Project Manager Lead / Senior Project Manager

We are FIS. Our technology powers the world’s economy and our teams bring innovation to life. We champion diversity to deliver the best products and solutions for our colleagues, clients and communities. If you’re ready to start learning, growing and making an impact with a career in fintech, we’d like to know: Are you FIS? About the role: As a Project Manager Lead within the Lending business, you will conduct the delivery of large, complex client projects across the full lending lifecycle. You will manage high‑visibility delivery, coordinate multi‑disciplinary global teams, and ensure predictable outcomes across scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk. This role blends delivery excellence, domain expertise, commercial stewardship, and executive‑level stakeholder management. What you will be doing: Taking full responsibility for all aspects of managing your portfolio of projects, including detailed budgeting and tracking, project administration and leading a diverse team of consultants and specialists day-to-day. Influencing client and FIS stakeholders at a high level by careful, confident factual presentation of relevant project statuses, using your ability to understand and articulate alternative approaches that drive meaningful governance of the projects. Applying quality standards and holding teams within and outside of FIS accountable for delivering according to contractual agreements; using change control procedures to reflect deviations from scope, timing or assumptions made in project definition. Mastering a complex ecosystem of enterprise project management tools such as Planview and Monday.com to develop and maintain accurate project plans, analyze risks and issues, forecast resource usage levels and budget overruns or underruns, and generate invoices, status reports and other Project Managment deliverables consistent with FIS best practice. Showing confident ownership and coordination even under pressure when running video conferences, team meetings or when visiting client sites as sometimes required to represent FIS onsite for key client projects. Thinking beyond the obvious and actively working your network across all functions within FIS to identify possible process improvements, helping the company succeed and deliver value to our clients. What you bring: At least 5-10 years’ experience of delivering professional service type projects in a vendor/client context for large and challenging organizations, with extensive knowledge of project management standards, processes, procedures and guidelines. Understanding of IT project methodologies and life cycles, e.g., conversions, incremental, rapid delivery, classic or traditional waterfall phases of analysis, design, development, testing, implementation. You should be able to describe confidently the context in which agile methods can be applied, the advantages and disadvantages. Knowledge of financial services industry or willingness to use existing professional services experience in other bluechip industries to gain expertise in what fintech projects must deliver. Skill in the use of negotiation techniques to reach agreement when there are widely-differing viewpoints; excellent analysis, problem-solving, team, conflict management and time management skills. Energy, enthusiasm, confidentiality, discretion and patience to handle difficult situations and continue to drive important projects and programs forward over a long timescale when there are delays and setbacks. Willingness to travel. What we offer you: A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities A modern, international work environment and a dedicated and motivated team Convenient office location (Sienna 75 Street, Warsaw) The chance to work on some of the most challenging, relevant issues in financial services & technology Time to support charities and give back in your community A wide range of benefits designed to help support your lifestyle and wellbeing A broad range of professional education and personal development opportunities A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect Privacy Statement FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice. Sourcing Model Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company. #pridepass