Nokuthula Mathe
Midrand
Summary
Results-driven professional with extensive experience in SAP project management, delivering tailored solutions that align with specific business needs. Expertise in strategic planning and stakeholder engagement fosters strong collaboration and ensures successful project outcomes. Proven ability to optimize processes and implement efficient solutions, driving operational excellence and enhancing overall performance. Committed to leveraging skills to contribute to organizational success and facilitate continuous improvement initiatives.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
ERP SAP Project Manager
City of Johannesburg
04.2025 - 09.2025
- Lead end to end project delivery of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 implementation initiatives
- Provide end-to-end project management on ERP SAP Functional Projects
- Develop detailed project plans, timelines, budgets, and resource allocations.
- Collaborate with technical teams, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure successful solution deployment.
- Manage the migration of services and data to Microsoft Azure and M365 (e.g., email, files, infrastructure).
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, issue resolution, and status updates.
- Collaborate with internal teams to design, develop and implement ICT projects
- Evaluate, recommend, and implement technology solutions to support different clients for initiatives, including software, tools, and systems.
- Smart Maintenance on mobile applications built on SAP Plant Maintenance
- In-depth experience of large CRM systems and how they are best configured and exploited for arts organizations
- Manage Stakeholder engagements and Operational teams
- Develop a detailed project plan and monitor progress
- Collaborate with internal teams to design, develop and implement digital projects
- Understand the customer's requirements, business processes and solution landscape
- Be a trusted advisor for customers, by leading project works based on defined scope
- Create detail project plans and execute them
- Understand SAP project methodology and premium engagement’s services and adopt them to project
- Manage data imports, validations and training delivery
- Properly make reports and escalation to management or executive level
- Analyzing project requirements and preparing budgets and schedules.
- Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and act proactively to resolve issues
- Set up and Manage Go-Live communication and Change Management within teams
- Provide remote and on-site client support and training
- Ensure all Change Document and Governance documents are Updated
- Reasons for Leaving: contract ended
ERP SAP Project Manager
Seidor One
08.2024 - 03.2025
- Lead full lifecycle SAP ERP projects from initiation through deployment and post-go-live support using SAP Activate Methedology.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather business requirements and translate them into technical solutions within SAP.
- Develop detailed project plans including scope, timelines, resource allocation, and budget control.
- Manage internal teams and external vendors/consultants to ensure project deliverables meet quality and compliance standards.
- Drive change management initiatives to support process improvement and user adoption.
- Monitor project progress and proactively manage risks, issues, and changes in project scope.
- Prepare and present regular project status reports to senior leadership and steering committees.
- Ensure successful data migration, system integration, testing (SIT/UAT), and user training.
- Coordinate cutover planning and go-live support, followed by stabilization and continuous improvement phases.
- Reasons for Leaving: contract ended
Digital Project Manager
Telkom
12.2022 - 07.2023
- Developing detailed designs, plans, and monitoring progress as well as writing up reports.
- Provide end-to-end project management on SAP Projects
- Running the Production studio and Resource allocation to deliver projects
- Scope project requirements and prepare budget
- Manage Stakeholder engagements and Operational teams
- Develop a detailed project plan and monitor progress
- Collaborate with internal teams to design, develop and implement digital projects
- Deliver projects on time ensuring quality standards are met
- Develop support documentation including risk logs and requirement specifications
- Monitor and report on Google Analytics metrics
- Communicate with the team and ensure all members are on board with delegated tasks
- Analyzing project requirements and preparing budgets and schedules.
- Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and act proactively to resolve issues
- Set up and Manage Go-Live communication and Change Management within teams
- Ensure all Change Document and Governance document are Updated
- Reasons for leaving: Contract Ended
SAP Project Manager
Massmart
12.2021 - 11.2022
- Provide end-to-end project management on ERP SAP Functional Projects
- Continuously assessing working methods and processes and making recommendations for improvement
- Identifying and implementing KPIs and project milestones
- Required – from kick-off, through all reviews, to QA, go live, project reviews and case studies.
