Our client, a leading financial services and insurance group, is seeking a Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of finance and actuarial technology projects — on scope, on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards. Reporting to the Head: Centre IT, you will be accountable for planning, governance, financial control, risk management and stakeholder alignment across the project lifecycle, and for ensuring delivered solutions are adopted by the business and realise their business case benefits.
Key focus areas: integrated planning and delivery management, budget and vendor commercial management, risk, issue and dependency control, steering committee governance and reporting, and change management through to BAU handover.
Requirements
Benefits
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in IT or business project management
- 4+ years of experience in insurance or financial services
- Experience delivering finance transformation projects, including ERP implementations, finance data platforms, reporting, or process automation
- Experience managing multi-million rand budgets, business cases, and benefits realization
- Strong vendor and contract management experience, including SOWs and third-party delivery oversight
- Experience managing multi-workstream projects with cross-system dependencies
- Working understanding of business analysis, architecture, integration, data migration, and testing
- Experience facilitating executive-level governance forums
- Strong negotiation, analytical, and communication skills
- Proficiency with MS Project or equivalent, Jira, Confluence, Visio, and MS Office
- Experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies
- Understanding of finance and actuarial processes, accounting principles, and reporting standards
What We Do
Centrax Digital is a technology consulting and digital engineering firm that delivers AI consulting, Zoho implementation, and cloud solutions.
