Senior Project Manager

Momentum; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services, offers a key role for an experienced Senior Project Manager within its Institutional Investments Project team. The position involves project management duties, business and data analysis, and facilitating inter-departmental collaborations to enhance operational efficiencies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in senior project management, preferably in Insurance or Financial Services.
• Formal qualification in Project Management required.

Responsibilities

• Manage end to end project responsibilities, including post project implementation.
• Design business solutions that integrate different departments.
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions regarding project deliverables.

Skills

Project Management

Business Analysis

Cross-department Collaboration

Data Management

Analytical Skills

Attention to Detail

Presentation Skills

Education

Relevant Degree or Diploma

Tools

Jira

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations. We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilising new platforms Momentum Group provides practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses.

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Role Purpose

This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic experienced individual to become a core part of the Momentum Institutional Investments Project team. The successful candidate needs to be comfortable to create the appropriate degree of process and formality with the work that they do. They must be willing to get involved in the detail and “get their hands dirty”. They will be responsible for project management including a level of business and data analysis relating to internally and externally focused projects and strategic initiatives.

Requirements

Experience and Qualifications

• A relevant degree or diploma or equivalent.
• At least 5 years Senior Project Management experience, preferably in the Insurance or Financial Services Industry.
• Business Analysis background advantage.
• Formal qualification/s in Project Management.
• Formal membership of PMI or similar professional organizations advantage.
• Understanding of various Technical Terminologies used in SDLC.
• Ability to work flexible hours.
• Strong Microsoft office suite skills – Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Working with Jira and other Project Management tools to enhance project details and visibility.
  
  

Duties & Responsibilities

Responsibilities And Work Outputs

• Manage end to end project responsibilities, including post project implementation
• Design business solutions and processes that integrate different departments within Momentum Investments in order to create efficiencies.
• Understand the integrated business processes and dependencies and document the user journeys.
• Facilitate discussions with business process owners about project deliverables and scope, develop full scale project plans, track project deliverables and create appropriate reporting outputs.
• Manage the relationship with different stakeholders and ensure that misunderstandings, scope additions, or conflicts are effectively managed.
• Develop, execute, and document test plans in order to verify the quality of deliverable(s)
• Implement deliverables into a business line with minimum disruption and/or intervention of day-to-day business activities.
• Perform quality control, review, analyse, and evaluate how project performance can be enhanced.
• Generate and create reports; research and analyse data and report trends to management/ business partners.
• Adhere to established governance structures and control requirements for projects and programmes.
• Interact with project sponsor and senior management and streamline communication.
• Project management of issue and risk identification and either mitigation or resolution thereof
• Works independently setting own priorities and objectives with supervisory consultation.
• Regularly makes recommendations to and influences department policies and procedures.
• Actively contributes to the results of a team and works towards achieving team goals and objectives.
• Prepare and present project status reporting, dashboards and Steerco updates.
  
  

Competencies

Role Competencies

• Keep abreast of industry best practices by liaising with external project management forums.
• Deciding and initiating action
• Cross-department collaboration skills will be required, along with hands-on efforts using the actual tools.
• Data management skills – ability to manage large data sets (data mining and interrogation)
• Analytical skills to determine root cause of problems and apply creative and effective solutions.
• Ability to cope under pressure and high work volumes.
• Ability to pay attention to details.
• Results orientated.
• Completer-finisher/Drive for Results.
• Facilitation and Presentation skills
• Innovation and design skills
• Business Acumen
• Collaboration