Project Manager: Prince2 or CAPM + MS Projects: Digital Payment Project: FTC

Project Manager: CAPM / Prince2 + MS Project: Digital Payment Project: FTC

To apply project management skills, tools, and techniques to successfully deliver projects within approved parameters in terms of scope, cost, and quality

Support the process of initiating projects and perform project planning:

• Ensure that valid and approved business cases are obtained before the commencement of new project work. Review the authorization of the project dimensions (scope, cost) prior to commencing project activities.
• Participate in constituting the project board and identifying the correct project stakeholders. Engage with all the key stakeholders to ensure that they will be involved in the project at the correct level.
• Identify and manage project risks and issues, throughout the project life cycle. Raise all key risks and issues at a project board level.
• Build and manage project plans and schedules. Project plans should cover the various management plans covering scope, time, cost and quality management plans.
• Conduct estimations for project activities as it relates to their duration and resources required to perform the work.
• Conduct research into and make use of the appropriate existing intellectual property as relevant to the assigned project tasks. Ensure that existing information, processes, and tools are maximized before recommending new approaches.
• Build relationships with key project participants include business owners, process owners and technology colleagues.

Drive the execution of project activities:

• Track and manage requirements during the project execution and incorporate changes into the requirements through the established change management process.
• Work with Business Analysts assigned to the project to ensure that detailed requirements are adequately documented, agreed, and formally approved.
• Provide leadership to the project team ensuring that team members are motivated to deliver.
• Support the execution of all project activities and resolve or mitigate risks or issues that could impact the committed delivery of the project.
• Ensure that unresolved risks and issues are escalated to the project board with an indication of the impact to the project. Include proposed solutions to respond to the risks or issues.
• Ensure that allocated resources are productive and focus their efforts on the project deliverables.
• Ensure the timeline completion and submission of timesheets and leave applications, for contracted resources.
• Review the project financials on an ongoing basis.
• Monitor project progress against the defined schedule and cost using project metrics used in the bank.
• Control project scope changes through a formal process and ensure approval of scope changes by the correct level of approver. Material changes (items that could impact timelines or cost) require approval from the project board.
• Adhere to project governance through the project life cycle. Project governance standards for technology projects are defined by the IT PMO.
• Ensure that project reporting cycles are agreed with the project board and implemented.

Prepare documents for project closure:

• Contribute to building the bank's intellectual property by logging all good quality documents in the appropriate knowledge databases.
• Ensure accurate record keeping, document and content management of all project and business specification documents, research results, investigations, and correspondence.
• Support business during the implementation of their changes for the duration of a pilot or warranty period.
• Conduct formal handover of the project items into business as usual including training material, project documentation, system documentation and process documents.
• Complete and submit documents required to formally close projects and capture lessons learnt where the business area has the facility to do so

Technical Stack: Managerial Budgeting l Risk Management l Project Definition l Project Management l Project Planning l Project Reporting l Stakeholder Management l

Minimum requirements:

• Degree: Commerce or Information Technology
• Certified Associate Project Manager or Prince2 Foundation
• MS Project Management
• 4 years: Experience in managing business or technology projects
• 4 years: Experience managing technology or software development projects would be advantageous

Recruitment Note: Communication will only be with shortlisted candidates: jino.

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