Project Administrator
Electrum Payments, South Africa
Job Description
About Electrum:
Electrum is an exciting B2B tech company. We partner with some of South Africa’s biggest household names, enabling them to open up their customers’ access to payments and digital goods and services. We love that the projects we work on touch the lives of millions of South Africans every day, making a real difference.
We hire the best of the best and we offer great opportunities for both personal growth and career progression.
The Opportunity:
If you are organised, detailed oriented, and looking for an opportunity to work with experienced project managers on customer facing projects at large banks and retailers, then Electrum’s project administrator role will be perfect for you. Building long term relationships with internal teams and customers will be essential for the success of this role.
The project administrator will support project management activities helping to ensure that the delivery process runs efficiently.
Requirements
As a Project Administrator you will be responsible for the following:
- Assist in the planning, execution, and monitoring of projects.
- Collaborate with project managers to ensure project timelines and milestones are met.
- Track project progress and report on key metrics to relevant stakeholders.
- Create and maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, and meeting minutes.
- Generate regular reports on project performance and present findings to the project team and leadership.
- Facilitate communication within the project team, ensuring all stakeholders are informed of project updates and changes.
- Act as a point of contact for project-related queries, both internally and externally.
- Coordinate between multiple parties to accomplish project delivery objectives
- Build strong relationships with customers and third party providers as well as internally with sales , engineering, product and tech ops teams
- Grow your industry knowledge
- Contribute to the on-going growth and success of Electrum
- Relevant degree OR
- Experience in project administration or coordination
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to multitask and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Background in tech/information technology industry
- Prince 2, PMP or Agile training will be advantageous
- Financial Services/ Payment /Fintech industry experience
Benefits
We have created an high-performance culture where you can expect:
- Career growth - Delivering world-class financial services software products in a fast-paced company is not easy, and it takes an insane amount of effort. But in return for your effort you'll get hands-on experience working on products that are used by millions of people, and a high quality work experience that will accelerate your career.
- Transparency - We openly discuss strategy, finances, salaries and other major decisions.
- Autonomy - We know you'll be able to make good decisions if you have good information, and we trust you.
- Shared Vision - You'll be able to shape a vision you can believe in - on how to build the future of financial services.
- Work-life balance - You know when your brain has switched off for the day and you need to go for a hike or coffee shop with a view, but you also know when your team needs help to bring that strategic deliverable home. At Electrum you will be expected to know when you deserve that time out, and when you need to knuckle down and get the work done.
A good work-life balance is very important at Electrum. To help you manage your own time and energy, Electrum offers benefits such as:
- Onsite gym and shower facilities
- Daily cooked lunches and a stocked kitchen for the mid-day nibbles
- Team socialising, hikes, getaways, and dinners
We have created a safe, transparent environment where we know mistakes happen, and that’s okay. We even have a 3 step approach to dealing with them:
- Tell everyone about it
- Fix the mistake
- Tell everyone about it
You are responsible for your actions both the successes and the failures.
If this sounds like a role and place where you can spread your wings, please apply now.