(857) Strategy Portfolio Manager - ExMan at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Develop and continually improve fit-for-purpose portfolio management products and services (framework, practices, methods, tools and templates).
• Structure the portfolio aligned to the strategy to enable planning for its execution.
• Drive and facilitate demand management within the portfolio to ensure alignment to the strategy and that sufficient capacity exists to execute it.
• Drive and facilitate prioritisation within a portfolio and across portfolios to achieve portfolio balancing for effective execution.
• Drive and facilitate enterprise business capacity planning to achieve resource balancing for execution.
• Partner with key SARB departments, such as the Business Solutions and Technology Department, Internal Audit Department, Financial Services Department, Risk Management and Compliance Department and Human Resources Department, and project management offices to collaborate on the effective execution of the portfolio.
• Develop and manage relationships with key business stakeholders through the Strategy Management Office (SMO) business partnering model to enable the delivery of the portfolio management process.
• Drive and facilitate portfolio financial management and have a view of the total cost perspective, using a multi-year view for the proactive budgeting of projects ahead of each financial year.
• Use advanced analytics to understand the relationships or cause and effect within the strategy to provide insight to the business to constantly test and adapt strategy.
• Provide enterprise and business portfolio performance reporting and insight.
• Provide detailed programme and project performance reporting of strategic initiatives for the executive portfolio.
• Maintain a network with other central banks or similar industries and keep abreast of portfolio management trends.
• Identify and mitigate risks related to own function and ensure compliance with relevant governance frameworks as defined by the SARB.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honours degree or an equivalent (NQF 8) qualification; 
• a minimum of 8 to 10 years’ experience in project and programme management, with at least three years of solid experience in a strategic/enterprise-wide portfolio management environment; and
• relevant project/programme management certification (e.g. PRINCE2 practitioner, Agile Scrum Master, Project Management Body of Knowledge).

The following would be an added advantage:

• Portfolio Management Professional certification; and 
• a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree.