Senior Project Manager

Overview

As Senior Project Manager in Lending, you will steer large, complex client programs through the full lending lifecycle. You’ll lead high-visibility delivery, coordinate global, cross-functional teams, and safeguard scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk. The role blends delivery excellence with domain insight, commercial stewardship, and executive stakeholder management. You’ll work within Zensar’s experience-led vision to shape fintech outcomes for major enterprises. This is an opportunity to drive meaningful, governance-backed delivery at scale across diverse client engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of large, complex client projects across the lending lifecycle
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary global teams to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes
• Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk with predictable results
• Drive governance, budgeting, reporting, and change control in line with contractual obligations
• Engage and inform executive stakeholders with clear, fact-based statuses and options
• Operate with Planview and Monday.com to maintain plans, risks, and financials; forecast resources and budgets
• Represent the company onsite when needed and maintain strong client relationships
• Identify process improvements through cross-functional collaboration to add client value

Key requirements

• 5–10 years’ experience delivering professional service type projects in vendor/client contexts for large organisations
• Strong knowledge of project management standards, processes, and guidelines
• Understanding of IT project methodologies and life cycles; able to articulate agile applicability and trade-offs
• Knowledge of financial services/fintech domains or willingness to gain domain expertise
• Negotiation, analysis, problem-solving, team and conflict management, and time management skills
• Energetic, discreet, patient, and able to drive programs forward despite delays
• Willingness to travel

• negotiation
• communication
• leadership
• Planview
• Monday.com
• project budgeting and forecasting

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