Project Manager at Cross Border Platform · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 1 - 2 years · ₹4L - ₹6L / yr · Posted 30 Nov 2023

Role - Project Manager
About the Company
The global trade market, valued at USD 32 trillion, offers abundant opportunities for growth and innovation in international trade. As our world becomes more interconnected, there is a growing demand for efficient and secure cross-border solutions. Traditional remittance methods have been burdened with high costs, slow processing times, and limited accessibility, creating significant challenges. These obstacles have particularly impacted MSMEs, which often lack the resources to navigate complex financial systems, leading to time-consuming operational hurdles on a day-to-day basis. We empower businesses, particularly MSMEs, to unlock new growth opportunities, expand their reach globally, and navigate the complexities of international trade.
Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to oversee [specific type or area of projects] within our organization. The ideal candidate should possess exceptional leadership, organizational, and communication skills, with a strong ability to plan, execute, and finalize projects while adhering to strict deadlines and within budget.
Key Responsibilities:
● Lead, plan, execute, and finalize projects according to strict deadlines and within budget, ensuring project objectives are met.
● Define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
● Develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents, directing the team's efforts efficiently and effectively.
● Manage project resource allocation, identifying and resolving resource conflicts, and ensuring proper resource utilization.
● Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear manner.
● Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis, ensuring effective communication and managing expectations.
● Identify and manage project risks and develop risk mitigation strategies.
● Conduct project post-mortems and create a recommendations report to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
● Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management.
Qualifications and Skills:
● Bachelor's degree in a related field; PMP / Agile certification
● 1 or 2 years of proven experience in project management, with a track record of successfully delivering projects on time, within budget, and scope.
● Strong understanding of project management methodologies and tools.
● Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
● Proficient in project management software/tools.
● Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
● Strong organizational and time management skills.

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Job Summary
Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing, monitoring, and successfully delivering technology projects within agreed scope, timeline, budget, and quality standards. The role requires close coordination with business stakeholders, technical teams and senior management to ensure projects achieve their intended business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource requirements.
- Lead cross-functional teams including developers, infrastructure, QA, and business analysts.
- Coordinate release planning, sprint goals, release timelines, dependencies, and deployment activities.
- Manage project scope, risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
- Track project progress and provide regular status reports to stakeholders and management.
- Identify potential risks and implement appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
- Coordinate requirements gathering and ensure alignment between business and technical teams.
- Facilitate project meetings, reviews and steering committee meetings.
- Ensure projects follow organizational IT governance, security, compliance, and quality standards.
- Coordinate testing, deployment, implementation, and transition to operational teams.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and resolve conflicts or escalated issues.
- Manage testing, deployment, documentation, and project closure.
- Conduct project closure activities and evaluate project performance and outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of experience in IT project management or a related technology role.
- Proven experience managing end-to-end IT projects.
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies.
- Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC), IT infrastructure, cloud technologies, or enterprise applications, depending on the project portfolio.
- Strong communication, leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Key Skills
- Project planning and execution
- Stakeholder management
- Risk and issue management
- Budget and resource management
- Agile/Scrum methodology
- Change management
- Team leadership
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
- Reporting and documentation
- Strategic thinking and problem solving
Require Experience : Minimum 8 years
Location : Indore -Onsite
Interview mode : Virtual
Project Manager – Capital Markets
Chella Software are a global software provider of fintech solutions for central banks, exchanges, central counter parties, and financial market intermediaries. They meet the software needs of customers in India, the Middle East, Africa, Singapore, and the USA.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Project Planning & Documentation
2. Risk & Dependency Management
3. Stakeholder & Client Communication
4. Review & Governance Cadence
5. Reporting & Visibility
6. Coordination & Collaboration
7. Client Relationship Management
We are looking for a detail-oriented Project Planning professional to manage project timelines, documentation, and stakeholder coordination. The role involves maintaining and updating project planning templates including milestones, deliverables, risk logs, and dependency trackers. You will be responsible for driving regular review cadences (weekly/fortnightly), stakeholder meetings, and ensuring clear communication with clients including MOMs, scope changes, and escalations. The candidate will identify bottlenecks, manage internal and external dependencies, and ensure smooth cross-functional coordination. Additionally, the role requires maintaining visibility across projects, managing escalation matrices, and supporting timeline renegotiations when required. Strong organizational skills, communication, and proficiency in Excel and PPT are essential.
Interview process
1st round Virtual
2nd round Face to Face
Skills:
Required Skills & Qualifications
- M.B.A or equivalent in sales and marketing with a B.E / B.Tech in Computer Science, Information Systems, Electrical, Electronics or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in a IT Project management
- Ability to understand and explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Basic knowledge of databases, APIs, and enterprise systems integration.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- An analytical mindset with attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Familiarity with capital markets concepts such as trade lifecycle, securities
- settlement, depositories, custodians, and regulations will be an advantage.
Strong IT Project Manager Profile with cross-functional delivery and Agile/Scrum ownership and Insurance domain exposure
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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 6+ years of proven experience as an IT Project Manager, with atleast the recent 3+ years in insurance industry leading cross-functional teams and delivering IT projects on time, within scope, and within budget
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Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have experience collaborating with business, development, QA, and architecture teams to define project goals and success criteria
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Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have hands-on experience facilitating sprint planning, backlog grooming, and daily stand-ups for efficient Agile/Scrum execution
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Mandatory (Experience 4): Must have experience monitoring project performance, identifying and resolving risks and issues, and maintaining detailed project documentation (charters, plans, status reports)
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Mandatory (Experience 5): Must have experience mentoring and leading a team of developers
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Mandatory (Skill 1): Must have strong command of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies (Fixed Bid project experience a plus)
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Mandatory (Skill 2): Must have excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal/communication skills to engage senior management and clients
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Mandatory (Skill 3): Must have strong analytical thinking — able to analyse complex problems, identify solutions, and make informed decisions
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Mandatory (Tools): Must be hands-on with JIRA, MS Project, and similar tools
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Mandatory (Domain): Insurance domain expertise — IT projects within insurance, with an understanding of processes, regulations, and customer needs
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Mandatory (Note): Candidate should be willing to work during EST shift (9.30 PM-6.30 AM) if needed as the client is based in US and they have US clients
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Preferred (Commercial): Experience managing gross margins, project cost, P&L, and profitability.
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Preferred (Certification): PMP, PRINCE2, or Scrum Master certification
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Preferred (Domain Knowledge): Familiarity with digital transformation, automation, and emerging technologies in insurance







