As the PMO Manager at Velocity FincrimeSolutions Suite, you will be responsible for managing the IT Project Management Office. Your role includes overseeing the IT Project Portfolio Governance, enforcing project management frameworks, and ensuring successful execution of all IT projects. Additionally, you will drive continuous improvements within the PMO program and take a hands-on project management role for critical IT initiatives while leading a team of project managers and coordinators. Your key responsibilities will involve being accountable for the IT Portfolio processes, implementing project management standards, supervising and mentoring the project management team, creating staffing plans, analysing project proposals, providing leadership to project teams, ensuring effective project communication, managing project risks and issues, aligning project goals with business objectives, employing agile/scrum methodologies, and facilitating self-organizing agile teams. To be successful in this role, you should hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, along with a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. You should have a minimum of 7+ years of experience in project management of complex IT projects, a deep understanding of agile frameworks, a background in Business Analysis, and proven experience managing an IT Portfolio or PMO. Strong leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills, as well as excellent written and verbal communication abilities, are essential. Experience in software product development life cycles and the banking or financial services domain is also required.,
You will be joining Velocity FinCrimeSolutions Suite as a Principal Consultant in the financial crime domain to contribute to the implementation of Financial Crime and Compliance Management solutions. In this Techno-Functional role, you will report directly to the Project Engagement Lead and collaborate closely with Technical and Functional subject matter experts from the Financial Institution, as well as the technical and product team from Alacer. **Key Responsibilities:** - Assist the Engagement Project Lead in deploying Alacer's Financial Crime solutions in a customer environment. - Coordinate with the customer's technical and business functional team to ensure the smooth implementation of Alacer's financial crime solution. - Act as a Product Owner. - Support all phases of deploying the Financial Crime solution at customer sites, including initial installation, patches, upgrades, application configuration, user acceptance testing, and go-live. - Discuss and document the configuration of the client environment. - Adopt and contribute to Financial Crime solutions best practice methodologies for knowledge dissemination. - Understand system security principles, specifically around user authorization and authentication methods and technologies. - Demonstrate strong customer interaction skills and the ability to assess a client's IT processes and strategies. - Lead clients through the process of integrating VFCS's solutions into their operational environment. - Be mature, self-starting, self-motivating, and capable of making independent decisions. - Must be willing to travel to any location worldwide depending on project needs. - Create BRD, FSD, TSD, and other related documents. - Collaborate with R&D developers on the ETL for core system integrations. - Participate in Pre-sales and RFI responses. - Lead the analytics requirements of a product's roadmap offering. - Research data to develop features and models that help determine customer risk related to fraud and money laundering in consumer banking. - Define and support analytics technology selections and POCs. - Educate and support development teams in analytics content development. **Qualifications:** - An experienced analyst with a broad understanding of Financial Crime Management solutions, industry best practices, and multiple business processes or technology designs within a product/technology family. - More than 3+ years of experience in Financial Crime & Compliance domain. - Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud, and/or Identity resolution experience within retail banking. - 3+ years of experience as a business analyst or compliance system with expertise in NICE-Actimize, FCCM Mantas, or other AML solutions. - Proficiency in database and SQL scripting. - Ability to operate independently to provide quality work products and meet customer needs. - Applies Alacer's methodology, procedures, and leading practices effectively. - Demonstrates expertise in delivering functional and technical solutions on moderately complex customer engagements. - Consult management (with IT/Compliance) of customer organizations effectively. - Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience preferred. - Product or technical expertise relevant to practice focus. - Effective communication skills, ability to build rapport with team members and clients, and willingness to travel as required. Please note that as part of Alacer's employment process, successful candidates will undergo a pre-employment screening process encompassing identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification, and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).,
Description Job Summary : The Principal Consultant - Financial Crime & Compliance (FCC) will be responsible for leading client engagements focused on financial crime prevention, regulatory compliance, and risk management across the banking and financial services sector. This role combines deep domain expertise, advisory capability, and delivery leadership to help clients design, implement, and optimize their compliance programs in line with global regulations and industry best practices. Key Responsibilities Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Counter-Terrorist Financing (CTF), Sanctions Compliance, Fraud Risk, and Customer Due Diligence (CDD/KYC). Advise clients on global and local regulatory frameworks such as FATF, FCA, FinCEN, MAS, HKMA, and EU AML Directives. Assess existing compliance frameworks and recommend enhancements to policies, procedures, and controls. Support clients in developing remediation plans for regulatory findings or audits. Lead end-to-end project delivery including business analysis, process re-engineering, and technology enablement for financial crime compliance solutions. Collaborate with technology teams to design and implement systems for AML monitoring, sanctions screening, and KYC onboarding (e.g., Oracle FCCM, Actimize, SAS AML, Fircosoft, etc. Define data, analytics, and reporting requirements to support compliance monitoring and Oversee testing, validation, and rollout of compliance systems and models. Contribute to the development of financial crime consulting offerings, methodologies, and frameworks. Publish white papers, thought leadership articles, and represent the firm at industry forums and regulatory discussions. Mentor junior consultants and build domain capability within the team. Build trusted relationships with client executives, compliance officers, and regulators. Partner with cross-functional teams - legal, operations, risk, and technology - to ensure alignment with compliance objectives. Manage project budgets, timelines, and deliverables to ensure successful outcomes. Required Qualifications 3 - 5 years of experience in financial crime compliance, risk advisory, or consulting within financial services. In-depth knowledge of AML, sanctions, anti-bribery & corruption, fraud risk, and KYC/CDD requirements. Proven experience in implementing or advising on FCC technology solutions and compliance transformation programs. Strong understanding of banking processes, regulatory expectations, and industry trends. Excellent stakeholder management, presentation, and communication skills (ref:hirist.tech)
Description Job Summary : The Quality Assurance (QA) Manager Automation Testing is responsible for leading the QA team in designing, developing, and implementing automated testing frameworks and strategies to ensure product quality and reliability. This role combines hands-on automation expertise with leadership skills to drive continuous improvement in testing efficiency, accuracy, and coverage. Key Responsibilities Lead, mentor, and manage a team of QA engineers and automation testers. Define and implement automation testing strategies aligned with business and product goals. Collaborate with development, DevOps, and product teams to ensure seamless integration of automated testing throughout the CI/CD pipeline. Establish quality metrics and KPIs to measure and improve testing effectiveness. Design, build, and maintain scalable and reusable automation frameworks for web, API, and mobile applications. Identify suitable tools and technologies for automation based on project requirements (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, RestAssured, etc. Ensure test coverage, maintainability, and reliability of automation scripts. Oversee test case design, execution, and defect tracking using tools like JIRA, TestRail, or Zephyr. Enforce QA best practices, coding standards, and test management processes. Drive root cause analysis of defects and ensure corrective/preventive actions are implemented. Ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, policies, and procedures. Work closely with product owners, developers, and DevOps teams to identify automation opportunities and integrate testing into development workflows. Provide regular quality status reports and insights to leadership. Support release readiness and production validation activities. Required Qualifications Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 7+ years of experience in QA, including at least 3 years in a managerial or lead role. Proven expertise in test automation for web, API, and mobile applications. Strong hands-on experience with automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, TestNG, JUnit). Proficiency in scripting/programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or C#. Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps). Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile, and DevOps methodologies. Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills (ref:hirist.tech)