Cape Town: Senior Project Manager – (CONTRACT) posted by PM Connection

Job Description Summary

• Our client is is seeking an experienced, dynamic, energetic and disciplined Senior Project Manager to join their team. The division is one of the largest customer-facing business segments in the company. Their vision is to be our customers’ most trusted financial partner, passionate about helping them achieve their lifetime goals.
• Their mission is to enable positive futures for our customers, by bridging the gap between their resources and their financial services needs.
• Their primary goal is to facilitate access to financial solutions for their customers and to keep pace with their changing needs.
• Their target market is the low and emerging-middle income segment.
• This role is responsible for managing projects within the constraints of scope, quality, time and cost.
• This role is accountable for achieving results through various teams, integrating activities to manage the overall project delivery and deployment processes.

Job Description

• This role will report to the Programme and Project manager competency lead within BCE.
• This role will join an existing Programme and will form part of the team supporting a Fraud Risk initiative under the guidance of the Senior Project Manager.
• Project Management: Lead and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of projects within the MFC Risk & Compliance business area, ensuring timely delivery and specified quality outcomes.
• Benefits Management: Ensure that the Business Case ROI remains relevant & updated. Forecast and track benefit(s), ensuring that epic delivery is linked to the company OKRs.
• Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams, providing guidance, motivation, and support to ensure collaboration and achievement of epics. Ensure that the team is aligned and focused on outcomes.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Establish and maintain effective relationships and communication with stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are understood, managed and addressed.
• Budget Management: Manage project budgets, perform accurate forecasting, track expenses, and ensure that the allocated budget is utilised effectively and efficiently.
• Risk & Issue Management: Identify potential risks & issues and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful project delivery.
• Quality Assurance: Implement and monitor quality control measures to guarantee the delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• Reporting and Documentation: Prepare high-quality reports, documentation, and presentations as required for relevant meetings, forums and stakeholders.
• Dependency Management: Identifies dependencies and inter-dependencies between projects and actively manages these.
• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate project effectiveness, identify areas for improvement, and implement enhancements to optimise outcomes.
• Capacity management: Ensure adequate capacity for the required Epic delivery.
• Vendor Management: May be required to manage and work with 3rd party vendors together with their respective service delivery and standards.
• Operational & Business readiness: Ensures that all organisational elements of the programme are addressed, integrated and handed over to the relevant Business Owner Education and experience requirements.
• Relevant Project Management certification.
• Relevant Agile certification.
• 3+ years experience in people leadership of a medium to large team
• 3+ years experience in Project Management.
• 3+ years working experience in an Agile or SAFe environment.

Key skill requirements

• Essential: Familiarity with both traditional and agile project management tools and frameworks.
• Previous experience working on Risk and Compliance projects advantageous.
• Previous experience working on projects within the company advantageous.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent facilitation and planning skills.
• Comfortable in working and communicating with Senior and C-suite leadership.
• Ability to comprehend information in verbal and written communication.
• Ability to operate in and navigate a highly pressured and ambiguous environment.
• Ability to build and maintain a healthy, collaborative and productive team culture.
• Exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building skills to foster collaboration across teams.
• Team management abilities, with the capacity to inspire and motivate teams toward common goals.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and thrive in a dynamic environment.

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