Assistant Vice President, Infrastructure PMO in London

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This role sits within the In Line PMO team, part of the Project Governance function. The Governance team plays a critical role in supporting bank-wide projects through management reporting, project accounting operations, financial reviews aligned to project planning, and process approvals required for project initiation. The In Line PMO team, covering both Bank and Securities entities, provides hands-on support to project delivery teams - primarily those within the Project Promotion team - by ensuring that Portfolio Leads and Project Managers are operating in alignment with PMO standards, delivery lifecycle requirements, and governance procedures.

The main responsibilities of the In Line Portfolio PMO are:

• Support and guide the Portfolio Manager, Accountable Executive and Programme / Project Managers in planning, controlling, monitoring and organizing the portfolio, ensuring compliance with governance and reporting and that the book of work is within delivery capability and resource capacity.
• Own and drive programme and project reporting e.g. through the creation of the monthly portfolio reporting pack from updates made by programme and project managers in Planview; creation of minutes and MI tailored for the target audience.
• Review and critique deliverables produced across the programme / projects for completeness and accuracy against policy and delivery lifecycle minimum standards; and provide structured feedback to project managers.
• Implement the Central PMO calendar across the portfolio / programme / projects being supported, ensuring that the policy and project delivery controls are followed at all times, promptly escalating issues, risks and continuous improvement suggestions to the Project, Programme and Portfolio managers as well as Central PMO and Project Governance.
• Partner with central PMO, other PMO in Business unit and teams in Project Governance to continually improve project, programme and portfolio governance, controls, methods and tools.

Essential:

• Minimum 5 years proven track record in executive reporting and financial process delivery and oversight.
• Accounting experience in understanding project cost categorisation and impact to broader financial reporting of an entity.
• Planview or similar PPM tool – prior experience as an end user; good understanding of the data model and extraction / manipulation of large data sets from Planview.
• Excel – advanced standard; knowledge of how to use excel formulae to create month end deliverables.
• Oracle financials or equivalent toolset – experience in Payables module.

Excellent interpersonal, relationship and communication skills, able to collaborate and partner with all areas of Change, Technology and the business. Demonstrable track record of excellent stakeholder management, managing multiple stakeholders and proven ability to deal professionally with senior management.