Description
Location Preference: Tashkent / Almaty / Bishkek
About A&M
A&M is a leading global professional services firm specializing in performance improvement, transformation, and advisory services. Our Financial Services practice supports banks, insurance companies, payment providers, capital markets institutions, and other financial organizations across Central Asia and the broader CIS region.
We are seeking a Project Manager to join our growing Financial Services team and lead strategic, transformation, and implementation projects for financial institutions across the region.
Role Overview
The Project Manager will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and delivering consulting engagements for banks and other financial institutions. The role requires strong project management capabilities, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams in complex and fast-paced environments.
While experience in financial services is important, the primary focus of the role is project leadership, execution excellence, and client management rather than deep subject-matter expertise in a specific banking domain.
Key Responsibilities
Manage consulting projects for banks and other financial institutions.
Develop and maintain project plans, workstreams, governance structures, and delivery schedules.
Coordinate project teams, assign tasks, and monitor execution across multiple workstreams.
Assess resource requirements for projects and support project staffing decisions.
Organize recruitment, onboarding, and coordination of external experts and subcontractors engaged on projects.
Calculate, monitor, and manage project economics, including budgets, resource utilization, profitability, and financial performance.
Manage project risks, dependencies, issues, and escalation processes.
Organize and facilitate working sessions, steering committees, and management meetings, including preparation and timely distribution of meeting minutes.
Build and maintain relationships with senior client stakeholders and executive management teams.
Ensure high quality of project deliverables, recommendations, and client-facing materials.
Monitor project timelines, budgets, and team utilization.
Prepare presentations, analytical materials, and regular project status updates for clients and internal stakeholders.
Support proposal development, project scoping, and business development activities.
Contribute to the development of the Financial Services practice, enhancement of internal methodologies, and continuous improvement of project management approaches.
Typical Projects
Bank strategy development and strategic planning.
Development of strategies for specific business lines within financial institutions.
Launch of new financial products and business lines.
Establishment and launch of depositories and other financial market infrastructure entities.
Islamic banking and Islamic finance initiatives.
Organizational transformation and target operating model design.
Business process reengineering and operational excellence programs.
PMO implementation and project portfolio management.
Corporate governance and change management projects.
Market entry and new business launch initiatives.
Requirements
5+ years of project management experience.
Experience in consulting, banking, financial services, fintech, insurance, or related industries
Demonstrated experience managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders.
Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to coordinate multiple workstreams and teams simultaneously.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
Fluent Russian and English.
Preferred Qualifications
Previous experience in a management consulting environment.
Professional project management certifications (such as PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or similar) are considered a plus.
Experience working with executive management teams, boards, or senior decision-makers.
Understanding of banking products, operations, and financial services industry trends.
What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate becomes a trusted project leader within A&M's Financial Services practice, delivering complex transformation initiatives for leading financial institutions across the region while contributing to the continued growth and development of the practice.
