SAP Program and Project Manager - Midrand at Accenture

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with clients to define/tailor program/project governance for large SAP Programs based on best practice.
• Define the overall project management plan and/or governance strategies needed to manage SAP programs/projects.
• Implement program/project governance throughout the program/project phases as required.
• Setup and facilitate risk, issue, and change request meetings and facilitate the meetings with program/project team members.
• Understand resource demand requirements, log resource demand, and facilitate the process of onboarding and offboarding program/projects resources as required.
• Lead a program/project management office team responsible for managing all governance activities across the program/project.
• Identify risks/issues and work with program/program managers, team members and stakeholders to determine risk/issue mitigation/resolution plans.
• Forecast program/project financials and be able to navigate through program/project financials with delivery leads/project managers to advise necessary actions needed maintain program/project financial health.
• Setup reporting templates and cadences among program/project teams as well as, guide and coach team members in creating effective status reports as needed.
• Facilitate the creation of program and steering committee reports with senior program/project stakeholders and, facilitate the process of preparing for program/steering committee meetings.
• Facilitate program/project invoicing activities with the management team and the client, ensuring that invoicing is accurate.
• Setup program/project high-level and detailed level project plans and, update and maintain said project plans during the execution phases of the program.
• Provide guidance and coaching to workstream leads to create workstream plans that will be used to manage functional and cross-functional work plans.
• Analyse project plans based on updates made to understand the program/project critical path and draw attention to decision makers and stakeholders regarding priority tasks that needs to be acted on to recover the overall project plan where needed.
• Provide guidance to program/project teams regarding how to log change requests and how to take the change request through the change approval process for a decision.
• Setup the program/project management configuration management and knowledge management processes and ensure compliance to the processes defined.
• Setup RACI matrices that articles team member roles and responsibilities.
• Setup deliverable responsibility matrices and implement the approval process on program/projects.
• Define quality management processes for program/project teams and implement the said processes once reviewed and approved.
• Create and facilitate the review of stage gate criteria documentation and processes that will be executed by the program/project.
• Facilitate stage gate assessments and final decisions with the program/project team and decision makers.
• Facilitate discussions with decision makers to close key design decisions among the program/project and document the decision in the appropriate decision log or ensure compliance of decision logging among the program/project team.
• Close program/projects once they have been completed and accepted by the client.
• Have a continuous improvement mindset, finding opportunities to improve ways of working and efficiency on program/projects.
• Work with the Delivery Excellence capability within the Accenture SAP practice to grow the skills, and delivery excellence team.

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Information Technology, Information Systems, computer science or similar.
• Project Management Certification (PMP, P3O or similar) preferred
• MS Project
• Bonus: MS PowerBI