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Project Manager
Ozow
Posted 4 months agoCape Town, South Africa
Location
Cape Town, South Africa
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Operations
Job Description
Meet Ozow
Ozow is a leading fintech company that's redefining digital payments in South Africa and beyond. We're dedicated to making payments more accessible, secure, and convenient for both businesses and consumers. As a fast-growing player in the financial technology sector, Ozow fosters a culture of innovation, diversity, and inclusivity. We believe in pushing the boundaries of what's possible and are committed to making a positive impact on the world through our payment solutions.
In this role, you’ll partner with several of our core business teams to translate complex ideas into structured, actionable plans. You’ll ensure projects are clearly scoped, broken down into well-defined tasks, and delivered on time, within budget, and to a quality standard that raises the bar across the business.
As a Project Manager, you’ll be the connective tissue between key business stakeholders and the teams executing the work. You’ll also play a critical role in bridging operational needs with product and technical priorities — creating a smooth, structured, and proactive communication flow across departments.
Break down complex business problems and ideas into clear project scopes, deliverables, timelines, and success measures.
You eagerly embrace change, absorb cross-functional skills, and connect ideas across disciplines to drive fresh thinking and innovation.
Ability to initiate, develop, maintain and leverage outstanding relationships to influence a wide network, both inside and outside the company.
A trailblazer who steps up, takes charge, and creates meaningful impact—those driven by performance and purpose to lead from the front and make a real difference every day.
You thrive in collaboration, embrace inclusion, and bring a genuine curiosity for global cultures—valuing collective success over individual credit.
You challenge norms, champion innovation, and constantly seek growth—for themselves, their team, and the solutions they build.
You are a decisive doer—those who take initiative, follow through with confidence, and ensure resul
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Requirements
- 4-6 years’ experience as a Project Manager in a Technology or FinTech environment
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
- A qualification in Project Management (PMP, Prince2, Agile Scrum/Kanban) is advantageous
- Experience working closely with technical/development teams and Scrum Masters
- Your skills and competencies
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Responsibilities
- Project Planning & Scoping
- Conduct structured analysis to inform project assumptions, risks, and dependencies.
- Facilitate scoping sessions with stakeholders to ensure alignment on objectives and expected outcomes.
- Build detailed project plans that balance strategic intent with operational practicality.
- Execution & Delivery Management
- Track progress against key milestones, proactively identifying slippage, bottlenecks, or risks.
- Drive disciplined follow-through on priorities and commitments, ensuring all actions are completed and communicated.
- Maintain a high-quality audit trail of decisions, updates, and changes to ensure clarity and accountability.
- Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Ensure all stakeholders receive timely, concise, and accurate updates on project status, risks, and next steps.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, helping teams stay aligned on the bigger picture while managing the detail.
- Navigate competing priorities and constraints with strong communication, diplomacy, and judgment.
- Risk, Issue & Change Management
- Identify risks early using structured analysis and data-driven assessment.
- Develop mitigation strategies and escalate critical issues with recommended actions.
- Manage change control processes, ensuring all scope or timeline adjustments are understood, documented, and approved.
- Anticipate downstream impacts of decisions and keep teams aligned as variables shift.
- Process Development & Continuous Improvement
- Establish project management standards, templates, and operational rhythms for a growing PM function.
- Create structured frameworks for plann
- Own the end-to-end delivery of multiple cross-functional projects, ensuring they land on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
- Serve as the central coordination point between business leaders, product teams, technical teams, and other delivery units.
- Demonstrate strategic foresight, sound judgement, and the ability to make confident decisions under uncertainty, always working toward the best possible outcomes.
Benefits
- Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks
- Monthly team connects
- On-site Barista
- Birthday Leave
- Medical aid subsidy
- Group Risk Insurance
- Generous paid annual leave
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Mentorship programme
- Quarterly team building
- Community initiatives
- Access to cutting edge technology - Ozow Tech Stack
- Our Employee Value Proposition
- Compliance
