Project Manager - Johannesburg at Boardroom Appointments

Minimum requirements:

• 10 years + Project Management experience
• 5 years+ Portfolio/Programme Management experience
• At least 8 years experience in Financial Markets (Investment Banking) preferably in Trading, Markets environment, and preferably with Risk understanding and experience, an understanding of Basel reform and local market regulations a bonus.
• Fully comfortable with Agile delivery methodology and ceremonies (Scrum or SAFe)
• Ability to manage a number of dependencies outside their project.
• Must have proven experience in some or many roles relating to Business analysis, consulting, operating model analysis, solutions architecture, project, and portfolio management.
• (Less important that this person has the required theoretical PM certifications, and more important that they have the experience working in this environment with these sorts of large scale, multi touch point projects, and are not scared to get their hands dirty and understand the detail and do some analysis as solution design as well as Project management)
• Must have an understanding of technology projects and project lifecycle, without having to be specifically technical themselves.
• (Quant background and understating of technical risk and added bonus)

Responsibilities:

• Manage scope of work, budget, timeframes, and quality of deliverables
• Take necessary measures to manage potential risks.
• Consider processes, business, technology, and people in order to implement changes.
• Communicate with stakeholders frequently to keep them informed and up to date.
• Facilitate process to allocate and secure resources to projects.
• Verify times and value captured by project team against the project.
• Complete project dashboard accurately and timeously
• Coordinate day to day tasks and elimination of obstacles.
• Clarify responsibilities in the team.
• Enable a high performing environment.
• Ensure adherence to PMO minimum standards.
• Adhere and contribute to PMO standards.
• Produce agreed artefacts according to PMO minimum standards, including:
• Sizing, Scoping, Costing, Baseline Project Plans, Risk Management, Quality Plan, Communication
• Evaluate and assess the effectiveness of the minimum standards and suggest necessary changes to PMO if necessary.
• Vendor and procurement Management
• Follow the official procurement process to engage with any software, professional or managed services vendors.
• Adhere to RMB policies surrounding contractors.
• Ensure correct invoicing processes are followed.
• Ensure contractor on-boarding process is followed correctly.
• Partake in software contract negotiation when need be.
• Be familiar with and execute all legal processes.
• Provide feedback to vendors on contractor performance.
• Internal and external stakeholder relationship management
• Build and maintain effective relationships with all key stakeholders to facilitate organizational effectiveness.
• Identify areas of concern in terms of reporting and use influence to debate and agree the best way forward.
• Act speedily to resolve problems, queries and complaints.
• Use influence and negotiation to achieve win-win outcomes.
• Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations and ensure clients needs are met.
• Proactively communicate and share information and encourage discussion and debate (share successes, highlight challenges and identify and manage risks)
• Read the cultural environment and adapt communication style to meet the needs of different audiences.
• Anticipate and manage conflict, demonstrating an ability to resolve differences, particularly where these may be stalling the implementation of agreed plans