Christine Yatera
Dar es Salaam
Summary
My vision is on Project Management with a focus in banking and digitalization of financial services, physical channels and vendor management.
Highly organized professional with extensive experience in project management, driving initiatives to successful completion. Known for fostering team collaboration and delivering results. Renowned for adaptability and problem-solving skills, ensuring seamless project execution and stakeholder satisfaction.
Experienced project management professional with strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Skilled in strategic planning, risk management, and stakeholder communication. Known for reliability and adaptability in dynamic environments. Prepared to drive impactful outcomes and lead projects to success.
Talented Senior Project Manager with excellent client oversight and issue resolution talents. Highly effective overseeing multiple tasks and employees at once. Dedicated to detail-oriented leadership and goal-oriented planning.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Manager, Projects
NCBA BANK TANZANIA
04.2024 - Current
- Control Project Capex spend by ensuring that all Capex spend is budgeted for and authorized accordingly. Ascertain that project budgets are tracked weekly and payments are performed efficiently.
- Ensure adherence to and application of established policies, processes, and tools to achieve optimal efficiency, compliance and cost containment. Monitoring compliance with Project management standards, policies and procedures to drive maturity in project management
- Establish and manage a benefits realization framework to be adopted across the group to ensure that envisioned benefits are clearly tabulated and measured.
- Establish and manage a consistent process and framework for monitoring, controlling and reporting on project deliverables. Production of dashboards and reports that provide an enterprise wide view of project portfolios and resource utilization.
- Build and maintain positive working relationships with vendors and all levels of staff; serve as resource for technical or business expertise and advice on strategic priorities and projects
- Stay up to date with latest industrial standards and soft skills relevant to project management.
Project Manager
STANBIC BANK TANZANIA (a member of Standard Bank Group)
07.2010 - 04.2024
- To ensure that all project-related documents are produced in a timely fashion, kept up to date and are made accessible to project teams and Bank employees as appropriate.
- Assist in the coordination of project related administrative and financial matters.
- Assist in preparing necessary documents necessary for all procurement processes and contract issuing.
- Provide support to administrative and logistical arrangements for meetings, workshops and trainings related to the Projects
- To assist with task breakdown, risk assessment, project planning for each project before starts, and assist (or take the lead as appropriate) in monitoring and controlling during the project lifecycle
- Budget estimates, control and monitoring to ensure all projects are within budget allocated, in case of variations then assist in getting out of budget estimations and approvals.
- Prepare financial reports and ensure supporting documents like original invoices and EFD receipts are submitted to finance and follow up on vendors payments before project closure.
- To manage and mobilize all contractors within a project
- To maintain administrative records and ensure all office supplies are available and well maintained.
- Assist in writing and presenting reports, working papers, proposals, and related documents associated with development, management, documentation and evaluation of various projects
Cargo Agent-Operations Department
SWISSPORT TANZANIA LTD
07.2008 - 10.2008
- Checking of status of shipment for all customers
- Uploading manifest through ASYCUDA SYSTEM.
- Proof of delivery of all customers consignments.
- Creating new flight for manifest corrections.
- Follow up of vendors invoices and payments.
Credit Officer
BRAC FOUNDATION
07.2008 - 10.2008
- Customer survey
- Preparing loan proposal
- Financial business analysis which included passing through income expenditure records of the entrepreneurs.
- Loan disbursement
- Follow up of loan instalment collections.
Education
Master of Project Management -
University of Tanzania
Dar Es Salaam Tanzania11.2021
Procurement and Supplies Professional Stage I & II -
Procurement And Supplies Professional And Technicians Board
Dar Es Salaam01.2012
Post Graduate Diploma - Procurement and Supplies Management
College of Business Education (CBE)
Dar Es Salaam01.2008
Advanced Diploma - Business Administration
College of Business Education (CBE)
Dar Es Salaam01.2004
Certificate of Secondary Education -
Kibaha Day Secondary School
Dar Es Salaaam01.2001
Skills
- Project planning
- Scope management
- Client relationship management
- Project plan development
- Cross-functional communication
- Agile methodology
- Financial administration
- Requirements gathering
- Documentation management
- Multi-project management
- Project management
- Team leadership
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Budget control
- Excellent communication
- Team collaboration
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Attention to detail
- Time management
- Documentation and reporting
- Stakeholder relations
- Agile methodologies
Certification
PRINCE2 Foundation Certificate - Final Stage
PERSONAL DETAILS
Fluent English and Swahili
References
- Mboka, Francis, Senior Manager, Core Banking Applications, Mboka.Francis@crdbbank.co.tz, +255682018420, CRDB Bank Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, P. O. Box 72647
- Geofrey, Kimario, Payments Manager, geofrey.kimario@ncbagroup.co.tz, +255699582400, NCBA Bank, Dar es salaam, P. O. Box
- Sheila, Kombe, Project Manager, Sheila.kombe@stanbic.co.tz, +255769005783, Stanbic Bank, Dar es salaam, P.O. Box 72647
Training
- Supplier relationship management and its ethical implications done by Procurement supplies professional and technician board.
- Project Management Fundamentals undertaken by Stanbic bank
- Managing Projects Techniques undertaken by Stanbic Bank
- Vendor Management training provided by Procurement supplies professional and technician board.
- SAP training undertaken at Stanbic Bank
- Customer Experience training undertaken at Stanbic Bank
- Fraud awareness training undertaken at Stanbic Bank
- Risk and Compliance training undertaken at Stanbic Bank
- OPS control and risk management
- Anti-Money Laundering intermediate
Timeline
Senior Manager, Projects
NCBA BANK TANZANIA
04.2024 - Current
Project Manager
STANBIC BANK TANZANIA (a member of Standard Bank Group)
07.2010 - 04.2024
Cargo Agent-Operations Department
SWISSPORT TANZANIA LTD
07.2008 - 10.2008
Credit Officer
BRAC FOUNDATION
07.2008 - 10.2008
Master of Project Management -
University of Tanzania
Procurement and Supplies Professional Stage I & II -
Procurement And Supplies Professional And Technicians Board
Post Graduate Diploma - Procurement and Supplies Management
College of Business Education (CBE)
Advanced Diploma - Business Administration
College of Business Education (CBE)
Certificate of Secondary Education -
Kibaha Day Secondary School
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