Delivery Lead - (573) at BankservAfrica

Your key responsibilities include:

• Manage “portfolio” budgets and costs relevant to the department/area. “Portfolio” in this context refers to a specific business area like IT, Customer, Product, or Shared Services.
• Build capability and future talent within the area and related to requirements in the respective Portfolio.
• Coach managers and technical specialists.
• Manage relevant stakeholders.
• Responsible for risk and compliance management as related to projects in the portfolio.
• 1-year departmental plans translated into quarterly targets.
• Manage delivery relationships and alignment with stakeholder expectations.
• Ensuring required compliance with EPMO standards, Enterprise Risk, and Internal Audit.
• Governance and assurance alignment within the EPMO.
• Manage the terms of engagement and service level expectations with the respective Portfolio management and EPMO team.
• Alignment of deliverables and implementation expectations.
• Strategic portfolio planning and implementation feedback.
• Alignment of delivery with strategic objectives.
• Contribute to the development of processes and procedures and reporting.
• Provide guidance in terms of methodology and ways of work. 
• Assisting in the resolution of escalated issues and driving appropriate corrective actions.
• Ensuring there is allocation of required resources and skills across projects and programmes in the assigned area.
• Managing stakeholder relationships including communications with stakeholders.
• Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects and programmes.
• Managing consolidated risks to ensure successful outcomes.
• Providing input into Change Navigation and Benefits Management plans.  
• Providing consolidated reporting on the overall progress of projects and programmes at regular intervals.
• Anticipating and managing issues, initiating management interventions as required.
• Influencing the team and leveraging lessons learnt from past experiences.
• Oversee the management of projects/programmes as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS / KNOWLEDGE

• Bachelor degree with honours or equivalent Post Graduate Degree - preferred
• PfMP certification (preferrable)
• PMP certification
• Required computer literacy levels in the MS Office suite and applicable Programme Management Applications

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in Project Management and allied disciplines 
• Experience in Payments and Banking industry will be an advantage
• Experience in budget management. 
• Experience in facilitating meetings and consultations with internal and external stakeholders at various levels.