Senior Project Manager

1 week ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Backbase Full time R1 500 000 - R2 500 000 per year

The job in short

Backbase, Europe's leading and multi award winning Fintech, continues its huge international growth winning more and more projects in South Africa with its Banking and Financial services clients. As part of this rapid scaling, Project Management experts are crucial to success.

Meet the job

Senior PM's at Backbase provide effective coordination and communication among all the project stakeholders. In addition, they manage the relationship with Financial Services customers/partners and support and advise clients on implementing their online applications using the Backbase Solution to its full potential.

Backbase is the fastest-growing front-runner in Engagement Banking software and is experiencing explosive growth in high margin revenue, customer acquisition and headcount. To illustrate - headcount has grown from around 1500 to 2500 people (1,000+ hired in the last 12 months), with offices worldwide and partnering with over 150+ global banks, transforming customer experience for millions of end customers. All of this has been achieved without taking on debt, which is unheard of in this sector. After becoming a profitable business, Backbase for the first time, took $128m of funding at a conservative $2.6bn valuation to supercharge its growth.

Those who are a strong match to the above requirements will be contacted immediately for an interview so please apply now and without delay as we are hiring rapidly and look for the very best.

How about you?

As a Senior PM, You will have multiple squads of engineers at your disposal. You will also produce and maintain project estimations, plans, statements of work, and change requests. Your project teams consist of hand-picked talent that will enable you to drive value to our customers, whether in the form of a state-of-the-art solution or high-quality assessment and consultancy, all leveraging your consulting and Agile experience. Your close team may include BA's, Solutions Architects and UX - all of which we continue to hire in Johannesburg.

  • You have at least eight years of Project Management experience in delivering digital projects;
  • You enjoy traditional project management and know how to apply critical path method (CPM);
  • You have unrivalled experience in managing "complicated" clients;
  • You have experience with senior level stakeholder management in an international environment;
  • You have experience in distributed and remote agile delivery;
  • You ace hands on team management and your people liked your collaborative leadership style;
  • You have full understanding of the web application / software development lifecycle, including UX Design;
  • You pack great presenting and negotiation skills;
  • You know your way around Jira, Google suite and PM tools;
  • You enjoy visiting customers onsite and don't shy away to travel frequently;
  • You have excellent oral and written communication skills in French, Arabic and English.

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