decision-making into their existing workflows. Traditional payment processing issues like errors and disruptions cost the industry billions yearly, hinder seamless transactions, and increase manual effort. By implementing Repair Recommendations, teams will be able to resolve issues faster, manage higher volumes more smoothly, and increase success rates without added complexity or manual burden. How Repair Recommendations Will Help Banks Operate More Efficiently * Reduces the time and effort required by payment operations teams - including wire-room operators, exception and repair specialists, and technical support staff - to manage and resolve payment exceptions. * Simplifying complex repair scenarios leads to more consistent exception handling, reduced error rates, and increased operational capacity. * The cloud-native feature will identify payment discrepancies, analyze underlying causes and provide industry-standard schemes and network rule-validated recommendations - such as Swift, Fedwire, SEPA, UPI and Nexus - to ensure accurate and compliant corrections. * Decreases dependence on specialized expertise and accelerates onboarding for new staff by offering reliable repair guidance. * Enables banks to manage higher payment volumes more efficiently as demand rises for real-time cross-border capabilities, infrastructure modernization, and digital commerce. Executive Perspective Barry Rodrigues, EVP, Payments at Finastra, said "With Repair Recommendations, we're empowering banks to upgrade their payment operations - reducing resolution times and minimizing errors. As payment volumes increase, AI can help deliver immediate value by accelerating repairs, streamlining onboarding, and strengthening resilience. We're helping banks to scale their operations, and deliver faster, more reliable services to their customers." "Manual processes continue to pose a major operational risk for financial institutions," said Robin LoGiudice, Strategic Advisor, Datos Insights. "Despite automation advances, payment teams still spend extensive time sourcing data and diagnosing exceptions, making operations costly and slow. AI-powered, validated, scheme-aware recommendations accelerate the gathering, extraction, and analysis of payment information, enabling faster exception resolution while improving efficiency and precision." Advancing Payment Efficiency through Intelligent Guidance Repair Recommendations will complement Global PAYplus and Payments To Go, extending AI OperatorAssist's investigative and analytical foundations as well as enhancing the existing payments processing environment. Recommendations are designed to assist human-decision making, with each action subject to review and approval, thereby enhancing guidance reliability and enabling continuous refinement. The solution reflects Finastra's ongoing commitment to expanding innovative AI capabilities across the payment lifecycle whilst keeping governance and human-in-the-loop at the forefront. Visit Finastra at Sibos on booth #H015. For further information please contact: About Finastra Finastra is a global leader in financial services software, trusted by thousands of customers - including many of the world's top banks - in over 100 countries. Backed by Vista Equity Partners, we partner with financial institutions to deliver modern, reliable technology that helps them adapt, grow, and serve their customers with confidence. Visit www.finastra.com or follow Finastra on LinkedIn. SOURCE Finastra
Finastra has launched Supply Chain Finance (SCF), a cloud-based platform designed to help banks scale working capital programmes and accelerate growth. Announced at Sibos 2026, the solution integrates with Finastra's Trade Innovation and Loan IQ platforms through the Nexus API suite. The end-to-end platform supports buyer and supplier acquisition, onboarding, fulfilment, servicing, and risk management. It features AI-enabled fraud detection, automated risk distribution, and straight-through processing. The system connects with ERP systems and trade ecosystem partners whilst managing limits and exposures across multiple finance products. Future releases will expand capabilities to include purchase order finance, pre- to post-shipment finance, inventory finance, and distributor finance. The platform is available through flexible deployment models, from on-premise to SaaS.