Tax Project Manager at PwC South Africa

You will be responsible for:

• Managing a range of complex, high value, projects and programmes from kick off through to project closure.
• Delivering through standard PM methodologies and processes (e.g. for planning, reporting, billing) and helping drive adoption throughout a team/programme.
• Building, developing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders of all grades including very senior stakeholders, both internally and with clients.
• Anticipating and recovering potential delivery issues before they occur through proactive management.
• Ensuring the effective use of resources within the programme/Line of Service, to deliver change efficiently and ensuring cost is minimised.
• Supporting projects to set up clear business / scope requirements and ensure delivery of these, communicating progress through the agreed reporting routes and managing changes through the agreed, fit for purpose governance processes.
• Communicating with delivery teams to drive alignment on processes and standards.
• Effectively managing key stakeholders to ensure they understand progress of subworkstreams and interdependent workstreams.
• Facilitating the effective flow of information through the governance structure.
• Creating and maintaining meaningful MI that provides insight to programme progress.
• Regular tracking of the project’s overall status including, risk tracking, budget tracking and financial management.
• Effectively and responsibly leveraging technology tools and working with delivery capability in other territories
• Driving the continuous improvement agenda for the project/team.

Knowledge, skills and experience required 

• Qualification in project/programme management (e.g., PRINCE2 or similar)
• Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams – experience of working within the Financial Services sector would be beneficial.
• Proficiency in both waterfall and agile methodologies with a growth mindset embedding best practice through a culture of continuous improvement and coaching.
• Capable of switching between workstream detail and programme level and can join the dots across organisation, strategy, programme, and project levels.
• Excellent communication and relationships building skills.
• Evidenced ability to command respect and create a sense of vision and purpose amongst the project team.
• Experienced at presenting to Exec level stakeholders, with the ability to influence stakeholders to drive successful outcomes.