PROJECT MANAGER

An established company within the financial sector is seeking to hire a highly skilled and experienced Project Manager to join their team. This is an excellent opportunity for an professional with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to grow their career within a reputable organisation. Your:: Education: Relevant University degree (B.Sc. / B. Com or similar) PMP, PRINCE 2 or equivalent qualification Experience Required: Experience in project management, preferably in Financial Services with a minimum of 8 - 12 years Competencies and skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Proven ability to develop and maintain strong client relationships. Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills. Strong project management and organizational skills. Ability to work independently and with a team to meet deadlines. Will enable you to do the following. Duties: An IT project manager's responsibilities involve the end-to-end management of technology projects, including defining project goals, creating budgets and schedules, allocating resources, leading and motivating project teams, and monitoring progress from start to finish. Key duties include risk management, budget control, stakeholder communication, ensuring quality and compliance, and acting as a liaison between business and technical teams to deliver solutions on time and within scope. Responsibilities: Planning & Defining Scope: Establish project objectives, deliverables, and scope, and create detailed project plans. Delivery Management: Support the delivery of the projects through the full project lifecycle, from initiation through to implementation. Develop and maintain an end-to-end portfolio plan that delivers the agreed scope of the project to time, budget, and quality criteria. Ensure project timelines are realistic and aligned with the strategic project commitments. Use a change management system to manage changes and track impediments that impacts the delivery of projects. Input into the overall estimating process for the projects and working collaboratively with the SMEs to estimate the work effort required to deliver the project scope within the agreed timescales and budgets. Act as a central point of communication between stakeholders and the project team, providing regular progress reports. Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies through the full project lifecycle. Ensure mitigation plans are in place for all risks and issues, making fact-based recommendations to facilitate the correct mitigation plans. Support operational readiness planning, communicating with the appropriate stakeholders to facilitate dependency as well as resource management and planning. Facilitate post implementation review and take responsibility for ensuring that lessons learned are captured and shared with the management team. Maintain relationships with all stakeholders of the project portfolio, as well as develop relationships with all new stakeholders. Must always endeavor to build a positive image of our projects and related companies. Facilitate tender process, proposals and signing of contracts. Conduct progress, project kick-off, technical review, demo, project debrief and/or one-on-one meetings as required. Manage project budgets i.e. reviewing, evaluating and approval of quotes from contractors and suppliers on comparison with allocated budgets. Review/monitor project costs by reviewing actual cost on the project. This includes all the material purchases and labour hours spent on each project comparing it to the project budget. Develop a Quality Management Plan and make sure that measures are put in place to guarantee the delivery of high-quality project outcomes. Team Leadership: Lead, manage, and motivate a hybrid remote team across multiple geographic locations, communicating project progress, and ensuring all team members take accountability for delivery. Provide coaching, advice, and support performance management with line managers where necessary. Ensure a culture of continuous improvement on the project, support process improvement initiatives, and identify new process improvements. Is an active member of the PM community, contributing to team sessions and central improvement initiatives, and sharing best practices and lessons learned. Foster a collaborative and positive team environment, encouraging open communication and knowledge sharing among team members.