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City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Strategic direction setting, Team motivation and morale building (particularly during the last 2 years), Operational Risk Mgt and mitigation, Capability building incl. Recruitment, Learning & Development Planning, Performance Mgt etc, Account Management encapsulating senior stakeholder engagement and delivery management, Financial Management and budgetting processes, Sales support, On-the -ground solution design for the capital markets, Agile practices champion.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Delivering projects, successfully, in order to restore of a key client relationship with a large global bank through the delivery of a custom-built, business-critical, Capital Markets platform in record time.Management and leadership of a large team of multi-vendor and bank employeesdelivering the project end-to-end across all aspects of the SDLC. Ensuring achievementof regulatory milestones as well as key strategic objectives. Responsible for building theAppian (low-code) capability encompassing sourcing, training and ongoing support ofconsultants. Supporting the implementation of key accountabilities and feedbackprocesses in the business.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Managing end-to-end project delivery from solutioning, commercial and contractual aspects, resource allocation, approach building and planning, delivery, quality assurance and governance processes, and stage closure. Managing and leading medium to large teams comprised of consultants, business and external providers (max 35). Delivering highly complex projects and driving transformation in line with business’ strategic objectives. Responsible for delivery oversight of 30 consultants (4 projects simultaneously) at South Africa’s biggest Vehicle and Asset Financing Company. Achieved significantly efficiencies across managed engagements with less than 10% wasted hours and R40M savings for the client on last project.Key Skills Utilized: • Deep analytical skills to drive out meaningful analysis to support business decisions• Mulit-skilled delivery and exposure across numerous business and IT disciplines and domains• Understanding prevailing market conditions and their strategic application• Deep integration and operations experience across business spectrum including:o Financial and Management Accounting, Sales, Procurement, Client Acquisition, Operations and Collections• Delivered in line with PRINCE2 Waterfall and Agile methodologies• Quality assurance - Issue and Risk management• Cost monitoring, Time and Scope control• Management/stakeholder communications • Developing client relationships and Interacting with key stakeholders• Consistently achieved scorecard measures for revenue targets (+R10M) recruitment and retention targets, delivery targets (Customer Satisfaction >85%)• Ongoing development of consulting capability including recruitment, performance management, development and training material build.• Career facilitator to 4 people and leadership of the lead (senior consultant) cadre (14 people)• Delivery of innovative, effective, solutions based on ability to understand key drivers for business

Providing cross functional skills, serving the 3 largest mining companies globally and several South African parastatals – analysing business data, creating solutions to deliver on client business requirements, executing and managing full end-to-end project management cycles across multiple teams and external stakeholders. Delivered last project with 25 member team (11 onshore/14 offshore) at savings of 5%.Key Skills Utilized:• Strategic sourcing & Procurement cost reduction• Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio• Complex Process Design and optimisation• SME for master data integration, cleansing and ongoing IT data maintenance• Extensive migration exposure to different business environments (1000+ company codes converted/250+ LSMW’s built/20+ Geographies)Additional technical skills/exposure includes:• Accuity Banking Database for SAP – SWIFT.com• Defect management systems such as SMS, HPQC• Trained in ARIS process modeling• RiskMetrics, Microfit and SAS enterprise guide• uPerform training material development• SAP Solution Manager/MDM/Emptoris understanding [Detailed Project experience available on Request]

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance And Investment - Honours, First Class Degree

Activities and Societies: Golden Key society for top 10% of students Party for a Charity Chairman and founding member Majored in Finance.

Ieb Matriculation, Biology, Science, History, Maths, English And Afrikaans