Job Description

Empowering Africas tomorrow, togetherxe2x80xa6one story at a time.With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary Deliver projects successfully within approved budget, timelines and meeting quality.
Ensure alignment of projects and project outcomes to the business, IT strategies and objectives.
Achieve desired outcomes through best practices in project management and to manage and grow
relationship with business and solution providers.
Manage the business change management enablement life-cycle. (NB. this responsibility will be shared with
the Organizational Change Manager in larger projects with broader impact).

• The Project Manager is accountable for Managing relationships with the project stakeholders and customers
• Creating and maintaining a consistent, coherent project plan that can be used to guide project execution and project control
• Planning, defining the scope of the project and controlling changes Formalising acceptance of the scope by stakeholders
• Planning, defining the schedule of the project and controlling changes
• Planning resources, estimating cost, allocating project budget and controlling changes to the budget 2 Maintain quality planning, quality assurance and quality control for the project Identifying, documenting and assigning project roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships
• Ensuring timely and appropriate generation and dissemination of project information Identifying , analysing and managing project risks Acquire & Implement
• Effectively conduct research into and make use of appropriate existing intellectual property as relevant to assigned project tasks Deliver & Support Deliver projects in keeping with cost, quality, schedule and agreed criteria.
• Identify, assess and manage project risks, which could result in time or cost overruns or failure to deliver products which are fit for purpose. Optimise total utilisation for all project resources. Ensure the participation and commitment of project stakeholders to project activities / reviews as required.
• Ensure timely dissemination of appropriate project information to stakeholders. Control changes to project scope, schedule and budget. Collect and disseminate performance information - status reporting, progress measurement and forecasting.
• Manage responses to risks and changes to risks over the course of the project. Generate, gather and disseminate information to formalize project completion.
• Ensure that projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are captured and published.
• Surface and escalate issues which may become impediments to delivery of projects on time, on-budget, and in keeping with business and technical guidance documents.
• Work effectively with Solution Delivery Manager to build a PM and technical team which delivers project on time, on-budget, and in keeping with business and technical guidance documents.
• Complete and file all required reports - especially those required by the PMO. Monitor & Evaluate Monitor costs, timescales and resources used, and take appropriate action where these deviate from agreed tolerances. Evaluate overall project performance on a regular basis to ensure that the project will satisfy relevant quality requirements.
• Monitor specific project results to ensure compliance with relevant quality standards and identify ways to eliminate unsatisfactory performance. Participate in post-implementation reviews of projects; document and institutionalise lessons learnt for continuous improvement.
• Provide feedback on performance of all team members. Plan & Organise Define, communicate and gain agreement on the project scope. Estimate costs, schedule and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the project to an agreed scope.
• Assist the Business Analyst, as necessary, in the development of a Business Case for the project.
• Work with the Solution Architect, System Analyst, and Solution Delivery Manager to ensure that the project adheres to enterprise Architectural standards. Divide the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components.
• Identify the specific activities that must be performed to produce the project deliverables. Identify and document dependencies between activities. Analyse activity sequences, activity durations and resource requirements to prepare the project schedule.
• Allocate the overall cost to individual work items.
• Prepare a consistent and coherent project plan document. 3 Identify which quality standards are relevant to the project and determine how to satisfy them. Identify, document and assign project roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships of both internal and external resources.
• Determine the information and communication requirements of the stakeholders.
• Identify and document the risks that are likely to affect the project.
• Evaluate risks and risk interactions to assess the range of possible project outcomes.
• Identify procurement requirements. Build and manage project charters, schedules, quality plans, budgets, and communication and risk management plans for projects.
• Clearly specify the needs of individuals and of the team overall to meet the needs of the project.

Education and Experience Required

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems or related field, compulsory.
• Recognised project management qualification (PMP/ PRINCE2), compulsory.
• Minimum 5 years Project Management experience.
• Minimum 3 years Financial Services Industry experience.
• Minimum 5 years IT/ IT Consulting experience.
• Minimum 3 years Consulting/ Change Management experience, advantageous.
• Business Case Management experience, compulsory.
• Experience in Benefits Management.
• Experience in Change Management.
• Experience in Project Management.
• Experience in Stakeholder Management.
• Experience and Knowledge of Banking and Financial Services business.

EducationBachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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