Fresh Vacancies at Juru Holdings

Job Description

Our client, a leading financial services company in Cape Town, is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join their team on a 12-month contract basis.

Minimum Requirements:

• 10-15 years’ experience working in a project environment of which 5-6  years working with medium to high complexity projects
• Experience in the Financial Services industry is essential
• Formal Project Management certification from an accredited Project Management body (e.g. PMP, AMP, Prince2, MSP) - preferred
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, frameworks and best practices, as well as project management tools in a waterfall and agile context
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to meet deadlines/milestones
• Strong negotiation skills

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Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our project operations team as a portfolio intelligence analyst. Overall, a portfolio intelligence analyst plays a critical role in supporting project management activities, driving efficiency, mitigating risks, and ensuring the successful delivery of projects within an organization. 

In this role you will be responsible for managing and optimizing project support tools, ensuring their effective utilization across projects, and providing technical support to project teams. 

You should have a strong analytical technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and a passion for streamlining processes and improving efficiency along with a solid understanding of project management principles and methodologies. 

What will make you successful in this role?

• Administer and maintain project support tools, such as project management software, collaboration platforms, and reporting tools.
• Customize and configure project support tools such as PPO, Jira, Power BI to meet the specific needs and requirements of project teams and portfolios.
• Design and develop BI reports, dashboards, and data visualizations using tools such as Power BI, or similar platforms.
• Customize Jira workflows, screens, fields, and permissions to meet the needs of various teams and projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate business needs into actionable project and portfolio support items.
• Conduct training sessions and workshops for users to maximize utilization of project support tools, promoting best practices and efficiency.
• Provide technical support to project teams on the use of project support tools.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for portfolio support tools and related processes.
• Identify opportunities to automate tasks, streamline workflows, and enhance data quality.
• Develop and implement best practices, guidelines, and standards for utilizing project support tools.
• Collaborate with IT teams to troubleshoot technical issues and ensure seamless integration of project support tools with other systems.
• Monitor and analyze usage data and metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization.
• Stay updated with industry trends and advancements in project support tools and recommend new tools or enhancements as needed.
• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new project support tools. 

Qualification

• Grade 12
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Certifications in Jira administration or BI tools are desirable but not mandatory

Experience 

• As a Project Support Tool Specialist or similar role.
• Hands-on experience with BI tools such as Power BI, or similar platforms, including report or dashboard development and data modeling.
• Experience in customizing and configuring project support tools to meet specific requirements. 

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong technical skills with proficiency in project management software (e.g., PPO, Jira Align, Clarity), collaboration platforms (e.g., Microsoft Teams,), and reporting tools (e.g, Power BI).
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to train and support project teams.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies (e.g. Agile, Waterfall) is a plus.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment

Personal Attributes

• Action orientated - Contributing independently
• Business insight - Contributing independently
• Customer focus - Contributing independently
• Plans and aligns - Contributing independently
• Collaborates - Contributing independently

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Job Description

• Our client in the financial services industry is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join their team on a 6 Month contract basis in the Western Cape.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Requirements Documentation
• Stakeholder management and communication skills
• Execution of business analysis methodology
• Identify, refine, clarify, and define the business need.
• Able to assist with project requirements planning.
• Applying and anticipating technical expertise 
• Process documentation
• Business Requirements specification
• Impact Assessment
• Ad-hoc reporting
• Process and data integrity
• Project Management Skills
• Strong Business Analytic Skills
• Execution and implementation of identified solutions and processes

Experience and Qualifications required:

• 5 + years’ experience as a Business Analyst
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to gather and interpret information.
• Background in compliance and or Anti Money Laundering processes (Advantageous)
• Project experience through a life cycle of implementation
• Proficiency in business process analysis, requirement elicitation, and documentation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
• Detail-oriented mindset with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities.
• Experience in mapping out complex business processes
• Professional certifications in business analysis (e.g., CBAP, PMI-PBA, BA diploma)

Competencies

• Solid understanding of Business Processes and project ways of working
• Self-starter, independent worker
• High cognitive ability.

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Job Description

Our client, a leading financial services company in Cape Town, is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to join their team on a 12-month contract basis.

Minimum Requirements:

• 10-15 years’ experience working in a project environment of which 5-6  years working with medium to high complexity projects
• Experience in the Financial Services industry is essential
• Experience managing D365 / Ms Dynamics projects
• Formal Project Management certification from an accredited Project Management body (e.g. PMP, AMP, Prince2, MSP) - preferred
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, frameworks and best practices, as well as project management tools in a waterfall and agile context
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to meet deadlines/milestones
• Strong negotiation skills

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Job Description

The Data Migration Manager will have complete responsibility for:

• Leading on the data migration needs for the new solution
• Overseeing and ensuring delivery of all aspects of data analysis, mapping and transfer
• Owning the quality of the migrated data and the validity of the migration processes and operation

Key responsibilities of the Data Migration Manager will include:

• Identifying the data migration impact of all proposed changes
• Reviewing gaps and proposing a solution for data migration during the solution design phase
• Devise and get approval for the data migration strategy for the implementation
• Oversee and ensure the production of a mapping matrix for all data
• Oversee and ensure a gap analysis for any missing or archive data
• Reviewing as is data quality and putting in place plans to address any required data quality improvements
• Oversee and ensure the building of intermediate database creation scripts
• Oversee and ensure the building of data validation scripts
• Ensure the accurate filling of intermediate data tables during data load

Required skills and experience must include:

• Proven management of data migration projects
• Experience of working in a complex, multi-priority organisation
• Experience of working within delivery teams for projects of significant size
• Knowledge of Financial/Insurance Services Corporate products or big data migration