PMO – Digital Transformation

Focus areas: 

• Planning project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables aligned to their respective project roles and skillsets.
• Expertise in milestone tracking and delivery management. 
• Expertise in creating/managing Investment case in line with the Organisation strategic goals

(preferably has exposure to Value stream investment plan (VSIP) management)

• Expertise in setting up RAID management (including NFR reporting) and Change control processes. 
• Expertise in setting up PMO governance for the project. 
• Expertise in creating governance related decks and running governance forums (ex: Executive forums, Steering committee).
• Expertise in creating status report catering to different audiences from Sponsors to project group. Expertise in Requirements Management Dashboard Reporting.
• Analyzing financial data, including project budgets, risks, and resource allocation. 
• Providing financial reports and budget outlines to Decision makers. Managing finance end to end along with demand management. 
• Understanding of Governance framework and ensuring project adherence to it (ex: Change Control Frameworks and Standards & Control Monitoring)
• Understanding of Benefit Realization tracking (Understanding of OKRs and Tracking).
• Excellent in Stakeholder Management – Stakeholder identification, relationship and expectations management, conflict resolution.
• Drafting new and improving existing project management office policies and processes. 
• Continuously evaluating projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines.
• Accurately documenting the project's creation, development, and execution as well as documenting the project's scope, budget, and justification. 
• Demonstrating an excellent understanding of the project lifecycle. 
• Expertise in water fall and Agile methodologies (In Agile is exposed to PI planning. Quarterly business reviews).
• Having Business Transformation Projects delivery experience.
• Preferrable - Knowledge of working on tools like Clarity, MS Project, JIRA, Clarity, Confluence, Qliksense, SharePoint, GPDM.

Transformation and Framework: 

• Possessing an excellent understanding of Global Change Delivery Business Transformation Frameworks and best practice techniques. 
• Having a thorough understanding of the purpose, value, culture, and fundamentals of Global Change Delivery. 
• Demonstrating a strong understanding of banking and an understanding of how change drives benefits for business, its customers, and other stakeholders. 

Project Management Expertise: 

• Understanding Project Management principles and methodologies, Agile framework and deliverables. 
• Having exposure to PMO Services and understanding of PMO Function. 

Team and Leadership Skills: 

• Being a strong people manager and having broad experience in managing large teams of different work streams/geographies.
• Possessing in-depth experience of working in a banking / financial services environment and change projects. 
• Demonstrating good stakeholder management experience, especially impactful communication, influencing, and running project governance, implementation, change management, and benefits realization. 
• Understanding the PMO activities and its governance role. Hands-on experience as a PMO is desirable. 
• Having proven experience of setting up Project Management Processes and implementing Best Practices. 
• Experience working with multiple delivery and business partner teams. 

Client-Facing Skills: 

• Experience in Client Facing roles.