Program/Project Manager – Functional Finance

Location- Sandton, Johannesburg

We are looking for a project manager within the Central Finance Technology team who will plan, manage, and lead the delivery of multiple projects globally (strategic/business/technical), in line with the project management governance framework, change management and IT governance standards. The project manager will be responsible for the successful delivery of the required outcomes (scope) within the approved timeframe (schedule) and cost (budget).

Responsibilities include day-to-day management of all aspects of prioritised and approved change delivery activity across the global business utilising the defined Cloud and System Delivery Life Cycle (CDLC/SDLC) to manage project delivery; responsibility for regular progress and status reporting for all assigned change delivery activities, as well as proactively identifying, reporting and managing all risks, issues and changes that may impact the project outcomes; balance the competing demands of scope, time, cost, quality, resources and risk; delivery of the project outcomes to meet the stakeholder needs on budget and on time and participating fully in the development of the Change Delivery team and processes. Set up and facilitation of relevant governance and functional or change forums necessary for the project delivery.

Experience, skill and capability

• Finance and accounting experience
• Finance systems management or implementation including change management
• Experience working across geographies
• Structured project management methodologies and skills
• IT literate (must understand cloud technology and Microsoft office suite proficient).
• Agile or lean project management methodologies – must balance managing BAU work with Project Delivery
• Global stakeholder management
• Communication skills – verbal and written

Advantageous Skills / Exposure

• Finance transformation projects
• Oracle ERP – General Ledger and Enterprise Performance Reporting
• Cloud technologies: Oracle Fusion and Microsoft Azure
• Exposure to DevOps and DORA metrics an advantage
• Change management accreditation
• Business process and Change management