ABSA Career – Project Manager

Job Description:

To provide project management services and to develop, maintain and enhance operational business relationships

Job Responsibilities:

• Evaluate overall project performance on a regular basis to ensure that the project will satisfy relevant quality requirements.
• Monitor specific project results to ensure compliance with relevant quality standards and identify ways to eliminate unsatisfactory performance.
• Effectively conduct research into and make use of appropriate existing intellectual property as relevant to assigned project tasks
• Creating and maintaining a consistent, coherent project plan that can be used to guide project execution and project control
• Ensure the participation and commitment of project stakeholders to project activities / reviews as required.
• Collect and disseminate performance information – status reporting, progress measurement and forecasting.
• Identify, assess and manage project risks, which could result in time or cost overruns or failure to deliver products which are fit for purpose.
• Formalising acceptance of the scope by stakeholders
• Control changes to project scope, schedule and budget.
• Planning, defining the scope of the project and controlling changes
• Ensure timely dissemination of appropriate project information to stakeholders.
• Optimise total utilisation for all project resources.

Job Requirements:

• Exposure in Stakeholder Management.
• Exposure and Knowledge of Banking and Financial Services business.
• Exposure in Project Management.
• Exposure in Change Management.

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor¡¦s degree in Information Systems or related field, compulsory.
• Minimum 2 years¡¦ Project Management experience.
• Minimum 1 years¡¦ Consulting/ Change Management experience, advantageous.
• Minimum 2 years¡¦ IT/ IT Consulting experience.
• Recognised project management qualification (PMP/ PRINCE2), compulsory.
• Business Case Management experience, compulsory.
• Minimum 2 years¡¦ Financial Services Industry experience.

Job Details:

Company: Absa Group Limited

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Randburg, Gauteng, SA

Application Deadline: N/A