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SATIC: Financial Services Transformation Manager

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Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
Type
Full-time
Department
Finance
Seniority
Manager
Closing date
Today
Source
Workday

Description

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery.

In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

  • Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
  • Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
  • Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
  • Effectively mentor others.
  • Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
  • Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
  • Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

Qualifications / Certifications Required 

  • Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting or a related discipline. 

  • PRINCE2 Practitioner / Project Management Professional (PMP)  /Agile Project Management, Certified Scrum or equivalent delivery qualification desirable. 

  • Financial services, business analysis or change management certification desirable. 
     

Experience Required 

  • Experience in banking, insurance or financial services environments, ideally combined with a management consulting or large-scale transformation background 

  • Business analysis experience on digitally enabled programmes 

  • Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to lead teams and deliver results.  

  • Experience leading workstreams or projects within transformation programmes, including planning, coordination, quality assurance and delivery oversight. 

  • Proven ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders, including Directors, Programme Sponsors and Operational Leaders. 

 

Responsibilities of Role 

  • Lead business analysis activities across banking, insurance and financial services transformation programmes. 

  • Support SAP-enabled and digitally enabled transformation initiatives within financial services organisations. 

  • Define, document and validate business requirements, processes and solution needs for transformation programmes. 

  • Apply project management and change management methodologies to support successful programme delivery. 

  • Collaboratively work with diverse teams and stakeholders to deliver complex problems with a key focus on benefits realisation and sustained value creation.  

  • Anticipate stakeholder needs, developing and discussing potential solutions pre-emptively. 

  • Lead transformation workstreams and provide coaching, guidance and oversight to junior team members. 

  • Build and maintain trusted stakeholder relationships, facilitating senior-level workshops and supporting strategic decision-making throughout programme delivery. 

 

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

September 4, 2026

Skills

SAPAgileScrumProject ManagementChange ManagementPMP