Project Planning and Portfolio Management Specialist

4 weeks ago


Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom Interface Recruitment UK Full time
PMO Project Controller – Portfolio Risk and Finance Lead

Job Summary:

The role will be part of the IT PMO team, responsible for leading the Project/Portfolio Finances and Risk. This team will add value developing, supporting and improving all stages of the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Supports Project Leads in business case development and provides critical/consistent reviews on new Project requests.
  • Advises Projects Leads and assures costs estimates throughout the lifecycle.
  • Monitors project spend and identifies opportunities for cost savings, challenging the Project Managers where appropriate.
  • Leads portfolio process for cost forecasting and actual spend, providing accurate and timely data, aligning with Finance.
  • Provides insights on the Project budgets, assessing financial risks and variances to optimise the use of the overall Portfolio budget.
  • Embeds and runs portfolio Risk process, ensuring Project risks are being identified, owned and actively managed, mitigated or accepted.
  • Acts as the critical friend to Heads of Transformation and Project Managers to ensure risks are captured, categorised, managed or mitigated effectively.
  • Holds the holistic risk profile for the portfolio, providing insight and proactively identifying owners & contributors from across all teams so that risks can be understood, defined and quantified.
  • Provides insights on the risk across the portfolio of projects.
  • Captures portfolio level risks, ensuring risks are being owned and actively managed, mitigated or accepted.

Reporting:

  • Assess, analyse and collate inputs to provide effective reporting outputs (as required) for stakeholders/boards.

Requirements:

  • Proficient with MS Office, financial, project management and reporting software.
  • Is exceptionally well organised, a ruthless prioritiser with high attention to detail.
  • Strong team player with the ability to be objective and self-sufficient as required.
  • Flexibility and able to multitask in this fast moving and rapidly growing environment.
  • Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to build relationships with a broad set of stakeholders across all levels within the organisation.
  • Is data-driven, analytical and evidence-based in their thinking and decision making.
  • Appetite/curiosity for exploration and learning to continuously develop professionally and personally.
  • International work experience in dynamic and fast-paced environments, and/or other high-growth businesses advantageous.


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