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Job Description:

• This is 12 – month contract with our client in the banking sector.
• We are seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Project Manager to plan, direct, and coordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects across the business. In this role, you will ensure that project goals are fully aligned with our overall business strategy and delivered with excellence. You will be responsible for defining comprehensive project plans—specifying strategy, staffing, scheduling, risk mitigation, and optimal resource allocation.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Planning & Strategy: Develop end-to-end project plans defining scope, objectives, schedules, governance, and resource requirements in line with corporate strategic goals.
• Enterprise Execution: Direct and coordinate cross-functional project teams to deliver complex, large-scale enterprise initiatives on time and within budget.
• Risk & Contingency Management: Proactively identify project risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks; build and execute robust contingency plans.
• Resource & Capacity Allocation: Manage the allocation of internal and external resources, balancing workloads and optimizing team productivity.
• Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for executive sponsors and key business leaders, providing transparent status reporting and driving alignment.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years of proven experience managing enterprise-wide projects, portfolios, or complex transformation programs.
• Methodologies: Strong proficiency in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project management frameworks (PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile certifications preferred).
• Leadership: Exceptional leadership, stakeholder negotiation, and team-coordination skills.
• Problem Solving: Proven track record in strategic risk identification, contingency planning, and resource optimization.

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Job Description:

• This is a 12 - month contract with our client in the banking sector

Job Purpose

• To conduct the end-to-end management of the strategy; execution; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing; directing and controlling of all aspects of projects or programmes for a project function in ensuring the successful implementation of Projects to realize strategy.

Job Responsibilities

• Model the capacity requirements across full portfolio of projects per requirements.
• Communicate the impact of capacity requirements and drive capacity planning.
• Ensure structures are in place that drive alignment of capacity requirements with strategic priority.
• Drive practices and business principles that achieve optimised capacity planning and resource allocation onto projects.
• Set up and enable the management of branch budgets against an agreed financial model that considers operations and growth strategies as these align to the  strategy.
• Participate in the strategy planning for the function.
• Ensure optimal team delivery.
• Consider the commercial relevance of the function to ensure a clear competitive capability, leveraging off leading industry benchmarks.
• Ensure value add cross pollinate successful solutions with other project management functional teams.
• Ensure that the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function.
• Manage performance of reports and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their reports.
• Actively build a culture of improvement.
• Contribute to team effectiveness by participating in the recruitment and selection of senior staff.
• Optimise performance and motivation.
• Empower team to make decisions and recommend tailored solutions to Business Unit specific problems.
• Drive practices and business principles that achieve optimised capacity planning and resource allocation onto projects.
• Ensure the achievement of targets by monitoring implemented Divisional EE and Transformation Plan, correcting any deviations.
• Support strategy by driving corporate citizenship.
• Develop, implement and measure the effectiveness of a strategy to build a differentiated culture.
• Ensure optimal team delivery

Job Responsibilities Continue

• People Specification

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level:

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree

Preferred Qualification:

• SMP/ MBA or equivalent

Essential Certifications:

• PMP or Prince certification. Programme Management certification (PGMP)

Minimum Experience Level:

• 12-15 years' experience working in a project environment of large project and or programmes of which 3-5 years in Senior management roles

Technical / Professional Knowledge:

• Budgeting
• Capacity planning Capacity planning
• Change management Change management
• proficiency description of Employee training/development Employee training/development
• Financial Accounting Principles Financial Accounting Principles
• Organisational behaviour theory Organisational behaviour theory
• Relevant regulatory knowledge Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Stakeholder management Stakeholder management
• Strategic planning Strategic planning
• Business writing skills Business writing skills

Behavioural Competencies:

• Focus Customer Focus
• Business Savvy 
• Building Talent 
• Planning and supporting the development of individuals' knowledge, skills, and abilities so that they can fulfil current or future job responsibilities more effectively.
• Establishing and committing to a long-term business direction based on an analysis of systemic information and consideration of resources, market drivers, organizational values, and emerging economic, technological, and regulatory conditions.
• Cultivating Networks and Partnerships Cultivating Networks and Partnerships
• Driving Execution Driving Execution
• Establishing Strategic Direction
• Operational Decision-Making Operational Decision Making

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• We are seeking an experienced Scrum Master for an 8-month contract to drive Agile delivery within a key workstream of a large-scale Ecosystem Modernisation Programme for a premier financial institution in Centurion.

Core Responsibilities

• Agile Delivery Facilitation: Facilitate all core Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives), maintain clear sprint goals, and remove delivery impediments.
• Technical Delivery Enablement: Enable teams delivering across digital platforms, systems integration, APIs, and data. Coordinate collaboration across technical specialists, architects, and vendors to manage interdependencies.
• Platform & Infrastructure Collaboration: Actively interface with platform engineering, architecture, and infrastructure teams to ensure alignment, integration readiness, and smooth execution across non-functional requirements.
• Workstream Leadership Partnership: Collaborate with the Workstream Lead to translate strategic intent into refined backlogs while flagging delivery risks and trade-offs early.
• Agile Coaching & Team Maturity: Coach teams on Agile practices, fostering self-organisation, transparency, continuous improvement, and long-term autonomy.
• PMO Governance & Reporting: Maintain accurate delivery metrics (JIRA/Confluence) and align Agile practices with PMO governance and programme cadence without reverting to waterfall behaviours.

Minimum Requirements

• Experience: 5–8+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or Agile delivery practitioner in complex, multi-stream environments.

Technical & Platform Knowledge:

• Solid understanding of software delivery, modern engineering toolchains (JIRA, Confluence, Git-based tools, CI/CD), and enterprise architecture foundations.
• Proven experience working closely with platform engineering, architecture, and infrastructure teams.
• Relevant tertiary qualification in IT, Business, or a related field.
• Recognized Agile/Scrum certification (e.g., CSM, PSM I/II, SAFe Scrum Master, or equivalent).