Satic - Fs Tax Project Manager

Pwc Careers Africa; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC is seeking an experienced project manager to lead complex projects in a diverse environment. You will leverage your extensive project management skills to drive outcomes for clients in the Financial Services sector. Ideal candidates will have a proven track record and a strong ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience in consulting or project management roles.
• Industry recognized project management qualification preferred.
• Experience in Financial Services sector beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex, high value projects from start to finish.
• Build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Track project status, including risk and budget management.

Skills

Communication

Relationship Building

Project Management

Agile Methodologies

Waterfall Methodologies

Education

NQF Level 7 and above

Project Management Qualification (e.g., Prince2, MSP)

Job description

South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future.

We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society.

If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech and making a difference to real people’s lives.

Requirements:

• NQF Level 7 and above (ZA)
• At least 5-8 years experience within consulting, or an industry business analysis / operating model / strategy / fund, project, or programme management role.
• Ideally an industry recognised project or programme management qualification (e.g., Prince2 / MSP etc.).

Knowledge, skills and experience required:

• Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams – experience of working within the Financial Services sector would be beneficial.
• Proficiency in both waterfall and agile methodologies with a growth mindset embedding best practice through a culture of continuous improvement and coaching.
• Capable of switching between workstream detail and programme level and can join the dots across organisation, strategy, programme, and project levels.
• Excellent communication and relationships building skills.
• Evidenced ability to command respect and create a sense of vision and purpose amongst the project team.
• Experienced at presenting to Exec level stakeholders, with the ability to influence stakeholders to drive successful outcomes

Key attributes for this role

You will be a strong planner, influencer and have a proven track record in project management and

delivery. You will bring high energy, be able to operate in time-constrained environments, thrive on

building relationships and continually seek to improve the service offered to stakeholders. You will be culturally sensitive, able to work with clients and teams from diverse backgrounds and styles

You will be responsible for:

• Managing a range of complex, high value, projects and programmes from kick off through to project closure.
• Delivering through standard PM methodologies and processes (e.g. for planning, reporting, billing) and helping drive adoption throughout a team/programme.
• Building, developing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders of all grades including very senior stakeholders, both internally and with clients.
• Anticipating and recovering potential delivery issues before they occur through proactive management.
• Ensuring the effective use of resources within the programme/Line of Service, to deliver change efficiently and ensuring cost is minimised.
• Supporting projects to set up clear business / scope requirements and ensure delivery of these, communicating progress through the agreed reporting routes and managing changes through the agreed, fit for purpose governance processes.
• Communicating with delivery teams to drive alignment on processes and standards.
• Effectively managing key stakeholders to ensure they understand progress of subworkstreams and interdependent workstreams.
• Facilitating the effective flow of information through the governance structure.
• Creating and maintaining meaningful MI that provides insight to programme progress.
• Regular tracking of the project’s overall status including, risk tracking, budget tracking and financial management.
• Effectively and responsibly leveraging technology tools and working with delivery capability in other territories
• Driving the continuous improvement agenda for the project/team.

The PwC FS Tax practice

The PwC Financial Services (FS) Tax team is the leading provider of tax services to the Financial

Services sector in the UK. Our client bases comprises top tier and mid-sized FS institutions alongside fast growth fintechs, many of whom have significant global footprints. It is a national team of around 420 tax professionals based in offices around the UK in London, Leeds, Bristol and Edinburgh. The team offers a full range of tax services including tax compliance, corporate tax advisory, transfer pricing, international structuring, indirect tax advisory, tax reporting and strategy, stamp duty, HR tax and Tax Investigations.

For PwC, the FS marketplace spans the Banking and Capital Markets (BCM), Insurance (INS), Asset

Wealth Management (AWM) and Alternative Investment Funds (AIF) industry groups. There are also specialist teams supported by the industry groups and working across FS in Private Client (PC), Indirect Tax (ITX), Tax Reporting & Strategy (TRS) Transfer Pricing (TP), and Disputes.

The need for project management

The FS Tax teams are increasingly engaged on large, complex, multi disciplinary, multi-territory client projects. These projects require an experienced project manager to manage several workstreams, working to a large and varied internal and external stakeholder group. You will have the opportunity to support key projects with clients of varying complexities and size