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PwC - Biggest provider of audit, accounting and tax services to the companies listed in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Also provides internal audit, forensic audit, corporate finance, corporate governance services, sustainable assurance services and others.
Job Description & Summary
A career in Capital Programs Excellence, within Operations Consulting, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients understand where they might have vulnerabilities and develop solutions to manage the risks involved. We prevent, respond to and remediate a wide range of business threats, risks and complex issues.
Our team helps organisations deliver on their large scale capital programs and portfolios by providing assurance, tax, consulting, deals and forensics services across the capital program lifecycle. As part of the team, you'll utilize technology solutions to help our clients analyse, design and implement business changes related to their large scale capital programs.
To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
- Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
- Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
- Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
- Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
- Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
- Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
- Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
- Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
- Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
Purpose of job:
The Programme Manager will be managing large transformation programmes and projects as well as assist with growing the Project Management capability within PwC.
This role requires the individual to have the knowledge and skills that are both broad and deep. The individual must be an all-rounder with experience in project and programme management across various industries. The individual must have experience on multiple types of programmes, including technical, business and specifically large transformation programmes. The individual needs an ability to share and communicate status, risks, and updates clearly, both orally and in writing and work as a bridge between project teams and the stakeholders.
Key Outputs
Programme delivery and management
- Manage large programme delivery successfully
- Manage large sized project teams
- Manage finances associated with project delivery and deliver on yearly revenue targets
- Actively participate and manage all aspects of project delivery
- Facilitate and lead team problem solving and client issue resolution efforts
- Lead multi-disciplinary delivery teams and take full ownership of the quality of the project delivery
- Liaise with staff at all levels of a client organisation
- Manage finances associated with project delivery
- Develop industry knowledge and thought leadership for programme & transformation management
- Understand and interpret complex business challenges
- Conceive innovative solution for clients
- Think independently and creatively when formulating solutions
- Be recognised as an expert in programme management
- Manage all aspects of the programme, including risk, decisions, issues, quality, stakeholder management, scope, planning, reporting
- Must be able to deliver a programme independent of the mythology followed (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid)
Relationships
- Be able to build and sustain professional relationships both within PwC and externally
- Actively collaborate with colleagues in solving unique business and challenges
- Build long term relationships with clients that can be translated into revenue opportunities
- Build effective relationships with team members that you lead
- Fulfil coaching and mentorship roles to junior staff
Experience
Qualifications
- Relevant B degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or Engineering
- An advanced business degree is an advantage (e.g. MBA, Post Graduate Diploma in Management)
Accreditation
Competencies / Attributes
Delivery
- Demonstrate competence in managing projects
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize and coordinate tasks to meet multiple deadlines and conflicting client and company constraints
- Must be a self-starter, motivated individual who works well under pressure
- Manage and plan own and others work
- Is able to motivate a team for excellent delivery
- Open-minded, practical and able to solve complex problems
- Attention to detail and committed to quality
- Ability to perform quality reviews on others work and provide constructive feedback when required
General
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Sound judgment
- Innovative
- Resilient
- Cope well under tight deadlines and work well under stress
- Strategic and big picture thinking
Relationships
- Is a team player and contributes to team success
- Is able to build effective customer relationships
Learning and growth
- Is curious – learning, sharing and innovating
- Willingness to continually learn and develop skills across a multitude of core competencies
- Approaches problem solving in a logical and structured manner with due consideration given to alternative solutions which may require the acquisition of new knowledge
- Able to handle complex problems and apply appropriate judgement in evaluating solution inputs
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