Project Manager (JHB Illovo) at BDO South Africa

Purpose of the role:

• As a seasoned Technology Project Manager with Business Analyst capabilities and experience, we expect you to plan, organize and oversee projects from start to finish. You should put measures in place to ensure a high level of success for the project. Utilize leading class project management frameworks to deliver project professionally, ensure the contentment of all project stakeholders, within the designated budget and timeline. A project manager identifies the project's goals, objectives, and scope and creates a project plan that outlines the tasks, timelines, and resources required. They communicate with the project team and stakeholders, manage risks and issues, and monitor progress to ensure that the project stays on track. A project manager also evaluates the project's success and identifies areas for improvement in future projects.

Responsibilities:

• Manage projects successfully from start to finish such that they run within the planned timeframes, within budget and within scope;
• Define Determine and define project scope and objectives;
• Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner;
• Adopts Project Management Best Practices: The project manager is responsible for defining, teaching, and enforcing the use of good project management practices, to drive successful delivery of projects;
• Manages to Project Priorities; Performs Risk Management: The project manager works with the project team and project stakeholder to resolve obstacles, issues and mitigates risks to the success of the project. The project manager's time each day is dedicated to addressing the project's top three-to-five priorities that impact planned delivery;
• Communicates Project Status Upward and to the Client: No significant project status leaves the boundaries of the project without project manager approval. The project managers communicates regularly on the status of the project and actions to resolve challenges;
• Drives Decision-Making to Lowest Level Possible. The project manager drives ownership of decisions to the level where the accountability of the decision must lie;
• Promotes Client Involvement. The project manager recognizes that project success is directly related to satisfying the client; therefore, client involvement is essential to ensure that the right product is built;
• Encourages and Supports Escalations. The project manager establishes a project culture where escalations to resolve “stagnant” problems are viewed as good business and not viewed as being personal;
• Enforces Effective Change Control. The project manager ensures that scope creep, communications, and quality are carefully managed;
• Mentors Project Members. The project manager is a teacher and a helper;
• Promotes Good Working Relationships. The project manager serves as a role model in promoting good working relationships across a project;
• Makes Things Happen. The project manager has the knowledge, skills and experience to be able to recognize when problems surface or potential problems are looming. The project manager must be able to articulate these problems, bring the right people together to solve those problems and know when the problem has been properly addressed and closed—all this with the proper sense of urgency that the problem requires.

Requirements

Purpose of the role :

Qualifications:

• Degree, Diploma or related qualification in IT, Computer Science or similar
• 7 and more years of experience in managing projects in the business and technology environment
• PMP ® certification, or Prince 2 or similar is preferred
• Proficiency is at least one (1) project management tool is preferred

Skills:

• Project budgeting, managing the finances of a project well
• Planning and execution on plans, managing deviations from plan
• Delivery through a team
• Managing a pressurized environment
• Dealing with difficult stakeholders
• Excellent communicator – both with technical teams and with business executives

Behavioral Competencies:

• Continuous learning mindset
• Consistently delivers high quality work
• Ability to meet deadlines (reliable and dependable)
• Proven application of providing guidance to junior members of the project team
• Displays initiative and takes accountability for delivery of own work
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
• Effective interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Sound mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others