Project Controller Jobs in South Africa at MultiChoice

  Job Title : Project Controller

Company MultiChoice
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Randburg
Job Type Permanent
Equity Status African, Coloured and Indian candidates
Number of Positions 1
Special Requirements

Context Internal and External factors which influence the work environment, taking future conditions and strategic requirements into account:

•Participative project-team environment
•Quality and service environment
•Project management as emerging discipline and career
Customers Internal and External individuals or groups to whom products, services, programs and information must be provided:

•MultiChoice General Mnagers
•MultiChoice Dpartmental Mnagers
•Programme and Project Managers
Outputs - Educate and advise the team on project governance i.e. project management policies, standards, methodologies and processes across all phases of the respective projects (includes describing the processes’ purpose, utilising scheduling and costing tools, determining who is responsible for deliverables, and detailing approval procedures)

- Facilitate/oversee project planning/control sessions

- Measure and monitor project performance

- Manage project progress and ensure that projects are delivered at appropriate timelines

Track and analyse costs: working with available accounting and project management software tools to track all expenditure, including labour hours, equipment usage, procured resources.

- Ensure that issues, risk and change control requests are identified, analysed and estimated, escalate, as necessary extraordinary risk impacts and/or issues to the appropriate levels of management for disposition, and are documented/tracked in the project’s collaboration database.

- In line with corporate governance standards, document and deliver status information yielded from earned value reports and presentation material for executive management this also includes performing the analysis and forecast and makes recommendations for the various project iniiatives
Education & Experience •Project Management diploma or PMP or equivalent

•At least 3-5 years related experience as a Subject Matter Expert in all aspects of project control (including hands-on support/mentoring to the project management community as needed/requested, project planning/scheduling, cost/variance analysis, project setup, project performance measuring and monitoring etc)
Competencies Functional:

•Project governance;
•Project administration;
•Project management tools, techniques and processes;
•Project planning and scheduling;
•MS Project & Sharepoint tool – administration and configuration;
•Facilitation tools and techniques;
•MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)


Skills:

•Strong written & verbal communication skills;
•Strong attention to detail;
•Interpersonal skills;
•Demonstrated analytical ability (Problem Solving);
•Facilitation skills;
•Planning and organising skills;
•Demonstrated ability to handle multiple concurrent assignments.

Personal Qualities:

•Able to work independently or in a team;
•Detail orientated;
•Service orientated;
•Able to work under pressure;
•Assertive;
•Self-confident;
•Flexible
Equity Statement
We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally. It is company policy to promote from within wherever possible. Therefore, please be aware that internal applicants will be considered first before reviewing external applicants, provided that this supports achievement of our Employment Equity goals.

To Apply:

http://careers.multichoice.co.za/candidateapp/Job.aspx?Page=ViewJob&JobRef=160812-1¶ms=pN%2f33%2b9Chi6dhdq3HraUqoB8%2b83a9AMRuWBSNpA9xFVc035HCnEIeQGBaF8YhpTtFS5knMDG31nViTg8nKRcOfaEfmOtg1K1%2b7zWWK0uJswNx%2fnvRad1z0tKQqNsldg4

Deadline: 31st August 2012