Senior Project Manager

3 days ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time R1 200 000 - R2 400 000 per year


Duties and responsibilities:

  • Manage scope of work, budget, timeframes and quality of deliverables
  • Take necessary measures to manage potential risks
  • Consider processes, business, technology and people in order to implement changes
  • Communicate with stakeholders frequently to keep them informed and up-to-date
  • Facilitate process to allocate and secure resources to projects
  • Verify times and value captured by project team against the project
  • Complete project dashboard accurately and timeously
  • Coordinate day to day tasks and elimination of obstacles
  • Clarify responsibilities in the team
  • Enable a high performing environment
  • Ensure adherence to PMO minimum standards
  • Produce agreed artefacts according to PMO minimum standards, including:
  • Sizing, Scoping, Costing, Baseline Project Plans, Risk Management, Quality Plan, Communication
  • Evaluate and assess the effectiveness of the minimum standards and suggest necessary changes to PMO if necessary
  • Follow the official procurement process to engage with any software, professional or managed services vendors
  • Adhere to RMB policies surrounding contractors
  • Ensure correct invoicing processes are followed
  • Ensure contractor on-boarding process is followed correctly
  • Partake in software contract negotiation when need be
  • Be familiar with and execute all legal processes
  • Provide feedback to vendors on contractor performance
  • Build and maintain effective relationships with all key stakeholders to facilitate organizational effectiveness
  • Identify areas of concern in terms of reporting and use influence to debate and agree the best way forward
  • Act speedily to resolve problems, queries and complaints
  • Use influence and negotiation to achieve win-win outcomes
  • Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations and ensure clients needs are met
  • Proactively communicate and share information and encourage discussion and debate (share successes, highlight challenges and identify and manage risks)
  • Read the cultural environment and adapt communication style to meet the needs of different audiences
  • Anticipate and manage conflict, demonstrating an ability to resolve differences, particularly where these may be stalling the implementation of agreed plans

Qualifications and experience: 

  • 10 years + Project Management experience
  • 5 years investment banking experience in implementing Business Technology solutions
  • Knowledge of investment banking products
  • Fully comfortable with Agile delivery methodology and ceremonies (Scrum or SAFe)
  • Ability to manage a number of dependencies outside their project
  • Strong background/experience in Market Risk, CVA, credit risk, operational risk
  • Experience in large-scale regulatory projects within Market, credit and operational risk (FRTB, SCR)

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