Senior PMO, banking, London

Main Function

This central PMO will drive through the highest levels of project oversight, reporting, and championing ensuring the adoption and adherence of structured project delivery methodologies.

Key interfaces are: Project Sponsors, Head of COO Office, PM's, Regional Heads, Service Owners & Regional COO's.
Main Duties

Project Governance;

· Project Oversight across the project portfolio to spot obvious gaps in delivery plans. On-going guidance and support to project managers ensuring sign off to each project stage is achieved successfully

· Ensure all projects have defined benefits (tangible where appropriate) and return on investment evaluations to help steering committee's prioritise accordingly

· Own & co-ordinate the monthly pipeline project management process.

Structured Reporting and Management Information:

· Produce a quarterly summary report for review at SMT outlining SI position; successful projects, lessons learnt & degree of benefit realisation.

· Complete Post Implementation Reviews (including benefits realisation) for each S.I. on project completion.

· Ensure Regional initiatives are reported effectively on a monthly basis.and follow the project governance process

· Deliver monthly Strategic Initiatives reporting to appropriate stakeholders; continue to refine the key deliverables and challenge/ guide report content

Training / Support:

· Project Standards support and training to Project Managers for internal methodologies.

· Support the COOs in achieving effective project governance on inter regional initiatives and review for potential strategic/ global alignment

· Support and Training of Project Management Tools such as project plan repository (internally known as Tracker).

· Investigate getting Tracker up and running in Wealth, depending on funding & training.

· Attend Capital Projects Continuous Improvement Programme meetings & DCR management meetings and drive improvements in project management practices, including the ACMO & T+ models

Ad-hoc:

· Servicing ad-hoc requests such as information gathering, resource tracking, project financial reporting and building information packs for Steering Committee's



Person Requirements

· Project Management Office (PMO) experience in Investment Banking

· Excellent practical knowledge of project methodologies, frameworks and governance

· Project Management experience for small or medium sized projects

· Strong negotiating skills from junior PM's to Senior IT Managers

· Strong knowledge of both centralized and decentralized PMO processes and procedures

· Ability to collate, analyze and package Management Information quickly and accurately

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