Senior Project Manager – Banking, Payments & Credit Systems
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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Job Summary
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of banking, payments, and credit system projects.
- Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and change control.
- Drive delivery across payments platforms, credit systems, lending solutions, and core banking environments.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams including IT, business, vendors, and third-party service providers.
- Ensure compliance with banking governance, regulatory, and risk frameworks.
- Manage stakeholder engagement at senior executive and technical levels.
- Oversee project documentation, RAID logs, and executive reporting.
- Support testing, migration, cutover, and go-live activities.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (IT, Business, or related field preferred).
- Project Management certification required:
- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile (Scrum / SAFe), or equivalent.
- Minimum 8 years' experience as a Project Manager within Banking or Financial Services.
- Extensive hands-on experience delivering Payment Systems (e.g., cards, EFT, real-time payments, switching).
- Extensive experience working with Credit Systems (lending, loans, credit scoring, origination, collections).
- Strong technical project management background across IT and system implementations.
- Proven experience working with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models.
- Solid understanding of SDLC, system integration, and enterprise banking architectures.
- Strong vendor, stakeholder, and executive management capabilities.
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Job IdJD1650320
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
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EducationNot mentioned