Project Manager Job at Seerbit

Seerbit is a fast growing Financial Technology company that seeks to bridge the gaps identified in Africa’s payment ecosystem, with presence in over 10 African countries and aggressively expanding our footprint in Africa.

We are on a mission to shape the future of commerce not just in Africa but across the globe. Our results driven environment enables us to build better products, grow faster and empower everyone on our team to impact our business and our mission to close the payment gaps in Africa. Join us to develop and build Africa’s most trusted payment gateway that help merchants do business with ease, with style, and without borders!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Project Manager (Financial Technology)

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Reports To: CEO

Responsibilities
What you will do:

• Manage and track project activities and ensure they are completed within target dates, ensure project documents are clear and concise, manage to the project plan and ensure all project stakeholders adhere to project expectations.
• Manage concurrent projects while developing timelines with key milestones, delivery and proper cataloging of assets.
• Tracks project statuses and manages project issues and risks, to include evaluation of progress/quality from both an "ontime" and "onbudget" perspective, while developing action plans to address gaps/risks throughout project life cycle to ensure delivery.
• Drive the implementation of an Agile delivery model, including providing training and support to the wider team.
• Coordinate daily creative Scrums with all necessary stakeholders, consolidating feedback & ensuring the team knows next steps and assign action items.
• Implement ways to streamline workflow and optimize process to identify best practices.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders across the company including Product Development, Operations, Marketing, and Finance.
• Work with leadership to develop operations for scale that work for optimizing both volume and creative output in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Refine internal processes between departments and develop new systems where appropriate.
• Ensure teams are tracking toward milestones, within budget and upholding brand integrity in their decisions.
• Contribute to solutions options and supports business partner decisionmaking to minimize the amount of project investment divergence from target outcomes.
• Implement a good communications strategy within the project to ensure that all stakeholders are regularly briefed.
• Determine resource allocation and prioritization.
• Deliver projects to agreed success criteria and manage change effectively.
• Oversee teams working on client engagements and manage internal resources.
• Produce highquality project documents.
• Convert highlevel ideas into projects ensuring full project documentation.
• Provide mentoring and support to trainee project managers to facilitate their development.

Requirements

• Minimum of First Degree in related field. Postgraduate degree and certifications in Project Management is an added advantage.
• Must have at least 5 years of experience
• 57 years of working experience as a Project Manager, with end-to-end responsibility for delivery in the FinTech Industry.
• Proven track record of managing complex and senior stakeholder interactions.
• Thorough understanding of the project management process throughout the lifecycle, and the ability to identify issues and take corrective action.
• Experience working with formal Project Methodologies.
• Strong project scoping and integration skills with direct experience in the design and implementation of major technical projects.
• Ability to engage, influence and motivate a variety of stakeholders to ensure project success.
• Ability to manage the transition and transformation of business process reengineering through the Agile project lifecycle management.
• Resiliency to adopt and work in a fast paced – startup environment.
• Experience in data analytics projects is desirable.
• Excellent communication skills, team player and collaborator.
• Demonstrable experience of managing multiple projects at one time of varying size, complexity, value and urgency.
• Must be tenacious and self motivated with the ability to encourage others and drive issues to a resolution.
• Proven ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Demonstrable time management skills.
• Working knowledge and proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated experience setting up/optimizing processes aimed at improving workflow.

What we need:

• Our ideal candidate for this role must be a skilled, resourceful and experienced project manager,
• Must be a strong and confident communicator and a proactive individual with a willingness to working in a fastpaced environment,
• Must be good in identifying and mitigate risks, and also good in planning and overseeing projects delivering project on time within budget and with desired outcome aligned to objectives.

Benefits

• Family medical cover
• Flexible work schedule
• Profit share
• Stock option
• Learning & development opportunity