Job Description

Brief Description:
Are you a highly experienced Senior Project Manager with a strong track record of delivering complex banking and financial services projects? I'm currently inviting Senior Project Managers with a minimum of 8 years' experience to apply for upcoming contract and permanent opportunities across South Africa. This role is ideal for professionals with extensive experience in payment systems and credit systems within regulated banking environments.
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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (IT, Business, or related field preferred).
• Project Management certification required:

• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile (Scrum / SAFe), or equivalent.

Experience & Skills Required:

• 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.

Apply now to be considered for upcoming opportunities.
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Project Management | Data & Analytics | Cloud & DevOps | Cyber Security
For more information please contact:
Zandi Masangwana

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