PMO Finance Lead

An excellent opportunity to join the Change Management team of our services sector client as PMO Finance Lead. Reporting to the Head of Change you will play a key role in change delivery for a portfolio of projects. You will be the Project Finance Lead withresponsibility for managing agreed change budgets, defining & embedding budgetary control processes, and working with the Finance team to ensure senior leadership can make informed decisions in relation to budget spend.

Your primary responsibilities will include:
Managing Budget
- Acting as an aggregation point in managing resource and 3rd party project costs demanded by the portfolio and reconciling this to the Change cost centre budget
- Management and forecasting of resource costs vs overall cost centre budget, with supporting FTE and Headcount analysis, escalating any concerns to the Head of CMO.
- Supporting the roadmap review and shaping processes, to gain a greater understanding of pipeline budgets
- Supporting projects with the identification of benefits, tracking throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring realisation is achieved and reported on

Purchasing Process
- Manage the purchasing processes across the portfolios, including handling purchase requisitions, raising PO’s or arranging P-Card payments in-line with agreed policy

Governance
- Support the Change Management Lead, to ensure processes and templates for budgetary control and project spend are fit for purpose and clearly documented in the Change Framework
- Provide support and coaching on budgetary control processes to PM’s
- Support projects with the identification and management of financial risks

Reporting
- Maintain the project cost tracker template and process, providing support to the project managers as required
- Manage the monthly timesheet templates and associated master data
- Review weekly timesheet consolidations, check for data integrity and where necessary oversee that corrective action is taken by the business
- Produce utilisation data both in terms of historical actuals and forecasts for portfolio reporting purposes

About you

You will have previous experience in a similar role within a PMO environment, with the ability to demonstrate a sound understanding of budget management (in excess of £20m). In addition, you will have previous experience setting up and embedding processes.Advanced MS Excel experience is essential. Prior experience using Power Query and VBA preferential. You will have a strong drive to deliver change; a pro-active, pragmatic and dynamic approach to work. Effective communication skills are imperative, with theability to communicate key messages both at a senior level and to project teams.

Salary up to £55,000 + Benefits.

An excellent opportunity to join the Change Management team of our services sector client as PMO Finance Lead. Reporting to the Head of Change you will play a key role in change delivery for a portfolio of projects. You will be the Project Finance Lead withresponsibility for managing agreed change budgets, defining & embedding budgetary control processes, and working with the Finance team to ensure senior leadership can make informed decisions in relation to budget spend.

Your primary responsibilities will include:
Managing Budget
- Acting as an aggregation point in managing resource and 3rd party project costs demanded by the portfolio and reconciling this to the Change cost centre budget
- Management and forecasting of resource costs vs overall cost centre budget, with supporting FTE and Headcount analysis, escalating any concerns to the Head of CMO.
- Supporting the roadmap review and shaping processes, to gain a greater understanding of pipeline budgets
- Supporting projects with the identification of benefits, tracking throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring realisation is achieved and reported on

Purchasing Process
- Manage the purchasing processes across the portfolios, including handling purchase requisitions, raising PO’s or arranging P-Card payments in-line with agreed policy

Governance
- Support the Change Management Lead, to ensure processes and templates for budgetary control and project spend are fit for purpose and clearly documented in the Change Framework
- Provide support and coaching on budgetary control processes to PM’s
- Support projects with the identification and management of financial risks

Reporting
- Maintain the project cost tracker template and process, providing support to the project managers as required
- Manage the monthly timesheet templates and associated master data
- Review weekly timesheet consolidations, check for data integrity and where necessary oversee that corrective action is taken by the business
- Produce utilisation data both in terms of historical actuals and forecasts for portfolio reporting purposes

About you

You will have previous experience in a similar role within a PMO environment, with the ability to demonstrate a sound understanding of budget management (in excess of £20m). In addition, you will have previous experience setting up and embedding processes.Advanced MS Excel experience is essential. Prior experience using Power Query and VBA preferential. You will have a strong drive to deliver change; a pro-active, pragmatic and dynamic approach to work. Effective communication skills are imperative, with theability to communicate key messages both at a senior level and to project teams.

Salary up to £55,000 + Benefits.**Our client offers from-home working,** however with the need to attend meetings in Carlisle twice a month.

, however with the need to attend meetings in Carlisle twice a month.