time left to apply End Date: November 26, 2024 (4 days left to apply)
job requisition id R-15969406
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
To provide project management services and to develop, maintain and enhance operational business relationships.
Job Description
Project Management:
- Monitors the progression of a project at every stage and ensure that the objectives of a project are met.
- The Project Manager is accountable for:
- Managing relationships with the project stakeholders and customers.
- Creating and maintaining a consistent, coherent project plan that can be used to guide project execution and project control.
- Planning, defining the scope of the project and controlling changes.
- Formalising acceptance of the scope by stakeholders.
- Planning resources, estimating cost, allocating project budget and controlling changes to the budget.
- Maintain quality planning, quality assurance and quality control for the project.
- Identifying, documenting and assigning project roles, responsibilities and reporting relationships.
- Ensuring timely and appropriate generation and dissemination of project information.
- Identifying, analysing and managing project risks.
Plan & Organise:
- Define, communicate and gain agreement on the project scope.
- Estimate costs, schedule and resource requirements for the successful delivery of the project to an agreed scope.
- Assist the Business Analyst, as necessary, in the development of a Business Case for the project.
- Work with the Solution Architect, System Analyst, and Solution Delivery Manager to ensure that the project adheres to enterprise Architectural standards.
- Divide the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. Identify the specific activities that must be performed to produce the project deliverables.
- Identify and document dependencies between activities.
- Analyse activity sequences, activity durations and resource requirements to prepare the project schedule.
- Evaluate risks and risk interactions to assess the range of possible project outcomes.
- Identify procurement requirements. Build and manage project charters, schedules, quality plans, budgets, and communication and risk management plans for projects.
- Clearly specify the needs of individuals and of the team overall to meet the needs of the project.
Deliver & Support:
- Deliver projects in keeping with cost, quality, schedule and agreed criteria.
- Identify, assess and manage project risks, which could result in time or cost overruns or failure to deliver products which are fit for purpose.
- Optimise total utilisation for all project resources.
- Ensure the participation and commitment of project stakeholders to project activities / reviews as required.
- Ensure timely dissemination of appropriate project information to stakeholders.
- Control changes to project scope, schedule and budget.
- Collect and disseminate performance information - status reporting, progress measurement and forecasting.
- Manage responses to risks and changes to risks over the course of the project.
- Generate, gather and disseminate information to formalize project completion.
- Ensure that projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are captured and published.
Education
National Diplomas and Advanced Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required).
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.
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