- Compile project plan and project charters as defined by client requirements.
- Establish clear ownership for project tasks by understanding the resource requirements and deliverables.
- Coordination of all internal and external resource activities to ensure delivery of the project as per the project timelines.
- Distribute the project plan – advising traffic, client service and creative of the milestones and reviews.
- Communicate progress, risks, expectations, timelines, milestones and other key project metrics to the team.
- Track and update project progress on the project management tool.
- Work with client service to ensure clients achieve an understanding of expectations, deliverables, dependencies, risks and progress throughout the production phase.
- Manage scope creep to ensure that projects are delivered on time, according to scope, budget and strategy expectations.
- Evaluate all key project deliverable through to the final product to ensure traceability of requirements, high quality and client approval.
- Reasons for leaving: Contract Ended
IT Project Manager
National Treasury
09.2020 - 11.2021
- Develop a detailed scope of work and project architecture based on the user journey, deliverables, milestones and dependencies.
- Independently manages end to end execution of IT projects, varying in size and complexity
- Provide support to the ICT department in managing all the different Business unit within National Treasury
- Prepare RFA detailing new Projects and activities per resource, deliverable and milestones
- Compile project plan and project charters as defined by client requirements.
- Required – from kick-off, through all reviews, to QA, go live, project reviews and case studies.
- Coordination of all internal and external resource activities to ensure delivery of the project as per the project timelines.
- Prepare Steerco/Board pack for Status Update and present to the Board
- Distribute the project plan – advising traffic, client service and creative of the milestones and reviews.
- Communicate progress, risks, expectations, timelines, milestones and other key project metrics to the team.
- Track and update project progress weekly to the PMO Manager.
- Work with client service to ensure clients achieve an understanding of expectations, deliverables, dependencies, risks and progress throughout the production phase.
- Manage scope creep to ensure that projects are delivered on time, according to scope, budget and strategy expectations.
- Obtain formal sign off on all project deliverables; this includes coordinating feedback and involvement from the account management team, creative department and the client.
- Create contingency plans with appropriate input from key team members and implement a revised plan, scope and budget if necessary, in a timely manner.
- Assures project legal documents are completed and signed (image rights, photo releases, model releases, etc.).
- Reasons for leaving: Contract Ended
Project Manager
League Digital
04.2019 - 09.2020
- Develop a detailed scope of work and project architecture based on the user journey, deliverables, milestones and dependencies.
- Independently manages end to end execution of digital projects, varying in size and complexity
- Validate the production brief through a comprehensive understanding of the project requirements, objectives and deadlines.
- Production plans must be comprehensive, detailing activities per resource, deliverable and milestones
- Required – from kick-off, through all reviews, to QA, go live, project reviews and case studies.
- Compile project plan and project charters as defined by client requirements.
- Establish clear ownership for project tasks by understanding the resource requirements and deliverables.
- Coordination of all internal and external resource activities to ensure delivery of the project as per the project timelines.
- Distribute the project plan – advising traffic, client service and creative of the milestones and reviews.
- Communicate progress, risks, expectations, timelines, milestones and other key project metrics to the team.
- Track and update project progress on the project management tool.
- Work with client service to ensure clients achieve an understanding of expectations, deliverables, dependencies, risks and progress throughout the production phase.
- Manage scope creep to ensure that projects are delivered on time, according to scope, budget and strategy expectations.
- Evaluate all key project deliverable through to the final product to ensure traceability of requirements, high quality and client approval.
- Obtain formal sign off on all project deliverables; this includes coordinating feedback and involvement from the account management team, creative department and the client.
- Reasons for leaving: Project Completed
Project Manager
South African Reserve Bank
11.2018 - 03.2019
- Develop a detailed scope of work and project architecture based on the user journey, deliverables, milestones and dependencies.
- Independently manages end to end execution of digital projects, varying in size and complexity
- Validate the production brief through a comprehensive understanding of the project requirements, objectives and deadlines.
