Business Manager, PMO, banking, City of London

Joining the Global Technology Business Management team. You will report to the head of the Business Mgmt team. The key aspects of the role will be to work closely with the Business Management organisation and technology programme managers to:
·Manage overall team finances including annual planning, expense management and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) tracking
·Provision of corporate, business sponsors and senior management MIS
·Process control for mandatory governance and market requirements, eg SOX and Internal Audit deliverables
The person must have experience of managing all of the above for large global teams.
DEPARTMENT SUMMARY
The BMO provides a control function as well as ensuring that there is transparency of status, mandatory and financial tasks. At a high level the team is responsible for Financial Management , Technology Governance, Headcount, new product review, vendor relationship management and technology business continuity planning

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial Management: managing annual budget reviews, P&LS and process control

Headcount Management & Resource planning
·Hiring co-ordination
·Strategic Location strategy

Central vendor management relationship: establish process

Process control: implementing strategic process control measures

Compliance:
·Keep abreast of mandatory requirements, eg SOX and CAPS, and other compliance related deliveries for the department and track any open audit items across the department
·Keep abreast of upcoming audit requirements for the department and track any open audit items across the department

Adhoc

·Ensure that the right governance structure is in place across the Tech delivery teams


·Work with other individuals in the PMO and Business Management department to identify process improvement opportunities to drive the necessary improvement, when the performance of applications/ change projects

·Ensure the snr mgmt team and CTO groups are kept updated with the relevant information and that it is communicated in a timely and effective manner


COMPETENCIES

Mandatory:

·Comprehensive experience in a Project Office Management and/ or Business Management function
·Financial management experience
·Self-starter with experience of working for a large global team
·Excellent inter-personal skills in negotiation and influencing
·Experience of working with senior management
·Ability to work calmly under pressure
·Strong analytic skills
·Excellent organisational, planning, writing and communication skills
·An interest in ensuring accuracy, clarity and quality of work
·Compliance experience
·Strong problem solving skills
·Understand requirement for client focus
·Attention to detail
·Good Excel (Data Manipulation)

Beneficial
02079971081


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