PMO Governance

Overview:
**About the role**:
Reporting to the Director, Portfolio Management, the hybrid role of PMO Governance & Release Manager will focus on responsibilities aligned to that of of PMO Governance Lead as well as Release Engineering. The position will offer quite a bit of flexibility to work from home as part of Finastra's hybrid working model.

**Responsibilities**:
**About the role**:
Reporting to the Director PMO, the Project Manager is responsible for ensuring that the projects are executed in line with all contractual obligations to the client in a professional, cost-effective and timely manner, ensuring that Finastra achieves (or improves upon) the planned financial return from the project; within this objective, you should give the client value for money.

**What you'll do**:

- Produce and maintain a project and quality plan, and conduct the project accordingly. Developing full-scale project plans and associated communications documents.
- Establish effective and appropriate project governance for the project
- Manage the project staff and other resources assigned to the project.
- Report effectively on project progress, problems encountered and their solutions by means of a project status report and also ad-hoc reports as appropriate.
- Direct and manage project development from beginning to end.
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
- Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
- Liaise with project stakeholders on an on-going basis
- Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
- Ensure proper financial management of the project including tracking planned hour variances and Estimate at Completion (EAC).
- Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
- Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
- Track project milestones and deliverables.
- Control project financials thru an effective change control process and efficient resources management
- Proactively manage changes in project scope, working with the client and internal project teams.
- Ensure proper risk management by documenting all risks and ensuring effective mitigation strategy. Devise contingency plans as necessary.
- Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
- Develop or enhance best practices and tools for project execution and management

**What you'll need**:

- 3 years of direct (recent) experience in a similar role in an insurance, financial services or banking institutions with Fixed Price / Scope implementation
- Lending or Trade industry knowledge preferred
- PMP certification preferred
- Experience in implementation and support of complex enterprise software systems
- Thorough understanding of project management methodologies and tools available
- Customer driven and have the ability to work within a team environment
- Strong organization and presentation skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills

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Qualifications:
**What you'll need**:
- Analytical, detail-oriented- Strong process orientation- Leadership, strong sense of ownership, excellence, does not need to be told what to do (after initial rampup)- Strong foundational knowledge of basic enterprise technology concepts. This role is more governance focused, but comprehension of technical context is necessary.- Very familiar (Expert level) with Excel, SharePoint, ServiceNow- Strong understanding of agile concepts- Experience working in a large organization (LOBs vs. Shared Services)- Strong verbal and written communication skills- ITIL or PMI certifications a plus