Responsibilities:
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Project coordination for several PMO competence areas across program/project portfolio.
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Assist leads and project managers in managing a large portfolio of programs and projects.
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Enforce a culture of PMO best practices across the group, including adherence to processes and procedures from various governance groups.
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Serve as liaison between multiple domain areas within the group to synthesize information for communications/presentations.
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Maintain existing departmental and Project Office policies and procedures.
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Continue to update and improve project methodologies, provide mentoring and training to other PMs and act as an SME.
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Support team members in the planning, directing, and coordination of day-to-day activities of running a program or portfolio of programs.
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Liaise with a range of teams from Data Program PMO, Transformation Program Office, Program Execution Management, Central Transformation, and Program/Project Managers, providing insightful financial and business analysis and developing senior management reports, to define and track key operational/program metrics and to help drive business decisions to achieve goals.
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Proactively follow escalation and change control processes, when necessary.
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Utilize proficient Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills to provide effective reporting and documentation including dashboards and scorecards.
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Excellent oral and written communication skills necessary to effectively communicate issues, risks, and progress on complex processes to multiple stakeholders.
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Self-initiate, work productively when unsupervised, and multitask across multiple concurrent projects.
Qualifications:
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Bachelor’s degree is required.
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Prefer PMP or similar project management certification.
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5 to 7 years of project/program management experience.
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Must be able to design solutions, data modeling and framework, ideally financial services but possibly will consider large global experience outside of banking.
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Proven track record of PMO or Project Management within the Finance or Consultancy industry.
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Must have experience with documentation preparation & review.
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Very strong Excel with experience pumping through lots of data.
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Good strong BA skills and will be doing lots of tracking.
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Proficiency with MS Office products, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
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