Senior Programme Office Manager
3 weeks ago
Senior Programme Office Manager
12 Months
Remote
My high-profile banking are looking for a Senior Programme Office Manager to join and champion, introduce and embed best practice governance and processes across a strategic Programme within the Bank, providing appropriate management controls to ensure thatthe programme is governed effectively and successfully delivers to the business strategy and vision. Lead and manage the activity required to enable the programme to execute business strategy and deliver sustainable change, in line with the Bank's change methodologyand ways of working.
**Responsibilities**:
- Work closely with the Programme Director to agree ways of working across the Programme
- Provide support, direction and challenge to the Programme to improve project delivery performance
- Support the Programme Director in providing appropriate management controls for the overall Programme, including:
- Governance and reporting
- Delivery plans - milestone definition and tracking (MSP)
- Dependency management (internal and external to the Programme)
- Quality (incl. scope) ensuring appropriate change control is enforced
- Financial management (cost/forecast management and tracking of both capex & opex)
- Benefits (tracking, both tangible and intangible)
- Resource management (people) identifying constraints and contentions across the Programme
- Risks & Issues Management (tracking and escalations)
- Stakeholder management including 3rd Parties
- Audit findings and resultant actions
- Support the design of governance structures for the Programme, ensuring governance is simple and flexible whilst enabling the right level of decision making and control.
- Organise and facilitate Programme governance forums
- Co-ordinate resource and capacity planning across the Programme in conjunction with Vertical Leads
- Administer Programme budget, including raising purchase orders, receipting invoices and supporting financial reconciliation activity
- Coordinate and support status reporting and other Programme reporting
- Plan and execute communication to stakeholders around the Programme status
- Undertake auditing and health checks on Workstreams within the Programme, managing resulting outputs
Co-ordinate and support external audit activity and corresponding actions
**Requirements**:
- Excellent knowledge of Project, Programme and Portfolio governance frameworks
- Excellent MSP skills
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Experience of different project/programme delivery techniques
- High level exposure to portfolio, project or programme reporting
- Exposure to senior level decision makers and able to influence and communicate effectively in this arena
- Ability to be a team player and work with key stakeholders on a day-to-day basis
- Proven presentation skills, both written and verbal
- Experience of use of project/programme methodologies and frameworks in an agile fast moving environment
- Experience of working in a programme or portfolio environment
- Be confident in discussions with senior stakeholders, in order to influence effectively
- Experience of facilitating and leading discussion forums
- Experience in team management and development
Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities' employer.
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