Job Title: Technology Project Manager
Business Area: Kenya Barclays Bank Technology
Number and level of direct reports: N/A
Location: Nairobi
Language requirements: English
and Kiswahili
Change Delivery compromises all
technology and business disciplines/components of the Bank portfolio.
Main accountabilities and approximate
time split
Accountability: Drive/Provide Change Delivery Services
- Implement the Africa strategy so as to align
to the Vision and strategic direction of local Business and Barclays
Africa
- Plan and take responsibility for the overall
project objectives of own change portfolio
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables
that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and
stakeholders. (Agree annually and measure on a monthly basis).
- Effectively communicate project expectations
to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
- Estimate the resources and participants needed
to achieve project goals.
- Develop full-scale project plans and
associated communications documents.
- Keep monthly statistics and data to be
provided in MI reporting to senior management and stakeholders
- Capture/analyse and draft information into
meaningful MI reports for senior management, stakeholders, team reporting
and presentation purposes
- Present findings and conclusions together with
recommendations to deploy new services or remediate existing services
- Business Change interface and escalation point
for all project and infrastructure demand on own portfolio
- To engage collaboratively with project
stakeholders to ensure appropriate prioritisation of delivery.
- Ensure Project Governance is observed.
- Ensure procurement of Commodity project and
BAU related hardware/software is correct.
- Monitor Technical build, manufacture,
integration and implementation of the initiatives within the Country
- Adherence to operational acceptance procedures
and testing/approval process
- Ensure quality Assurance for Audit, Risk and
Governance across all the projects in your portfolio.
- Guide and govern suppliers for project related
activities ensuring they understand and adopt Bank agreed standards and
architectures along with adhering to policy and procedures.
- To work across all in-Country functions and to
act as an interface point between business and Technology
Accountability: Build sustainable practices
- Analyse effectiveness of processes and systems
in use in the Country team and make recommendations for improvements.
- Keep abreast of industry and business unit
changes by attending regular training, conferences, forums, reading and
engagement with subject matter experts and industry peers.
- Stay abreast of industry and operational
trends and ensure that the Country Technology is well positioned to
provide competitive and industry leading services.
- Take steps to capture practices, procedures
and knowledge into bank databases to ensure the sustainability of the
Country Technology practices, tools and learning.
- Challenge the established practices and
recommend improvements to continuously enhance and improve services within
the Bank.
- Alignment of current standards and practices
to Barclays
Accountability: Manage Stakeholders and Customers
- Expand and maintain networks with senior and
management stakeholders and role players.
- Build and foster relationships with colleagues
and business stakeholders and role players in order to improve overall
effectiveness.
- Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing
basis.
- Present Change Delivery in workshops, training
and create general awareness of the Change Delivery function as required
or scheduled.
- Attend to role players, stakeholders and
customer service requests, enquiries and complaints.
- Attend relevant forums where direction is
taken in terms of the future development of the Country Technology in
management and methodology
- Effectively communicate project expectations
to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.Develop and
deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and
presentations to the stakeholders.
Accountability: Risk Management
- Build relationship with country Technology
Risk and Compliance team and provide support wherever required.
- Ensure that processes and controls are
executed in daily work and understand the reasons for the controls and the
consequences for failing to adhere to prescribed processes.
- Test a sample of activities on a weekly basis
by reviewing documentation and checking work completed by team members to
see if control requirements are being adhered to. Coach the team members
on areas for improvement and highlight major failures to the manager of
the area
- Provide evidence/supporting documents to
auditors or management assurance consultants during formal reviews
- Identify losses due to processing errors or
internal fraud in the department. Escalate to the manager and provide all
the required information to allow logging of the Risk and Loss events.
Participate in the investigations
- Make team members aware of all changes to
policies, processes and procedures that are being planned for the area and
ensure that they are able to incorporate the changes on the effective
date. Ensure that team members read circulars that are relevant to the area
and answer questions they may have.
- Contribute and deliver to the improvement of
the risk profile by delivering improved governance, risk management,
controls and compliance requirements.
- Devise and implement an effective plan to
deliver a satisfactory risk and audit profile for Operations & IT and
achieve audit and assurance targets.
Accountability: People Management
- Responsible for driving own Performance
Development, collating relevant documentation, preparing for and arranging
reviews.
- By utilizing skills matrix, identify training
and development requirements, formulating own plan to be agreed with team
leader. Responsible for ensuring own plan is completed within agreed
timescales.
- Undertake all necessary training in order to
perform the role to the required standards, including gaining
accreditation where appropriate.
- Demonstrated experience in personnel
management
Accountability: Control
- Ensure that all activities and duties are
carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise
Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy
Standards.
- Understand and manage risks and risk events
(incidents) relevant to the role.
Competencies:
- Deciding and initiating action
- Learning and researching
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Relating and networking
- Adapting and responding to change
- Persuading and influencing
- Creating and innovating
Education and Experience Required
- B-degree, Commerce or a relevant banking or
business degree or an Matric equivalent qualification or High Level
diploma
- PMP qualification or Project Management
certification
- Strong familiarity with project management
software - MUST be able to demonstrate competency with MS Project 2010+
- Degree level education in an analytical
subject would be beneficial
- (5-8) years’ experience and exposure to the
Banking/ ICT Industry
- (5) years direct work experience in a project
management capacity, including all aspects of process development and
execution
- Displaying a thorough understanding of
technology strategic issues in the banking or financial services sector
- Good understanding of project disciplines
(Prince2, PMP)
- Good understanding of ITIL processes and
associated concepts.
- Strong customer liaison and relationship
management skills
- Excellent communication and presentation
experience;
- Must be able to work under pressure, take
clear ownership of issues and projects and drive to ensure a successful
closure for the customer, peers and IT Production;
- Financial management – budget preparation and
managing to budget;
- Working within a Global or Regional role
- Familiarity with ITIL-style management
procedures and mainstream project management styles a distinct advantage;
- Experience of financial services preferred;
How to Apply
Incase you believe you career objective match this exciting position, please forward your application and detailed c.v stating your current position, remuneration, contact details by 5pm on 29th February, 2016
e-mail: sheerlogictalentsourcing2@gmail.com
