Project Team Lead at First Bank of Nigeria Limited Full Time

Job Title: Project Team Lead

Job Identification: 379
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time

Job Objective(s)

• Lead the day to day execution of a project while guiding and developing individual team members.
• Make important contributions to the analysis, design, and implementation of business performance approaches, developing tailor-made solutions and working closely with internal project stakeholders to ensure positive impact and sustainable results
• To be first point of contact, and ensure that Corporate Transformation interactions and collaborations with our internal customers are strong, productive and enduring.

Duties & Responsibilities

• To develop work plans and manage multiple project work streams to support the implementation of strategic objectives, within budget and within the agreed timelines.
• Identify and validate key business requirements for assigned workstreams
• Estimate the resources (human, financial and technical) needed to achieve goals.
• Analyze business data to assess situations, assigning tasks to team members, and problem-solving when issues arise.
• Ensure adequate documentation and record keeping for project activities
• Document standard processes to ensure consistency in execution in line with agreed timelines
• Develop a Business Readiness and Change Management Plan to disseminate information to all stakeholders throughout the Project life cycle for assigned work streams
• Effectively communicate project expectations to all stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion
• Provide solutions, improvements and take corrective action on challenges that may arise
• Identify and manage dependencies and critical path.
• Ensuring that required approvals are obtained and that adequate documentation is maintained for all project expenditures
• Helping solve end-user problems and managing financial aspects of contracts
• Ensuring contract terms and conditions are met and that contracts are carried out according to agreed terms
• Assist the engagement team in analyzing engagement data to identify incorrect coding, excessive time and expense items
• Monitor and track project milestones and deliverables, and provide reports on a periodic basis.
• Proactively manage changes in assigned Project scope, identify potential crisis, risks, devise contingency plans to provide solutions and take corrective action.
• Develop presentations, reports and provide briefings on assigned tasks
• Provide engagement management support to assigned Project sponsors, including project set-up, managing key performance indicators, and monitoring investment

Qualities:

• Ability to manage relationships with internal and external customers
• Ability to make objective and well-informed decisions; perceive the impact and implication of decisions
• Ability to show flexibility – open to change and adapt behavior or work methods in response to new information or unexpected obstacles
• Ability to implement best practices and tools for Project execution and management
• Ability to efficiently conduct analysis and produce high quality insights
• Ability to ensure full adoption and sustainability of project initiatives
• Proficient in MS Office and CRM/project management software
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
• Solid functional knowledge, including but not limited to the Bank’s key transformation pillars and capabilities which include Customer & Innovation, Operations Improvement, Organization and People and Process and Enterprise IT
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated leadership ability in a team environment
• Initiative taker, eager to break new ground, create opportunities for others
• Willingness to take personal risks – as seen through leadership roles – in work environment and extracurricular activities
• Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Strong time management and organizational skills, detail oriented with the ability to work on multiple concurrent assignments
• Ability to be proactive in day-to-day interactions, formulate solutions to problems and work in a fast-paced environment; travel may be required.

Job Requirements
Education:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree, with a minimum grade of 2.2
• Project Management certification will be an added advantage

Experience:

• Minimum of five years of banking experience, covering a range of functional areas
• Experience with managing transformation, change management or other strategic projects
• Experience with Program Management Office or Project Management Office desirable
• Supervisory or leadership experience.

Application Closing Date
15th February, 2023.