- Production plans must be comprehensive, detailing activities per resource, deliverable and milestones
- Required – from kick-off, through all reviews, to QA, go live, project reviews and case studies.
- Compile project plan and project charters as defined by client requirements.
- Establish clear ownership for project tasks by understanding the resource requirements and deliverables.
- Coordination of all internal and external resource activities to ensure delivery of the project as per the project timelines.
- Distribute the project plan – advising traffic, client service and creative of the milestones and reviews.
- Communicate progress, risks, expectations, timelines, milestones and other key project metrics to the team.
- Track and update project progress on the project management tool.
- Work with client service to ensure clients achieve an understanding of expectations, deliverables, dependencies, risks and progress throughout the production phase.
- Manage scope creep to ensure that projects are delivered on time, according to scope, budget and strategy expectations.
- Evaluate all key project deliverable through to the final product to ensure traceability of requirements, high quality and client approval.
- Obtain formal sign off on all project deliverables; this includes coordinating feedback and involvement from the account management team, creative department and the client.
- Create contingency plans with appropriate input from key team members and implement a revised plan, scope and budget if necessary, in a timely manner.
- Assures project legal documents are completed and signed (image rights, photo releases, model releases, etc.).
- Reasons for leaving: Project Completed
Program Manager
ABSA Bank
06.2018 - 11.2018
- Program manage the Rest Of Africa RPA Processes ensuring the project plan, systems readiness, knowledge capture and transfer, process documentation, transition sign off, risk review and management coordinated in an effective manner
- Independently manages end to end execution of multiple RPA projects, varying in size and complexity
- Work closely with business functions as part of larger transformation underway and ensure alignment to timelines, cost and track mutual dependencies
- Develop and manage timeline and budget for annual deployment plans
- Undertake due diligence of local country business to assess as-is operations, to validate processes that are included in scope
- Ensure effective management of project plan and deliverables by identifying, resolving or escalating delays, risk and issues
- Provide clear and concise communication on project scope, vision, timelines and all project deliverables to automation project stakeholders
- Ensure effective governance of the RPA project lifecycle by adhering to the appropriate governance standards, policies and leading practices
- Implements engagement review and quality assurance procedures in accordance with our methodology to ensure profitable and successful execution of programs as measured by goals customer satisfaction
- Facilitating meetings including preparing agendas and coordinating schedules and documenting meeting minutes, following-up on action items, gathering, organizing and distributing project related documentation
- Manage timely and effectively escalations when needed to ensure successful transition
- Reasons for leaving: Project Completed
Senior Finance Project Manager
ABInBEV (SAB)
10.2017 - 05.2018
- Agree detailed transition plans with clear milestones and timelines, identifying interdependencies
- Project manage the Transition process ensuring the transition plan, timetable, systems readiness, knowledge capture and transfer, process documentation, transition sign off, risk review and management, service provider capability and IT systems requirements are coordinated in an effective manner
- Ensure effective project, stakeholder and change management tools and processes are in place and that these are used effectively throughout the transition
- Ensure a smooth handover of services to operations such that the transition has minimum impact on operating service levels throughout
- Manage business stakeholder governance during transitions cycles
- Establish a governance framework to effectively manage milestones, deliverables and performance of transition team.
- Ensure risks are appropriately managed and mitigating actions are in place to ensure continuity of service and minimum disruption to both existing operations and the processes to be transitioned
- Coordinate communications and stakeholder management to ensure successful delivery of the transition in line with the plan and reporting cadence of central NoCC team
- Ensure that a detailed knowledge transfer and training plan has been developed and monitor progress
- Establish review mechanism to include performance, compliance, risk and Transition milestone review
- Ensure that a robust monitoring process is implemented, and rigor is established to resolve process inefficiencies, manage any backlogs and capture lessons learned in the Go-live and stabilization phases
- Manage transition reporting and escalation with Global Solutions
- Manage timely and effectively escalations when needed to ensure successful transition
- Reasons for leaving: Project Completed
Project Manager
Bytes Document Solutions
08.2014 - 09.2016
- Set up and facilitate project kick off and scoping Sessions;
- Set up Scope of work (SOW)/Project Initiation document and project schedule and obtain sign off
- Manage project resources according to SOW and project schedule;
- Load and update assigned projects into PPO and update weekly.
