Project Manager - Centurion at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Limited

Role Purpose    

• This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to become a core part of the Momentum Institutional Investments Change team.  The successful candidate needs to be comfortable to operate in a relatively unstructured environment and create the appropriate degree of process and formality with the work that they do.  They must be willing to get involved in the detail and “get their hands dirty”.  They will be responsible for project management including a level of business and data analysis relating to internally and externally focused projects and strategic initiatives.

Requirements    

• A relevant degree.
• At least 5 years’ financial/business management experience with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in the investments industry with relevant business analysis and/or project management.
• Formal project management and business analysis certification or qualifications.
• Strong Microsoft office suite skills – Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Manage end to end project responsibilities, including post project implementation evaluations.
• Elicit requirements from business process owners, translate the requirements into business specifications, and sign off the requirements with applicable stakeholders.
• Design business solutions and processes that integrate different departments within Momentum Investments in order to create efficiencies.
• Understand the integrated business processes and dependencies and document the user journeys.
• Facilitate discussions with business process owners about project deliverables and scope, develop full scale project plans, track project deliverables and create appropriate reporting outputs.
• Manage the relationship with different stakeholders and ensure that misunderstandings, scope additions, or conflicts are effectively managed.
• Develop, execute, and document test plans in order to verify the quality of deliverable(s).
• Implement deliverables into a business line with minimum disruption and/or intervention of day-to-day business activities.
• Perform quality control, review, analyse, and evaluate how project performance can be enhanced.
• Generate and create reports; research and analyse data and report trends to management/ business partners.
• Adhere to established governance structures and control requirements for projects and programmes.
• Interact with project sponsor and senior management and streamline communication.
• Project management of issue and risk identification and either mitigation or resolution thereof
• Works independently setting own priorities and objectives with supervisory consultation.
• Regularly makes recommendations to and influences department policies and procedures.
• Actively contributes to the results of a team and works towards achieving team goals and objectives.
• Prepare and present project status reporting, dashboards and Steerco updates.

Competencies    

• Manage end to end project responsibilities, including post project implementation evaluations.
• Elicit requirements from business process owners, translate the requirements into business specifications, and sign off the requirements with applicable stakeholders.
• Design business solutions and processes that integrate different departments within Momentum Investments in order to create efficiencies.
• Understand the integrated business processes and dependencies and document the user journeys.
• Facilitate discussions with business process owners about project deliverables and scope, develop full scale project plans, track project deliverables and create appropriate reporting outputs.
• Manage the relationship with different stakeholders and ensure that misunderstandings, scope additions, or conflicts are effectively managed.
• Develop, execute, and document test plans in order to verify the quality of deliverable(s)
• Implement deliverables into a business line with minimum disruption and/or intervention of day-to-day business activities.
• Perform quality control, review, analyse, and evaluate how project performance can be enhanced.
• Generate and create reports; research and analyse data and report trends to management/ business partners.
• Adhere to established governance structures and control requirements for projects and programmes.
• Interact with project sponsor and senior management and streamline communication.
• Project management of issue and risk identification and either mitigation or resolution thereof
• Works independently setting own priorities and objectives with supervisory consultation.
• Regularly makes recommendations to and influences department policies and procedures.
• Actively contributes to the results of a team and works towards achieving team goals and objectives.
• Prepare and present project status reporting, dashboards and Steerco updates.