PMO Finance Manager | London | circa £50,000
THE BASICS:
Jonothan Bosworth Recruitment Specialists continue to support one of its key clients, who are based in North London, as they look to identify a PMO Lead with a financial background.
As the IT Finance PMO / PMO Finance Manager you will be responsible for the PMO Office, working with the PMO Manager, the Programme Managers and the Chief Information Officer to administer change programmes that ensure cost, quality, planning, and benefits realisation are controlled and achieved.
This is an exciting time to be joining an organisation that is experiencing significant change and this role will suit someone with solid stakeholder, portfolio & financial management experience : willing to transform ways of working.
The PMO Finance Manager will provide financial support to meet financial savings targets, identify savings schemes – ensuring the availability of accurate, timely financial information and analysis to support the transformation programme.
In supporting project budgeting and forecasting, finance reconciliation, and the review of spend vs. actuals, this role will hand you collective responsibility for the successful delivery of IT services to the business with the scope to respond to changing priorities, and changes to the business needs in a dynamic environment.
THE SKILLS:
If you have experience supporting a transformation portfolio and delivering complex/multi workstream projects, with an understanding of financial control processes – experience of programme and project level financial management and of defining and delivering benefits realisation we’d like to hear from you ASAP.
The ability to report and present information to senior management, with knowledge of benefits and dependency mapping, risk management and resource planning, coupled with an ability to influence others and build lasting relationships with key stakeholders will hold you in good stead.
PMO Leads with experience of training and coaching others and experience of project management using AGILE or PRINCE2; highly proficient IT skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS project and efficient in their change management methods, planning and tasks assignment are likely to be of interest.
THE OTHER PRE-REQUISITES:
This is a challenging role that will require you to take ownership and the building blocks of a PMO office from scratch – supporting other project managers on the project governance, templates and showing expertise on department finance tracking and being able to cope with a fluid working environment.
Part of the ongoing tasks will include presenting timely and accurate reports at finance meetings and the reconciliation of the monthly accounts and report on budget variances.
If you can support management decision making by analysing benefit options and predicting future costs, whilst assisting the Programme Managers and Transformation Director with financial reporting and managing the transformation portfolio budget, monitoring expenditure, costs and reporting against originally defined budget(s), then this job opportunity should be for you.
THE INTERVIEW TIME FRAME:
Telephone interview (the ideal) Tuesday 31st July, between 12.30pm & 1.30pm and also between 3.30pm & 4.30pm
Face to face interview (the ideal) Friday 3rd August, between 11.00am & 3.00pm
THE CONCLUSION:
This is a fantastic job opportunity for a Manager with a solid financial and accounting background who can build and implement sustainable change at programme and project level.
PMO Leads who can manage and compile programme related financial and KPI information – scope projects and lead business case management; whilst assisting with benefits analysis and quality management; stakeholder management; portfolio management; tranche and project planning including milestone management; financial management; resource forecasting; change control; dependency management; and programme financial reporting are likely to receive an immediate interview request.
Please contact Jonothan Bosworth Recruitment Specialists for more information