Program Manager – Enterprise Risk Management (ERP / Banking / Oracle / SAP) – Nigeria

Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description:

The ideal candidate for this role would currently be providing program management expertise at a Senior Management or Director Level with extensive system implementation experience. You should be working within the Corporate Transformation/ Enterprise PMO with deep Banking and Financial Services experience.

Responsibilities:

Handle responsibility and decision authority focus comprehensively on plan, build, deliver, run, status and budget tracking/responsibility of these projects (end to end development and deployment)

Handle direct responsibility for a highly-skilled Project Management team (five or more direct reports /ten or more contractors) including strategy, deliverables management, cost and budget, team/people/skill development, performance review and target setting/achievement, overseeing resource assignments.

Project Management interface between the business, Orion and 3rd Parties.

Establish and oversee effective issue resolution, change control, and risk management processes.

Maintain project plan (and phase gate reviews) and report semi-weekly status dashboards at project, Operations Committee, Key Stakeholders, and Executive Steering Committee levels.

Manage compilation of schedule, status, and metric updates at project and team levels; report appropriately to all levels of governance including executive.

Lead evaluation of go/no-go criteria for technical release and business cutover.

Oversee implementation of method and tools which enable each phase.

Negotiate scope, schedule, and funding with external IT and business partners.

Establish common goals across multiple teams, and define useful metrics and reporting to track team performance.

Requirements: Qualification and Skill

Bachelor’s degree in area of specialty

In addition – Six Sigma, PMP Certifications, etc is highly advantageous

Additional professional qualifications related to Accounting, Finance, Banking, Risk will be advantageous

7 – 10+ years of overall experience in the field or in a related area

4 – 6 Years of this experience would have been gained working with a System Integrator (Accenture, Big 4, or other Independent SI) or the Consulting Business of an OEM – Oracle, SAP, IBM, Microsoft

Must have successfully managed a minimum of 3 full lifecycle Oracle EBS R12 implementation projects

Experience planning and executing detailed activities related to business requirements development; Conference Room Pilot (CRP) testing cycles, system integration testing, end user training and detailed cut-over planning

Experience with finance-impacting systems program implementations (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle).

Lise Kotze

Senior Recruitment Consultant

CA Finance

If you wish to apply for the position please send your CV to Lise Kotze at lkotze@caglobalint.com 

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