- Cape Town Southern Suburbs
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: IT Technology Technical
- Reference: PM006
Vacancy Details
Employer: Progressive Edge
Solutions Project Manager (Financial Services)
Permanent
Newlands, Cape Town
Purpose of the job
We are looking for a dedicated Project Manager responsible for the consistent, trustworthy delivery of all business and system changes and enhancements whilst maintaining strong relationships with clients and all delivery teams. They will be responsible for creating and embedding the necessary structure for effective project delivery, removing blockers, and ensuring delivery within agreed timeframes.
The main tasks of the project manager include managing projects, addressing reliability issues, tracking project metrics, managing budgets and stakeholder liaison and ultimate responsibility for meeting project delivery dates with the level of quality required.
To be a successful Project Manager in our environment, you should demonstrate strong leadership, ownership and teamworking skills. You should demonstrate excellent communication skills, have a deep curiosity and eventual competence around the system SDLC.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Project Management
- Implementation and maintenance of effective delivery frameworks internally and with our outsourced IT service partner
- Managing the delivery through the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) including client implementation of the change
- Project and BAU delivery tracking
- Professional project updates to clients
- Managing client requests through the backlog and delivery pipeline
- Ownership of the delivery of agreed priorities for the year
- Responsible for delivery relationship with our outsourced IT service partners
- Ensuring that systems, procedures, and methodologies are in place to support outstanding project delivery
- Developing a deep understanding of projects to gain insights into the scope of delivery
- Taking accountability for project delivery performance, meeting internal and external client expectations, and driving future demand
- Analyzing third-party as well as internal processes, and creating strategies for project delivery optimization
Performance & Quality Management
- Recommending methods of improvement and seeing that actions are implemented on time for project delivery upgrades
- Providing accurate and regular reports to management on performance of project delivery
- Building strong relationships with teams and stakeholders to enable effective dialogue exchange between departments
Candidate Requirements
Ideal experience:
- 5+ years BA / Scrum Master / Project Management / Delivery experience
- Demonstrable experience having come up with solutions themselves
- Ability to work across various projects simultaneously
- Knowledge of financial systems such as Flexcube, Bizagi or similar
- Knowledge of Retail Investment domain
- Excellent organisational skills
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About Progressive Edge
Progressive Edge Consulting
Is a Boutique firm specializing in Tech & Data related recruitment and headhunting services across the Cape Town Area.
We actively seek out the most innovative and progressive companies & projects within the Cape Town area an connect them with leading IT and technical talent from around the country.
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