Johannesburg North: Project Controller posted by Network Finance

The successful candidate will play a key role in strengthening project governance, financial control, performance tracking, risk management, and value realisation, ensuring full alignment with the Group’s Digital and Data Strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project Governance & Control:
  • Establish and maintain project control frameworks, standards, and templates across data and digital initiatives
  • Monitor compliance with governance processes, including scope, budget, schedule, and quality baselines
  • Facilitate project reviews, stage gates, and portfolio reporting to sponsors and stakeholders
  • Implement professional secondment and outsourcing models to optimise resourcing across the group
• Financial & Performance Management:
  • Support the budgeting, forecasting, and financial tracking of all digital and data projects
  • Track expenditure against approved budgets and flag variances or potential overruns
  • Prepare consolidated financial and performance dashboards for executive review
• Portfolio Management & Reporting:
  • Maintain an integrated portfolio register across all group digital and data initiatives
  • Provide insights on project health, interdependencies, and resource allocation
  • Consolidate monthly and quarterly portfolio reports to support executive decision-making
• Risk & Issue Management:
  • Identify, track, and manage project risks, issues, and interdependencies
  • Support mitigation and contingency planning and escalate critical risks where required
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Act as a key liaison between project managers, finance, IT, and business stakeholders
  • Support alignment between group and subsidiary project control processes
  • Prepare presentations and briefing materials for executive and Board-level forums
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Drive improvements in project control practices, reporting automation, and portfolio visibility
  • Promote best practices in project governance and portfolio management

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field
• 5–8 years’ experience in project control, portfolio management, or PMO within a technology, digital, or data environment
• Project / programme management certification (e.g. PMP, PgMP, PfMP, PRINCE2, and PMO Practitioner) preferred

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Strong understanding of digital project management and DevSecOps delivery principles
• Experience implementing project governance structures
• Sound financial management, project accounting, and programme management knowledge
• Stakeholder engagement and expectation management
• Proficiency in project management tools, cost control, scheduling, and resourcing
• Risk management, change management, and benefits realisation monitoring

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Specialist Recruitment Consultant