Project Manager-JHB

Project Manager – Financial Services Disruptor!

Location: Johannesburg, SA – Hybrid |Salary: Competitive (like your mind set)

Big Moves, Bold Projects, No Snooze-Fest!

Are you the kind of Project Manager who sees change coming and races to meet it head on? Our client is shaking up the financial services landscape with high-impact projects that challenge the status quo. If your idea of a good time is steering complex initiatives, wrangling stakeholders, and keeping all the plates spinning (without dropping a single one), then keep reading.

Your Mission (Should You Choose to Accept It)

• Drive change the right way: lead transformative projects that actually make a difference.
• Evaluate project performance, skills requirements for delivery, manage and resolve risks and issues, and provide project updates to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with finance and business teams to deliver high level subject matter analysis for project objectives that enable detailed project work to commence.
• Solving complex industry specific problems.
• Diagnose, design, and deliver game-changing solutions.
• Bringing fresh ideas to the table and challenging the status quo.
• Keep chaos in check: manage scope, timelines, and budgets like a pro.
• Speak fluent stakeholder: translate business needs into action and keep executives, teams, and clients on the same page, enable a coordinated delivery, sometimes in a portfolio of projects.
• Risk? We eat that for breakfast. Identify, manage, and mitigate risks before they become issues.
• Tech + Strategy = Your Playground: partner with business and IT teams to make sure solutions work, not just look good on paper.

You’ll Fit Right in, If You…

• Hold a relevant bachelor’s degree with strong preference for a post graduate qualification (PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile certifications? Even better!).
• Have 5+ years of experience leading high-stakes projects in financial services & technology.
• Be technically proficient in project management software such as MS Project, JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Have practical application experience of project management methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall.
• Bonus points if you have a background of relevant data analytics, software and / or programming skills with tools such as SQL, SAS, Python.
• Can spot a risk a mile away and solve problems before they even exist.
• Are a master communicator: your updates will be legendary.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Work on projects that actually change the financial landscape.
• Collaborate with brilliant minds who thrive on innovation.
• Challenge yourself, grow your skill set, and make a real impact.

Ready to drive change and own your career? Apply now!