PMO in London

Overview

Expleo is looking for an experienced PMO to provide support and light-touch Project Management across multiple workstreams, coordinating activities and providing governance, planning and reporting support to ensure projects are delivered effectively.

The role maintains controls, manages risks and dependencies, and enables informed decision-making across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain and report progress against an integrated delivery plan, including key milestones, decision points and stage gates.
• Drive day-to-day delivery discipline across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• Track milestones, dependencies and blockers.
• Ensure clear routes to escalation where risks or delivery slippage require senior intervention.

• Maintain core programme controls, including

• Action logs
• Risk logs
• Issue logs
• Dependency logs
• Decision logs
• Ensure clear ownership and follow-up of actions.
• Coordinate governance meetings.
• Prepare meeting agendas and supporting documentation.
• Capture minutes and actions.
• Support project boards, leadership check-ins and working-level governance meetings where required.
• Manage programme budgets and resource forecasts.
• Track actual spend against planned expenditure.
• Conduct variance analysis to identify financial risks and opportunities.
• Own monthly accruals.
• Produce financial reports to support governance, decision-making and cost control.
• Prepare reporting packs and meeting materials.
• Produce progress tracking and RAG status reporting.
• Support preparation of board papers.
• Provide evidence of delivery against milestones.
• Maintain document discipline and version control.
• Support configuration management activities.
• Ensure information is available for effective oversight, assurance and execution.

Qualifications

• A relevant project management qualification is required.

Suitable credentials include PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, APM PMQ or MAPM.

In addition, Agile or Scrum certification is desirable, such as PSM, CSM or SAFe Agilist.

Essential skills

• Proven ability to maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, decision points and dependencies across multiple workstreams.
• Strong programme governance experience, including preparation of papers, packs, agendas, minutes, actions and RAG reporting.
• Excellent RAID, dependency, decision and action management capability.
• Strong attention to detail and document control discipline.
• Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate risks, issues and key updates clearly and proactively.
• Analytical capability to identify trends, risks, slippage and corrective actions using project data.
• Proven ability to manage budgets, resource plans, forecasting, financial reporting and variance analysis.

Experience

• Proven experience as a PMO on complex, multi-workstream projects.
• Experience delivering governance, planning, reporting, risk and dependency management, stakeholder engagement, resource tracking and financial management.
• Experience using Microsoft Office and project/reporting tools such as Microsoft Project, Clarity, Clarizen or equivalent.
• Experience working on regulatory change projects or programmes.
• Experience in complex stakeholder environments.
• Ability to coach colleagues in project frameworks and delivery best practices.
• Ability to quickly understand new environments and contribute effectively.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to

• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive

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