Senior Project Manager

Bravura Solutions; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company in Johannesburg seeks a Senior Project Manager to oversee large-scale projects for Sonata Wealth clients. The role requires extensive experience in IT project management, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to quality outcomes. You will manage project lifecycles, client relationships, and ensure successful delivery while mentoring team members. Join a dynamic team dedicated to innovation and excellence in financial technology solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience as a project manager in IT and financial services.
• Experience in large-scale software implementations and consultancy-based project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Manage full project lifecycle and client relationships.
• Deliver large projects to Sonata Wealth customers.
• Establish and manage effective multi workstream project operations.

Skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Customer Service

Analytical Skills

Communication

Education

Degree in Science, Engineering or Mathematics

Tools

PRINCE2

Agile

Job description

Bravura’s Commitment and Mission At Bravura Solutions, collaboration, diversity and excellence matter. We value your ideas, giving you room to be curious and innovate in an exciting, fast-paced, and flexible environment. We look for many different skills and abilities, as well as how you can add value to Bravura and our culture. As a Global FinTech market leader and ASX listed company, Bravura is a trusted partner to over 350 leading financial services clients, delivering wealth management technology and products. We invest significantly in our technology hubs and innovation labs, which inspire and drive our creative, future-focused mindset. We take pride in developing cutting-edge, digital first technology solutions that support our clients to achieve financial security and prosperity for their customers.

Position Purpose

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for delivering large projects to our Sonata Wealth customers across the global organisation. This will involve managing the full end to end project lifecycle including managing customer relationships to deliver successful shared outcomes, providing leadership to the Bravura project teams, providing control, risk management, reporting and maintaining plans and tracking deliverables.

As a senior member of the team, the candidate is expected to participate in the development of best practices and toolsets, developing external partnerships, pre-sales and mentoring.

Main Activities

• Client Programme : Ensure Bravura’s plan is achievable and fits in with the client’s overall programme plan
• Contractual Accountability : Awareness of Bravura’s contractual commitments and ensure that these are met
• Stakeholder Management : full responsibility for the relationship with senior members of change management teams within one or more of Bravura’s clients
• Project Delivery : establishing and managing effective multi workstream project operations to deliver quality outcomes
• Matrix Management : leading distributed team(s) of project employees operating on complex IT projects
• Contractual Accountability : ensuring that Bravura Solutions delivers against contracted commitments
• Project Definition : controlling the definition of project requirements and high-level solutions. Responsible for managing these into the development team and for user acceptance on delivery.
• Project Maintenance : maintenance of project plans and timely management of actual effort and remaining work
• Reporting : timely progress reporting to both clients and internal management.
• Resource Management : defining and managing necessary project resources. Controlling project schedules to ensure that necessary modules and programs are completed according to the project plan.
• Financial Management : Preparing project budgets, attaining necessary approvals in a timely manner and monitoring and tracking project financials and the realisation of defined project benefits.
• Budget Management : establishing, managing and reporting on project budget(s), analysing budget variances and recommending appropriate action.
• Vendor Management : developing and managing vendor contracts / agreements associated with projects under management
• Strong understanding and application of Project Management competencies including scope, cost, time, quality, HR, communications, risk, procurement, and integration
• Effective leadership, relationship, coordination, motivational, negotiation and dispute resolutions skills
• Strong customer service ethos, a commitment to quality and the will to constantly drive improvements
• Financial management / reporting and analysis skills
• A strong track record of technology delivery success
• Ability to build, develop and maintain relationships with client counterparts
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies (ideally PRINCE2 and / or Agile)
• Knowledge of industry standard requirements definition, development and testing practices and standards
• Experience working with off-shore development teams, either in house or external

Personal Characteristics

• Takes ownership
• Consultative and an effective influencer
• Ability to apply analytical skill and conceptual thinking to project related activities and work
• Ability to collaborate with clients
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation and facilitation skills
• Resilience including the ability to work effectively under time pressure
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Proactive approach to work
• Proven eagerness for continual personal development
• Capable of working on-site at client offices

Qualifications and Experience

• 10+ years' experience as a project manager working within an IT and financial services-based function
• Experience in owning the delivery of large-scale packaged software implementations
• Experienced in consultancy-based project delivery with a focus on client relationship management
• Domain knowledge of the wealth management or platform industry
• Experience of leading multiple projects across different locations
• Educated to degree level in a science, engineering or mathematical subject

Working at Bravura Our people are the heart of our business. We work hard to provide a rich employee experience and a robust framework for ongoing career development. So, what’s next? We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion so even if you don’t match every listed skill or tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you. Please note that interviews are primarily conducted virtually and if you require any reasonable adjustments or would like to note which pronouns you use, please let us know. All final applicants for this position will be asked to consent to a criminal record and background check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits.

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