ePMO Specialist

Docklands, London (Hybrid)

Up to £65,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus

On behalf of a Leading financial services client, I am seeking an experienced ePMO Specialist to join their established team on a permanent basis.

The role will support the Head of ePMO in promoting and upholding effective project governance and delivery throughout the organisation. This may include supporting project or portfolio governance oversight, maintenance of the project management framework, ownership of their project management tools and supporting leading practice standards suitable for a Designated Financial Market Utility.

Due to the organisation operating a hybrid work model, you will need to be within commuting distance of their Docklands, London offices and able to commit to 2 days per week in office.

Responsibilities:

• Support leadership to develop, implement and communicate PMO's strategy and goals, and interface with all levels of management.
• Support implementation and running of PMO industry practices to maintain better cross functionality by driving the strategic vision of PMO as a control function and maturing the PMO
• Support implementation and running of portfolio management controls and processes.
• Ensures the project team execute the project in adherence to the Project Management Policy and governance of projects.
• Ensures that the project team effectively monitor and report on the execution and tracking progress of individual projects, track milestones, schedule deviations, overall costs, risk and issues, budget, etc.
• Provide advice and guidance to the project manager to ensure the project adheres to procedures
• Support development and implementation of consistent PMO processes, tools and templates across projects and overall portfolio
• Conduct checkpoint/stage gate reviews/and all other ePMO control points as part of the project framework
• Conduct Healthchecks providing ongoing independent quality assurance of project status
• Attendance at key project meetings (project boards, working groups) to ensure compliance to framework, effective governance, and provide SME support as applicable
• Ensure project management tool is up to date by the project manager
• Ensure risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions are documented and commensurate with the project complexity.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex risks and issues as required.
• Provide guidance in identification and tracking the RAID (Risk, Assumptions,
  Issues and Dependencies) process
• Interface with Audit and Regulators on PMO projects as applicable
• Support implementation of PMO industry practices to maintain better cross functionality by driving the strategic vision and maturing the PMO.

Experience/Skills required:

• Minimum of 3 - 5 years of progressive responsibility working on large complex projects in a cross functional environment demonstrating standard project management skills preferably within a regulated financial services environment.
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years or more of experience in project and portfolio management, working in the PMO or ePMO preferably within a regulated financial services environment
• Knowledge of project management frameworks
• Understands and has practical experience of both running projects, and supporting portfolio/projects in a PMO capacity
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal.
• High ethical standards and a profound sense of integrity and confidentiality.
• Experience with PPM Pro or similar would be advantageous.