Company Description

Standard Bank Offshore is the offshore arm of the Standard Bank Group, a leading Africa focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage. Our international Banking, Lending, Investment, Fiduciary and Wealth Management services   offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals.

Our clients range from individuals to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa and SBO is perfectly positioned to support the growth of our organisation from our office in the Isle of Man, Jersey, London, Mauritius and South Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To enable the achievement of business value by providing Agile Programme Management Office (APMO) input and guidance across all Standard Bank Group Technology value streams, driving continuous Lean Portfolio Management improvements. To establish and mature the key Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) collaborations of Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations, and Lean Governance

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification: 

Post Graduate Degree in Information TechnologyPost Graduate Degree in Business Commerce

Experience Required :

5 - 7 years experience in TechnologyPrior experience in working in a SAFe Program/ Value Stream Layer, demonstrating experience in managing multiple Scrum teams. Proven experience in working under tight deadlines in a project environment. Flexibility to facilitate requests coming from various sources simultaneously and ability to effectively interface with a wide variety of people at all level. Must demonstrate service and team orientationPrior experience working in large projects identifying cross functional risks and facilitating operational decision making to develop plans that can be successfully executed with the resources availableSignificant experience in integrated planning. Knowledge of Agile and Lean frameworks, methods and practices and experience in being a catalyst for organisational change. Experience working in a multi-vendor and outsourced IT environment

Key Outputs :

Continuously evaluate time and cost and guide and coach the delivery teams to be committed to their schedulesCreate and maintain the overall risk profile, assess and manage portfolio level risks, and drive out mitigating actions to de-risk and promote successful delivery of projects in countryFacilitate alignment dependencies between the project team and third parties, release managersFacilitate the efficient production of automated reports using data in the standard toolset and highlighting exception reports to the relevant stakeholdersIdentify potential changes / improvements for the way standard APMO tools are being used; prioritise and implement improvements

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

Articulating InformationChallenging IdeasConvincing PeopleEmpowering IndividualsEstablishing RapportExploring PossibilitiesMaking DecisionsProviding InsightsPursuing GoalsResolving ConflictShowing ComposureThinking Positively

Technical Competencies:

Business Process ImprovementProject Management (Project Mgmt)Stakeholder Management (IT)