Project Manager with Business Analyst Experience

3 months ago

Menlyn, South Africa H2R Africa Full time

One of our clients in the IT Service industry has a permanent vacancy available for a Project Manager with Business Analyst experience to join their team.

Project Manager multiskilled in Business Analysis

  • As the Project Managers primary task is to Manage the Project, the Risk, and the Issues to ensure the project runs smoothly on time and on budget.
  • As the Project Manager plans, organises, directs, controls and coordinates special programmes or projects within Direct Transact for new and existing clients.
  • As Business Analysts, the primary task is to analyse business Requirements, identify gaps, provide workable solutions and workarounds, and documenting and communicating those requirements and solutions in a fashion that satisfies both the client and Direct Transact.
  • The business analyst's needs to have sufficient business insight and experience to be able to clearly communicate solutions to stakeholders, facilitators and partners.
  • Must have the ability to improve business processes and systems.
  • Furthermore, the Business Analyst supports the communication and delivery of those requirements with the relevant internal and external stakeholders, throughout the entire project life cycle, resolving queries, changes, bugs and facilitate the Golive and Initial Support process.

Main Accountabilities:
Project Manager:

  • Taking ownership to Manage, Monitor and Control projects to achieve delivery of project objectives within time, cost, quality and scope constraints.
  • Create the project plan and project charter.
  • Develop project schedules. Manage timelines and target dates in relevant company Project Management tools.
  • Track progress and review project tasks to ensure project deadlines are met.
  • Identify, analyse, communicate and manage project risks, issues and dependencies.
  • Develop contingency plans to minimise or prevent any negative impact to the project.
  • Proactively communicate overall project status to management and stakeholders.
  • Implement project controls (e.g. standing meetings, reporting, project documentation, signoffs);
  • Implement change controls to track and report changes to the project.
  • Define & maintain all implementation processes, manage implementation lifecycle; coordinate documentation when needed.
  • Arrange and coordinate client training to align with clients goals.
  • Familiarising themselves with and adhering to the policies and procedures applicable to their area of responsibility.
  • Continuously improve project process where opportunities arise.
  • Coordinating creation of project proposals.

Business Analyst:

  • Assisting with business cases.
  • Eliciting, analysing, organizing and simplifying business requirements in a business requirement document.
  • Recommend solutions to achieve the business goals required.
  • Identify gaps between the requirement and the existing system.
  • Manage requirement traceability and provide a closure of scope delivery.
  • Write functional and/or technical specifications to be used by the developers and Quality Assurance Testers to develop and test the system.
  • Write Knowledge Builder documents (high level training manuals) to be used by the customer once functionality has been released, which will assist the customer in testing the system and understanding Enterprise processes.
  • From time to time the Business Analyst would be required to assist with customer presentations/demo for pre-sales.
  • From time to time the Business Analyst would be required to assist with RFI or RFP document gathering.
  • Interact with all stakeholders before, during and after project to assure that requirements are correctly understood and implemented.
  • Planning and monitoring queries from internal and external stakeholders.
  • As a Business Analyst, it could be expected, depending on the discretion of the company, that the Business Analyst would be required to carry out roles of a Project Manager (as defined within the Project Manager Job Role specification);
  • The Business Analyst will be involved to conduct kick off workshops with internal and external stakeholders as well as scoping workshops.

Skills and Experience:

  • At least 5 years experience in the same or similar position.
  • Banking Industry and or financial experience are essential.
  • High level of personal integrity and ethics.
  • Work Accountability and ownership mentality.
  • Proficient in English and Afrikaans.

Qualifications:

  • Industrial Engineering Qualification
  • 6 Sigma Certification
  • Matric or equivalent qualification recognised by the Department of Higher Education & Training.
  • National Diploma/Degree recognised certificate or degree in relevant field will be an advantage.

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