Project Manager

Reporting to the Deputy Managing Director of the Bank, this position is accountable for leading the project management (PM) discipline of the organization and ensuring projects are properly planned, selected, resourced, and delivered according to the perceived business value, results, cost, quality and timing by the functional project managers in the organization. The incumbent provides leadership, organization, coordination and serves as a regulatory body ensuring that organizational projects are adhering to the best practices, company policies and standards. The individual promotes the adoption of standardized systems/solutions in alignment with the business strategy. Led by the incumbent, the Project Management Office (PMO) is to provide COE support, training, and development and to promote the continuous improvement of the project management profession in the organization. In addition, the position is to provide timely management information and reporting with regard to the health and risks of the project for business management project issue resolutions.

• Business Analysis
• Requirements Gathering and analysis.
• Project Management – Strategic and Tactical Projects
• Business Process Analysis and optimization, Innovation and Transformation
• Program Management
• Portfolio Management
• Organizational Project Management
• Agile Project Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• User Acceptance Testing and System Integration Testing
• Documentation
• Reporting

• Minimum a degree holder in the field of computer sciences or project management
• At least 8+ direct work experience in a project management capacity covering the entire project life cycle with regional governance exposure.
• Certification in PMP is mandatory; certification in Six Sigma/ PRINCE2 is an advantage.
• Possess strong insight of industrial practices and be able to bring the most cost-effective governance and execution models with continuous improvement of the subject to the division.
• Can lead, influence and drive execution regionally and be able to direct effective deployment of stakeholders in the region.
• Strong change management leadership
• Strong IT background with knowledge of infrastructure and application development.
• Understand the software development life cycle.
• Demonstrate the ability to manage a project from initiation to closure.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments
• Strong written and oral communication skills; be able to contribute and influence the decision of various regional senior key stakeholders.
• Knowledge in financial analysis and benefit tracking of projects will be an advantage.
• Working knowledge of Risk Management
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture a plus
• Experience with Business process design and improvement required.
• Certification in Business Process Design considered a plus.

• Good analysis and problem-solving skills
• Negotiation skills
• Administrative skills
• Team player
• Excellent writing and presentation skills

• Oversee gathering of requirements through formal requirements gathering methodologies.
• Oversee the collation of requirements into standard requirements gathering templates for sign-off
• Assist with stakeholder identification and analysis according to established methodologies.
• Provide guidance and subject matter expertise on Requirements Gathering and Business Analysis

• Execute the project planning process according to the stipulated process and policies.
• Monitor the project officer’s work comprising follow ups with vendors, internal project customers and other relevant parties to projects
• Execute and provide oversight on project planning activities covering but not limited to:
  • Scope definition
  • Project schedule analysis and schedule creation
  • Quality metrics definition and monitoring
  • Risk analysis and ongoing maintenance of a risk register.
  • Project resourcing decisions and follow up.
• Provide guidance and subject matter expertise on project planning.

• Lead the execution of planned project covering these activities:
  • Proactive risk monitoring utilizing the risk register.
  • Proactive issues tracking utilizing issues log
  • Proactive tracking of scheduling using the project schedule
  • Proactive tracking of resources utilizing the resource calendar and scheduled work.
  • Documentation updates (plans, registers, trackers, etc.)
• Daily project work tracking utilizing project schedule
• Overseeing the processing and follow up of vendor payments, per diems, etc.
• Provide guidance and subject matter expertise on project delivery approaches

• Review Business Processes and business policies in relation to projects to assess support for project delivery
• Make recommendations, where appropriate, for improvements to facilitate excellent project delivery and increased business value
• Provide guidance and subject matter expertise on business process analysis and optimization

• Apply, where applicable, the principles of Program and Portfolio Management to bring consistency to the process of managing projects.
• Manage, the entire repertoire of projects using the principles of program and portfolio management to increase business value, strategy-project alignment and resource utilization.
• Be a custodian of the IT Projects Manual and SOP, providing yearly reviews of processes to keep in line with modern project, program and portfolio management best practices.
• Ensuring compliance of all projects to the SOP.
• Apply, where applicable and useful to delivery, the principles and practices of Agile Project Management

• Work in tandem with the Head, IT Strategy and Architecture to arrive at scalable architecture for projects.
• Provide architecture recommendations, where applicable.

• Prepare and submit weekly reports for each project in the combined portfolio

• Prepare and maintain project management artefacts as stipulated by the Projects SOP, including but not limited to: project schedule, project plan, risk register, issues log, payments tracker, project dashboards, communications plan, stakeholder register, etc.
• Prepare and submit a project closure report detailing follow-on actions at the close of each project
• Prepare and circulate lessons learned for each completed or terminated project.
• Ensure that documentation is organized and accessible to project stakeholders as needed.

• Provide oversight and guidance to Business Units in the preparation of user acceptance test scripts
• Oversee the User Acceptance Testing process, where necessary and applicable
• Collate and provide a comprehensive User Acceptance Testing report

• Notification of projects slipping by pre-determined allowed slippages per project.
• Immediate notification of projects for which critical path activities have slippage
• Escalation of non-compliant vendors or project team members.

• Report all suspicious or fraudulent activities to Compliance.
• Report project governance non-compliance to Head, IT Security and Compliance.

Internal

Key Stake holders 

External

Vendors where applicable