Project Controller

Purpose

The Project Controller supports the ICT Project Manager and the ICT PMO in planning, tracking, controlling and reporting on the SAP project(s) and initiatives within TNPA. The role maintains project schedules, budgets, financials and project artefacts, and ensures that project governance and reporting standards are consistently applied.

The incumbent provides the control and administrative backbone of project delivery – keeping plans, costs, risks, issues and change requests accurate and up to date so that management has reliable information for decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project schedules / plans and track progress against agreed milestones and deliverables.
• Track and report on project financials – budgets, commitments, actuals and forecasts – and support cost control against the agreed plans and frequencies.
• Maintain the project registers for risks, issues, actions, dependencies and change requests, and follow up on mitigation and resolution actions.
• Ensure that project artefacts are documented completely and accurately and that the central project repository is kept up to date.
• Prepare project status reports, dashboards and packs for the Project Manager, PMO, steering committees and governance forums.
• Coordinate project meetings, capture and distribute minutes, and track resulting actions to closure.
• Support resource tracking, timesheet consolidation and invoicing / milestone verification in line with the contract.
• Support adherence to the adopted project methodology and quality-control standards throughout the project lifecycle.
• Assist the Project Manager with operational-readiness tracking and management of interdependencies across projects.

Position Challenges

• Maintaining accurate, timely project information across multiple concurrent SAP work-streams.
• Reconciling financial and schedule data from several sources into a single reliable view.
• Enforcing project-artefact and governance discipline across delivery teams.

Decision Making

• Determine the format and cadence of project controls, registers and reporting within PMO standards.
• Flag schedule, cost and scope variances and recommend corrective attention to the Project Manager.
• Validate the completeness and accuracy of project artefacts against governance requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• National Diploma / Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Business or a related discipline (NQF Level 6–7).
• Project-management / project-controls certification (e.g. CAPM, PRINCE2 Foundation) is advantageous.
• 3–5 years’ project-controls / project-administration experience, preferably on ICT or SAP projects.

Skills Required

• Strong command of project-scheduling and controls tools (e.g. MS Project) and MS Excel.
• Understanding of project cost management, earned-value concepts and financial tracking.
• Knowledge of project-governance frameworks and both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong written and oral communication and stakeholder-coordination skills.

How to apply — This position is immediate. If interested, please send your CV to HR@africaone-consulting.com as soon as possible for consideration and the next steps. Kindly indicate the role applied for in the subject line.

Pay: R30 000,00 - R150 000,00 per month

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal 4004