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Warfield, GB

• ■ An established retail bank which has acquired Grindrod Bank and Ubank thus opening up an opportunity to expand its products and services into the business banking sector comprised of SME’s and trader segments ■.
• Leading the creation of a new business transactional account integrated to new internet banking capability, aligned to all available payment rails
• Partnering with development team – specification to testing and implementation
• Collaborating with marketing for creation of marketing collateral and IVR scripting
• Working closely with business analysts (BA) to document processes and standardise operating procedures
• Responsible for sourcing and managing all vendors such as card manufacturer and card delivery supplier■ Achievements

South Africa

• ■ BankServe is a central payments clearing house which processes & manages all banking transactions throughout South Africa
• Managed an enterprise data management programme with 4 streams, focused on cloud migration, advanced analytics, data governance and tactical solutions for current business issues and risks■ Leadership
• Personally sourced team of 2 scrum masters and 2 business analysts, further increasing the team once the programme gained momentum
• Implemented a dynamic systems development method (DSDM) agile approach to the programme
• Conducted regular stakeholder meetings and updates, deployed tasks, encouraged opinions and contribution
• Controlled resource capacity and associated costs

South Africa

• ■ Hired to project manage a debit order management programme & upgrade core banking system with new in-house PMO structure, this evolved into creating and leading the PMO■ Team Management
• Sourced, interviewed, onboarded own team - business analysts, project managers, test manager and quality assurance team
• Deployed tasks and provided direction, motivation and leadership
• Conducted regular project status meetings, communicated updates to stakeholders■
• Programme Management
• Selected methodology and created the PMO charter (initiation document) for Exco approval and signoff

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• ■ Software development org specialising in financial, telecommunications and insurance sector (turnkey projects), delivering SaaS solutions
• Initially employed as a business analyst, promoted to project manager and retained several BA duties and responsibilities, prompted to Account Executive, member executive committee and finally to shareholder
• Managed several projects simultaneously - defined project goals, plans, budget, objectives and scope, identified key stakeholders and defined their responsibilities, established and managed project teams
• Led multiple teams consisting of diverse skillsets such as system architecture, developers, business analysts, testers, comprised of own and customer’s team members both local and international
• Completed formal project closures, including handover of deliverables, evaluated project successes against defined objectives, lessons learnt and benefit realisation reporting
• Filled an account executive role in addition to PM/BA role, responsible for planning and negotiation with customers, responses to requests for proposals, formulation of fixed cost and/or time and material proposals■.

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