Leading Financial Institution based in Johannesburg are seeking a Senior Project Manager to work with business to define its requirements in order to meet its strategic objectives, including the development or assistance in the development business cases for the related projects.
Your skills and experience are required to define, scope and plan the project and agree structure and deliverables according to Group methodology.
Obtain sign-off for the business case from the Project Sponsor and Steering Committee.
Prepare and agree detailed project/sub project responsibilities with the Project Sponsor and or Project Owner.
Ensure all such investment is well funded and that the senior management are aware of their responsibilities in achieving the successful delivery of the associated projects
Agree resource requirements for the Project with the Project Sponsor and or Project Owner and secure them from available project resources or by outsourcing contractors.
Prepare a quality plan for each project that outlines the overall approach to quality, identify the standards to be employed and/or developed in the preparation of all products and plans for the process of quality assurance, review and control.
Actively participate in all phases and activities of the project and provide specialist guidance to the project team, particularly in project definition, requirements analysis, business and technical design and change control activities.

Key areas of focus will include:
Manage all elements of project execution namely timelines, actions, status reporting, status meetings, deliverables, risks and issues, expenditures, forecast of costs, cash flow, timescales and resource requirements
Manage the activities of the project-team members, as well as line role-players and subject-matter experts assigned to the project
Co-ordinate the work of the project team by allocating tasks, monitoring progress, ensuring awareness of responsibilities and securing commitment to successful project delivery.
Comply with the appropriate structures established and maintained by the Programme Manager, to ensure the delivery of projects.
Write presentations and reports for various stakeholders
Manage and run the routine project meetings
Develop financial Business Cases to secure the project funding
Identify and manage all programme/project issues and risks
Prepare and maintain detailed and accurate project and resource plans, with current estimates for activity completion.
Monitor and control the use of resources and
Provide regular and accurate progress reports and updated plans
Manage the process of procuring the external supply of resource and services, and lead the negotiation of major contracts with external suppliers.
Ensure that all service contracts include a clear specification of the supplier’s responsibilities regarding scope and quality of the deliverables, as well as costs and timescales.
Ensure that staff, where appropriate, are adequately trained and prepared for implementation of the solution,
Guide, mentor and lead the business analysis and design activities, and provide conceptual thought leadership to develop the project team and ensure success of project delivery. Improve the project team members business analysis and design skills through ongoing mentoring and coaching.
Manage and lead project team, provide assistance to less experienced staff by giving guidance and supporting on the job training, as appropriate.

Skills and experience required
• B Degree coupled with appropriate professional accreditation in Programme and or Project Management e.g.
Prince2, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), PMP - PMBOK certification)
• An appropriate university degree, with preference for a B Sc., B Sc (Eng), B Comp Sc
• A post-graduate degree such as an MBA would be advantageous
• Minimum 2 - 5 years Banking /Financial Institution working experience
• Ideally: 2-3 years direct experience in managing successful business change projects
• Solid knowledge of project management methodologies.
• Project Management experience gained in a complex Financial Service environment
• Solid experience in business analysis & design (especially process and organisational
analysis & design)
• Proven Project Management and Change Management skills and expertise
• Experience of employing change management best Practices and disciplines.
• Experience of managing activity across the whole of a project lifecycle, using current technology, structured methods and a quality process (eg., PMP method, Prince2, etc)
• Exposure to governance, control and risk management
• Proven ability to effectively work across teams at all levels
• Ability to negotiate/influence at senior level
• Proven ability to manage direct reports: leadership, motivation, coaching and people-development.
• Good financial Business Case Skills.
• Proven business analysis and redesign skills - ability to mentor and quality assure the deliverables of the project team.