Our client, a well known entity in the Financial Services industry, is looking for an experienced project manager to join their project management office.

The ideal candidate will be an energetic and adaptable self-starter with a can-do attitude who thinks on their feet and equally sees the big picture and the detail. Both an individual and a team player willing to learn and share learnings with the intention of improving and maturing the PMO capability and service offering to the business.

Responsibilities include:
Project Delivery Management

  • Taking a project from inception, and formulating a plan to deliver all aspects through implementation and completion
  • Defining project objectives, scope, impacts, outputs, cost, benefits and success criteria in collaboration with business champions, management and key stakeholders;

  • Managing the people, processes and technology required to deliver solutions effectively according to the project requirements

  • Leading cross functional project teams by task assignment and following up to ensure on-time completion
  • Ensuring delivery of the required output(s) for each phase or stage
  • Creating and controlling all project management related documents
  • Conducting post implementation reviews and defining recommendations based on best practices and lessons learnt
  • Understanding and ensuring that the business requirements have been understood and correctly interpreted

Issues and Risk Management

  • Identifying and mitigating risks that may negatively impact the project
  • Escalating key decisions, unresolved issues and risks

Budget / Financial Control

  • Managing the project budget by forecasting requirements, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective action
  • Participating in RFP and procurement processes

People Management

  • Mentoring team members on structured methodology and best practices
  • Providing regular and timely feedback to team members and management

Quality Management

  • Applying quality management principles and processes
  • Ensuring all work is undertaken within the organization standards and processes
  • Ensuring required documentation is complete, current and stored appropriately

Communication/Reporting

  • Conducting regular project reviews and accurately communicating the status of the project
  • Producing management reports using established IT Portfolio Management methodology
  • Establishing and updating plans with actuals and forecasts

Requirements:

  • Relevant 3 year tertiary or NQF aligned qualification
  • Project Management certification – Prince 2 and Scrum an advantage.

  • Minimum of 7 years’ experience in programme and project management

  • Managed at least 5 IT or IT related projects through the complete project management lifecycle
  • Agile Project Management experience
  • Proven track record of delivering business and IT projects
  • Deep understanding and experience of Project Management methodologies
  • Ability to develop Business Cases or Feasibility studies to justify initiatives for approval by the Executive team
  • Ability to align the IT Projects being executed to Business Requirements throughout the programs and projects lifecycle
  • Strong facilitation and communication skills at multiple stakeholder levels
  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
  • Strong leadership ability of direct and virtual teams
  • Solid organizational skills
  • Proactive Risk and Issue Management skills
  • Ability to analyze the impact of change on the Business, Programs and Projects and put required actions in place
  • Financial Service industry experience
  • Excellent multi-tasking ability
  • Attention to detail and working to deadlines essential

Desired Skills:

  • Project Management
  • Prince 2
  • Scrum

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