Job Description

Join us as a PMO Officer Joining a highly collaborative team, this is a unique opportunity to make a difference to our customers and the bank With exposure to a wide range of stakeholders, you ll be supporting a number of projects, products and programmes, enabling teams to focus on developing and delivering solutions and removing impediments It s an opportunity to build your network across the bank and gain great exposure for you and your work Were offering this role at associate level What youll do Reporting to the Release Train Manager or Programme Manager, you ll be helping them with planning activities by capturing and tracking the key programme planning outputs, including objectives, business value, milestones, risks and dependencies. As a PMO Officer, we ll look to you to collaborate well with others to establish the key progress points and deliverables that will give value. You ll also be: Helping to develop and maintain roadmaps Providing guidance and support to teams on essential financial management activities, including purchase order management, forecasting, budgeting and time recording Ensuring an alignment between the financial reporting systems and project reporting systems, and challenging any financial variances Building positive working relationships with stakeholders across multiple domains, franchises and functions and at different levels of hierarchy Contributing to continuous improvement initiatives The skills youll need We re looking for someone with strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across multi-disciplined teams. Excellent communication skills are essential, and you ll be able to challenge constructively, while developing and maintaining strong and open working relationships. You ll also need: Minimum 5 to 10 years of experience in PMO role A good understanding of Agile methodologies, with experience of working in an Agile team The ability to operate effectively within an environment of change and provide clarity and insight to complex discussions and debates Strong prioritisation skills across multiple work streams and a proactive approach to work The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to others