Project Manager

**Project Manager (mid level)**

**Permanent**

**Newlands, Cape Town**

A company in the asset management and investment field is looking for a new Project Manager to assist them realise their goal of becoming South Africa''s top investment administrator.

With a principle-centered approach, the organisation hopes to foster an entrepreneurial spirit.

Passion, team spirit, eagerness to give new ideas, willingness to go the additional mile, drive and resolve to succeed, adaptability, and accountability are all required to be successful here.

From the start, you''ll feel supported in this team-oriented environment. The people in the organisation care about the success of their co-workers, and, the company as a whole. They encourage fresh ideas and innovation, and believe that the individual successes of each employee is critical to the success of the company.

**Purpose of the job**

The teams need a dedicated Project Manager responsible for the consistent, trustworthy delivery of all business and system changes and enhancements whilst maintaining strong relationships with clients and all delivery teams. They will be responsible for creating and embedding the necessary structure for effective project delivery, removing blockers, and ensuring delivery within agreed timeframes.

The main tasks of the project manager include managing projects, addressing reliability issues, tracking project metrics, managing budgets and stakeholder liaison and ultimate responsibility for meeting project delivery dates with the level of quality required.

To be a successful Project Manager in our environment, you should demonstrate strong leadership, ownership and teamworking skills. You should demonstrate excellent communication skills, have a deep curiosity and eventual competence around the system SDLC.

**Main duties and responsibilities**

Project Management
- Implementation and maintenance of effective delivery frameworks internally and with our outsourced IT service partner
- Managing the delivery through the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including client implementation of the change
- Project and BAU delivery tracking
- Professional project updates to clients
- Managing client requests through the backlog and delivery pipeline
- Ownership of the delivery of agreed priorities for the year
- Responsible for delivery relationship with our outsourced IT service partners
- Ensuring that systems, procedures, and methodologies are in place to support outstanding project delivery
- Developing a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of delivery
- Taking accountability for project delivery performance, meeting internal and external client expectations, and driving future demand
- Analyzing third-party as well as internal processes, and creating strategies for project delivery optimization
- Performance & Quality Management
- Recommending methods of improvement and seeing that actions are implemented on time for project delivery upgrades
- Providing accurate and regular reports to management on performance of project delivery
- Building strong relationships with teams and stakeholders to enable effective dialogue exchange between departments

**REQUIREMENTS**

**Essential**:

- 5+ years BA / Scrum Master / Project Management / Delivery experience
- Understanding of financial markets and financial systems
- Knowledge of database query languages e.g. SQL
- Exceptional client-facing skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with teams and stakeholders
- Ability to source information from the users/clients
- Ability to work under pressure, time management, provide reasonable effort estimations and to be able to multi-task across multiple projects and communicate effectively.
- Unquestionable integrity and accountability
- Knowledgeable about SDLC process
- A great team player, able to interact easily with both business and technology stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills and strong attention to detail

**Preferred but not required**:

- Knowledge of Flexcube
- Knowledge of Retail Investment domain
- Knowledge of Transfer Agency
- Bizagi
- Digiata
- SQL experience beneficial
- Knowledge of front-end development technologies and tools e.g. HTML, CSS etc.