- Provide constant feedback on Project Performance and Project delivery
- Identify, manage and communicate project risks, issues and overall project progress;
- Micro manage elements of the project
- Managing relationships with Stakeholders and Customers
- Work closely with business-units (Opco’s) to achieve their business goals and objectives
- Chair project progress meetings, record and distribute minutes of chaired meetings;
- Setup a project communication plan.
- Hands on work when required, including but not limited to:
- Facilitate delivery and installation of machines.
- Create asset list of devices and do audits thereof.
- Maintain a high level of Customer Service.
- Reasons for leaving: I am not stimulated hence I am looking for new challenges
Project Manager
Nashua Communications
08.2012 - 07.2014
- Attend meetings, take minutes and distribute to relevant stakeholders.
- Follow up on actions, decisions and tasks related during meetings
- Draft and distribute the relevant documentation of project meetings, sponsor panel meetings and adhoc meeting request prior to schedule meetings.
- Risk and Issue Log maintenance.
- Extract and provide project summary reporting in line with agreed deliverables to support the Project Manager in this activity.
- Draft project and task schedules in Microsoft Project, Resource planning and allocation, Task dependencies, Duration and estimation, Priorities tasks
- Facilitate necessary planning sessions to clarify project requirements and draft statement of work documentation for customer approval.
- Publish project schedules and relevant supporting documents on a daily basis on the Enterprise Project Management system (EPM)
- Provide EPM extract to the line managers using Microsoft Excel 2010.
- Monitor project tasks according schedules.
- Project Roll out for Nedbank, Mutual and Federal and Old Mutual.
- Reasons for leaving: Restructuring
Project Manager
Dimension Data
09.2008 - 07.2012
- Project Manager on Transactional projects
- Attend meetings, take minutes and distribute to relevant stakeholders.
- Follow up on actions, decisions and tasks related during meetings
- Draft and distribute the relevant documentation of project meetings, sponsor panel meetings and adhoc meeting request prior to schedule meetings.
- Risk and Issue Log maintenance.
- Extract and provide project summary reporting in line with agreed deliverables to support the Project Manager in this activity.
- Draft project and task schedules in Microsoft Project
- Resource planning and allocation
- Task dependencies
- Duration and estimation
- Priorities tasks
- Publish project schedules and relevant supporting documents on a daily basis on the Enterprise Project Management system (EPM)
- Provide EPM extract to the line managers using Microsoft Excel 2010.
- Reasons for leaving: Growth and New Challenges
End User Support Engineer
UCS Solutions
09.2006 - 08.2008
- Support the Clients on site and HEAT on incoming calls
- For Projects, perform end-user related tasks as required
- Pro-actively manage production environment eg: anti-virus and patch distribution and management
- Produce management information reporting as required
- To resolve calls within SLA
- Stay abreast of technological advances in the end-user space in order to provide customers with innovative solutions and expert knowledge
- Perform periodic knowledge transfer to first-level support staff
- Document and periodically review all processes and procedures
- Build positive relationship with client and partners
- Reasons for leaving: Retrenched
Technical Support Consultant
Lawyers Access Web
08.2005 - 07.2006
- Provide Telephonic Support Remotely
- Log calls on Maximizer
- Law Access Web
- Regibond
- Reginet
- Install Software
- Server EP
- Web EP
- Do support on Software Errors
- Installation of Software
- Configure Clients Path and Web versions
- Support on Regibond and Reginet
- Reasons for leaving: Growth, new challenges and I needed to focus into ICT.
