AXIAN Digibank & Fintech is recruiting a PMO Transformation Manager. The company invites qualified candidates to grow with its team and contribute to major transformation and governance initiatives across its operations.

This opportunity is open to both women and men.

Position

Job title: PMO Transformation Manager

Organization: AXIAN Digibank & Fintech

Gender: Woman or Man

Duty stations

The role may be based in any of the following locations:

• Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
• Antananarivo, Madagascar
• Lomé, Togo
• Dakar, Senegal
• Dubai

Required education

Applicants should have an advanced degree equivalent to 5 years of post-secondary education in one of the following fields:

• Business school
• Engineering school
• Equivalent university program

Required experience

Applicants should have proven experience of more than 5 years in project or program management, or in a PMO/transformation role.

Experience in the following sectors is preferred:

• Banking
• Finance
• Consulting

Your profile

The ideal candidate should have the following skills and competencies:

• Proficiency in portfolio management and project governance methods and tools.
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to produce decision memos, executive briefings, structured reports, and management presentations in French and English.
• Very strong proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.
• Good understanding of regulated environments, ideally in banking, fintech, mobile money, financial services, or financial transformation consulting.
• Attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to manage a high volume of work simultaneously.
• Ability to work independently and take a hands-on approach.

Your challenges

The PMO Transformation Manager will be responsible for supporting and driving key transformation initiatives. Main responsibilities include:

• Manage the project portfolio, define scope, set milestones, plan work, and set priorities with management.
• Lead high-stakes cross-functional projects, including transformation, reorganization, and governance initiatives.
• Run project governance by preparing and chairing monthly decision committees and producing reporting materials.
• Build monitoring tools, including trackers, dashboards, and timelines, and follow up regularly.
• Prepare decisions for management by formalizing options, analyzing impacts, identifying bottlenecks, and giving recommendations.
• Keep a decision log by tracking decisions, dependencies, and commitments from committee meetings to ensure continuity.
• Watch risks and dependencies, alert stakeholders, escalate issues, and unblock problems.
• Standardize working methods by creating templates for business cases, decision memos, RACI matrices, and implementation plans.
• Enforce ownership discipline by assigning a sponsor and a business owner to each project to ensure transformation work moves from planning to operational teams permanently.
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• Manage the project portfolio, define scope, set milestones, plan work, and set priorities with management.
• Lead high-stakes cross-functional projects, including transformation, reorganization, and governance initiatives.
• Run project governance by preparing and chairing monthly decision committees and producing reporting materials.
• Build monitoring tools, including trackers, dashboards, and timelines, and follow up regularly.
• Prepare decisions for management by formalizing options, analyzing impacts, identifying bottlenecks, and giving recommendations.
• Keep a decision log by tracking decisions, dependencies, and commitments from committee meetings to ensure continuity.
• Watch risks and dependencies, alert stakeholders, escalate issues, and unblock problems.
• Standardize working methods by creating templates for business cases, decision memos, RACI matrices, and implementation plans.
• Enforce ownership discipline by assigning a sponsor and a business owner to each project to ensure transformation work moves from planning to operational teams permanently.
• Coordinate stakeholders across the group, worki

• Proficiency in portfolio management and project governance methods and tools.
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to produce decision memos, executive briefings, structured reports, and management presentations in French and English.
• Very strong proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.
• Good understanding of regulated environments, ideally in banking, fintech, mobile money, financial services, or financial transformation consulting.
• Attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to manage a high volume of work simultaneously.
• Ability to work independently and take a hands-on approach.

• Advanced degree equivalent to 5 years of post-secondary education in Business school, Engineering school, or an Equivalent university program.