- Location
- City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, GP
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Finance
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Vincere
Description
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Company industry: |
Financial Services |
Available: |
Waterfall, Johannesburg |
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Career level: |
Senior |
Employment status: |
Permanent |
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Qualification: |
University Degree |
Years of experience: |
5 years + |
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Job description:
An opportunity exists for a Project Manager to work within a growing financial services organisation. The role requires an individual with IT project management experience particularly on software development projects using the agile methodology. The individual will assist in embedding agile practices and establishing the project management office competency within the organisation.
Responsibilities:
Overall Project Management responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to investigate the feasibility of projects that support the achievement of business objectives
- Define project scope in collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that project deliverables and expectations are clearly articulated and aligned to business objectives
- Develop project plans which identify and sequence the activities and timelines needed to successfully complete the project
- Coordinate the implementation of project systems and processes in line with the required time, cost and quality standards
- Identify and assign resources and stakeholders required for the execution of the project
- Determine the project objectives and measures of success which will be used to evaluate project effectiveness
- Track and drive the implementation and delivery of the project plan in line with the scope, cost and time parameters of the project
- Identify risks and collaborate with stakeholders to manage the mitigation of risks
- Create channels that monitor project progress and deliver reports that accurately reflect the progress of the project
- Manage the project close out and the assessment of project effectiveness to make recommendations to improve project impact
- Manage project budgets
- Mentor graduate and junior project managers within the project management team
- Manage project teams to ensure collaboration to achieve optimal cross process integration
- Collaborate with project management team to continuously improve project delivery framework
Agile Specific responsibilities:
- Runs daily, weekly and monthly agile rituals efficiently and strictly where applicable within projects
- Tracks work progress to identify blockages and developer divergence from allocated tasks
- Manage Business, Operational Staff and Product owners during SDLC process.
- Monitors channels for submission of development work requests
- Implements structure changes and strategy that are generated by agile retrospectives
- High velocity communicator - making sure that all information regarding changes in scope, delays & other detrimental events are communicated to those involved with the piece of work as soon as they arise
- Manage stories that do not contain the right level of detail from entering the Dev Structure
Minimum requirements:
- IT Qualification equivalent to a BTech or BCom
- Experience in the Financial Services Industry
- Proven experience as a Project Manager, preferably for at least 5 years, including being responsible for implementation of projects, facilitating projects and related workshops and effectively communicating with all project stakeholders.
- Proven experience facilitating a project across multiple divisions within an organisation.
- Agile/Scrum/Kanban experience
- Extensive understanding of IT software products / development
- SDLC and Implementation experience
- Experience in testing and QA environments
Skills / Competencies:
- PMBOK or Prince2 experience advantageous
- Must be competent in workshop facilitation techniques
- Execution
- Decision Making
- Communication
- Strategic
- Critical Thinking
- Business acumen
- Collaboration
- Initiating Action
Interested candidates must forward their CV with the vacancy title and location in the subject line to https://www.psg.co.za OR browse vacancies https://bit.ly/3bD2iAk by no later than . By submitting your application, you are giving PSG Financial Services implicit consent to the storage and processing of your personal information. If you are not contacted within 2 weeks of your application, please accept that your application was not successful.
