Programme Manager at CA Global

Responsibilities: 
 
Programme and/or Project Management of Articulated Issues, Risks and Opportunities:

• Provide leadership around project scoping, management and measurement to address these across the business
• In collaboration with senior management and relevant stakeholders, facilitate / oversee the facilitation of workshops / sessions to research, analyse and understand underlying project motivations and core assumptions and key players’ motivations, agendas, roles and mandates
• Oversee the development and implementation of a communication strategy that translates strategic project objectives into clear action plans
• Set up governance frameworks and structures, e.g. monthly Steercos and manage the communication of project expectations and progress to team members and business stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Define project success criteria and communicate these to relevant stakeholders throughout projects’ life cycles
• Ensure completion of legal documentation for all projects
• Where project control is in jeopardy, create contingency plans with appropriate input from key team members and implement a revised project schedule, scope and/or budget
• Work with PMO teams to ensure business stakeholder have an understanding of expectations, deliverable, dependencies, risks, issues and project progress

Financial Management:

• In consultation with relevant stakeholders, develop project budgets
• Monitor project expenses and take action to manage and mitigate variances, and Identify and implement cost efficiencies

Risk Management:

• Keep an accurate risk and issue tracking document with an associated mitigation plan
• Collaborate with Risk and Internal Audit to build and maintain a robust and integrated control environment
• Identify and mitigate risks to enable ROI, e.g. from an IT, regulatory and governance and/or tactical / strategic perspective

Stakeholder Engagement and Change Management:

• Display abilities to build relationships at all organisational levels, demonstrating sound abilities to listen, challenge, influence, present, guide and negotiate
• Play a strong stakeholder management and alignment role in holding and communicating the desired vision and strategy
• Ensure alignment to other strategic projects and initiatives
• Integrate opinions and information provided by various sources to make strategic decisions
• Represent the function on relevant internal and external bodies as required

Team Leadership, Management and Mentoring:

• Facilitate strategy formulation with PMO teams and project sponsors, set the pace and tone for the function and ensure everyone is focused on the right priorities
• Take full responsibility for performance management of all direct reports, focusing on all aspects of sound people management

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

• Relevant Degree
• Project Management qualification essential (e.g. CAPM and other Project Administration Qualification)
• Post-Graduate Degree Advantageous
• 7-10+ years’ Senior Business Consulting experience combining stakeholder engagement at all levels, problem solving skills and exposure to relevant frameworks, processes and technology
• Project and programme management skills, e.g. Prince 2
• Programme Management experience across African Countries would be highly advantageous
• Process analysis and engineering skills
• Knowledge and understanding of banking
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Financial and operational risk management skills in a banking environment
• Knowledge of the full MS Office suite and MS Projects
• Fluency in English essential