Junior Support Engineer
Business Connexion
06.2004 - 07.2005
- Logging Calls on Remedy and Resolve for:
- Support Services
- CAIIS (Comparex Internals)
- Managed Services
- PQ Vector
- Providing Remote Support and 2nd Level Support
- Repair/Reporting of Unresolved Calls
- Reasons for leaving: Growth and new challenges
Web Developer
Department of Finance
06.2003 - 05.2004
- Updating Websites
- Managing Websites
- Programming in VB and MS access
- Developing Sites Using
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VB, VBScript, DHTML, ASP
- Macromedia Flash and Fireworks.
- MS access, Oracle and Sql Servers
- Creating and Updating Stored Procedures
- Design Tables and Views
- Creating links to related tables
- Exporting and importing data to and from an SQL tables and views
- Create logical and/or physical database models.
- Create estimates for work scope and create work plans.
- Troubleshooting, query optimization, performance tuning
- Reasons for leaving: I needed to relocate to Johannesburg and the position was an internship.
Education
National Senior Certificate -
Soshanguve High School
01.2000
PGDip - Project Management
Tshwane University Technology
01.2025
Bachelor’s Degree - Information Technology
Tshwane University Technology
01.2017
National Diploma - Information Technology
Tshwane University Technology
01.2003
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- MS Projects
- Enterprise Project Management
- Project Portfolio Office
- Jira
- Confluence
- Fluid
- SAP Business One
- SAP Mari
- SAP S4/Hana
Certification
- Effective Business Writing Skills – Maurice Kerrigan Africa (PTY) LTD
- Prince 2 Foundation and Practitioner – APMG (Pink Elephant)
- Certified Associate in Project Management – PM ideas
- ITIL V3 Foundation – FOSTER MELLIAR
- SAFE Scrum Master – Scaled Agile (PM ideas)
References
- Bytes Document Solutions, Teddy Mooketsi, PMO Manager, +27 78 019 5175 / 011 232 8204
- Absa Bank, Kabelo Sebigi / Lusanda Manthlana, Lead Technologist / RTA, 0726483353 / 0609805646
- Nashua Communications, Octavia Blose, HR Executive, 0827340502
- Dimension Data, Sabiena Gameldien, General Manager: Public Sector, 0736466546 / 0115754791
- National Treasury, Manas Maboka, Development Manager, 082 432 1238
- Massmart, Dieketseng Mofokeng, PMO Manager, 082 615 9732
Languages
English
Personal Information
- ID Number: 8206230292083
- Ethnicity: Black
- Health Status: Excellent
- ID Number: 8206230292083
- Date of Birth: 23 June 1982
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: South African
Skills And Technologies
- Microsoft Office Suite
- MS Projects
- Enterprise Project Management
- Project Portfolio Office
- Jira
- Confluence
- Fluid
- SAP Business One
- SAP Mari
- SAP S4/Hana
Timeline
ERP SAP Project Manager
City of Johannesburg
04.2025 - 09.2025
ERP SAP Project Manager
Seidor One
08.2024 - 03.2025
Digital Project Manager
Telkom
12.2022 - 07.2023
SAP Project Manager
Massmart
12.2021 - 11.2022
IT Project Manager
National Treasury
09.2020 - 11.2021
Project Manager
League Digital
04.2019 - 09.2020
Project Manager
South African Reserve Bank
11.2018 - 03.2019
Program Manager
ABSA Bank
06.2018 - 11.2018
Senior Finance Project Manager
ABInBEV (SAB)
10.2017 - 05.2018
Project Manager
Bytes Document Solutions
08.2014 - 09.2016
Project Manager
Nashua Communications
08.2012 - 07.2014
Project Manager
Dimension Data
09.2008 - 07.2012
End User Support Engineer
UCS Solutions
09.2006 - 08.2008
Technical Support Consultant
Lawyers Access Web
08.2005 - 07.2006
Junior Support Engineer
Business Connexion
06.2004 - 07.2005
Web Developer
Department of Finance
06.2003 - 05.2004
PGDip - Project Management
Tshwane University Technology
Bachelor’s Degree - Information Technology
Tshwane University Technology
National Diploma - Information Technology
Tshwane University Technology
National Senior Certificate -
Soshanguve High School