Project Planning and Initiation: Define project scope, goals, deliverables, and timelines in collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, providing regular updates and managing expectations.
Resource Allocation and Management: In collaboration with the line managers, identify, allocate, and manage resources (team members, budget, tools) to ensure the project’s successful delivery. These resources will form a cross-functional team to ensure project delivery.
Risk and Issue Management: In collaboration with the Bank’s control functions, proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues, ensuring minimal disruption to project progress.
Budget and Cost Management: In collaboration with the Bank’s Finance team, monitor project expenses and ensure delivery within the approved budget, while regularly reporting on financial performance.
Waterfall Project Execution: Create and manage detailed project plans, outlining each phase from requirements gathering to deployment, and monitor progress against timelines and milestones.
Agile Project Facilitation: Facilitate agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives, ensuring active participation and continuous improvement.
Change Management: Manage scope changes effectively by evaluating impacts on timelines, costs, and resources, and seek necessary approvals for adjustments.
Performance Tracking and Reporting: Track project performance through key metrics, reporting on progress, variances, and project health to stakeholders.
Compliance and Regulatory Adherence: Ensure all project activities adhere to internal policies, industry regulations, and compliance requirements, particularly in banking environments.
Team Leadership and Motivation: Lead and inspire cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities.
Vendor and Third-Party Management: Manage relationships and contracts with external vendors and service providers, ensuring timely and quality delivery of services or products.
Post-Implementation Review: Conduct project reviews and retrospectives to capture lessons learned and identify opportunities for future improvement