We are working with a leading consulting firm in Dublin that is looking for a PMO Manager for its Financial Services team.
Within the Business Consulting and Business Transformation team, this role will help financial services organisations solve their complex business challenges from strategy to execution.
Duties are as follows:
* Lead the programme management office across the end-to-end project lifecycle, from business case development to project mobilisation, execution and close-out.
* Manage the day-to-day activities of a PMO Team (PMO Analysts) and management of programme artefacts and processes.
* Work directly with the Programme Manager to support the management and administration of senior / Exec Level governance forums and other relevant SMT reports needed.
* Monitor areas of significant programme risk in conjunction with the Steering Committees and Programme Executives and Project Managers – act as an independent QA, reviewing reports (e.g., scope, schedule, cost, RAID Logs).
* Track and monitor compliance to status reporting and summarise for required governance forums – ensure status submissions are accurate.
* Support the relationship between the PMO Team and Project Managers across the programme.
* Support the creation of Decision and Change Request Papers for relevant governance forums.
* Monitoring of the path and interdependencies between programmes.
* Support the Workstream Project Managers with their Change Control inputs (Milestone plan, resourcing forecasts and RAID items).
* Manage the overall programme financials (including client / third party costs and non-resource costs such as licencing) and burn rate tracking, actively managing the forecast, budget, accruals and master resource list (MRL).
* Support client annual investment planning process with programme cost estimates.
* Reconciliation of cost submissions and alignment in relevant project management systems such as Clarity - (rate changes / indexation / effective utilisation of resources).
* Manage benefits: Define and baseline the benefits that the programme will be measured against, monitor and report progress against target benefits and challenge team leads on expected benefits.
* Draw on the Business, Technology, People and Risk Consulting practices as well as experience from our global consulting network.
* Work with a global team of experts to develop unique and innovative solutions as well as benefitting from best-in-class training and development and bring the right insights and capability at the right time for our client engagements.
Applicants should have the following:
* 7+ years experience in a PMO Lead role in financial services.
* Primary Degree.
* Experience of delivery of complex projects and strong presentation skills.
* Highly experienced in financial, stakeholder and people management.
* Experience of working on projects through the full delivery life cycle (from project concept/initiation to closing).
* Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty.
* Project Management Certification and/or Agile certification desirable (e.g. PRINCE2, Scrum Master).
* Experience using project and portfolio management tools such as Clarity is preferable.
* Management Consulting experience is preferable.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Project Management and Consulting
Industries
* Financial Services, Business Consulting and Services, and Banking
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