About the position
Our company is looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of strategic regulatory, governance, risk, and compliance initiatives within a highly regulated banking environment. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional with strong financial services experience and a proven track record of delivering complex regulatory and change programmers.
Key Responsibilities
Regulatory & Compliance Programme Delivery
- Lead end-to-end delivery of regulatory and compliance-driven projects and programmes.
- Manage regulatory change initiatives arising from audit findings, compliance requirements, risk assessments, and legislative changes.
- Ensure alignment with regulatory frameworks including SARB, FSCA, Basel, AML, KYC, POPIA, Prudential Authority, and FirstRand Group standards.
- Develop and manage project plans, roadmaps, budgets, resource plans, and implementation schedules.
Governance & Risk Management
- Establish and maintain effective project governance structures.
- Identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate project, operational, compliance, and regulatory risks.
- Maintain risk registers, action logs, issue management processes, and compliance tracking mechanisms.
- Ensure adherence to Group Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) standards.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships with Compliance, Risk, Legal, Internal Audit, Technology, Operations, and Business stakeholders.
- Facilitate workshops, steering committees, governance forums, and executive reporting sessions.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure timely escalation of risks and key decisions.
Regulatory Change Management
- Interpret and coordinate responses to regulatory changes and compliance obligations.
- Drive impact assessments, policy updates, training initiatives, and process improvements.
- Ensure successful implementation and adoption of regulatory requirements across business units.
Reporting & Executive Communication
- Produce project status reports, governance packs, risk assessments, and executive dashboards.
- Provide regular updates to programme sponsors, executive management, and steering committees.
- Track project benefits, regulatory milestones, compliance deliverables, and overall programme progress.
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum 7 years' Project Management experience within Financial Services, Banking, or Regulatory environments.
- Proven experience delivering regulatory, governance, risk, compliance, or audit-related initiatives.
- Experience managing cross-functional projects involving Compliance, Risk, Legal, Technology, and Business stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of project governance, regulatory change management, and risk management practices.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Risk Management, Law, Information Technology, or a related field.
- PMP, PRINCE2, PMBOK, or equivalent Project Management certification.
- Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or similar certification advantageous.
- Compliance, Risk, Governance, or Financial Services certifications advantageous.
Desired Skills:
- SARB
- FSCA
- Basel
- AML
- KYC
- POPIA
- project management
