Senior Manager, PMO

The Senior Manager Project Management role will act as a strategic partner to functional teams and as a conduit into finance and technology organisation. This role will focus on executing the short-term and longer-term strategy of the EPMO and deliver projects consisting of cross-functional teams including contract resources. These projects will focus on enhancing financial and operational capabilities to meet portfolio, programme and project needs across the organisation.

The position applies traditional, “Lean”, and design-based project management principles and practices, and uses a design-based, human-centred approach to create processes and resources that appropriately fit the range of project complexity, size and environment at CFA Institute. It coordinates with appropriate change management, design thinking, and process improvement practices as well. The ePMO Senior Manager builds effective relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation, involves them in the design of processes and selection of resources and project plans, and assures their satisfaction with the support provided.

As the Senior Manager Project Management, you will have the opportunity to:

• Be responsible and accountable for ePMO projects, subprojects, processes to enhance financial management, project portfolio processes, tools and enabling technologies.
• Engage business groups to capture portfolio and programme level requirements and use cases; review market intelligence/benchmarking to recommend process enhancements and enabling tools and technologies to manage the project portfolio.
• Develop framework and design proof of concepts to assess project and financial management functionality within existing application landscape (e.g., Workday, Netsuite, JIRA).
• Engage senior leaders across finance, technology, and business areas to define the project goals and operating models, and releases.
• Understand, implement and optimise the use of tools and techniques to manage key performance indicators (KPI) and support efficient decision-making, including dashboarding and data reporting.
• Ensure compliance with ePMO processes, controls and documentation standards for business cases, project scheduling and reporting; liaise with finance for funding and authorisation and requisite financial analysis (e.g., analysing project chequebooks including forecasts, actual costs, and budgets).
• Develop and sustain effective relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation and involve them in the design of processes and resources initially and through subsequent ongoing testing and improvement.
• Perform ad-hoc analysis and special projects relevant to project controls: focused area assessments (FASAs), strategic initiatives, process and procedure revisions or new process and procedure creation, and training sessions.
• Respond in a timely manner to all ad hoc questions and requests for information. Become a one stop, widely recognised source for management.
• Demonstrate & educate: prove the importance of EPMO tools and processes to executive management and other important internal stakeholders.
• Ensure a good working relationship between the project team, internal resources, vendors, and interfacing organisations.
• Coach and lead team members to ensure completion of assigned tasks.