Project Manager- Financial Services

As the PMO Manager at Velocity FincrimeSolutions Suite, you will be responsible for managing the IT Project Management Office. Your role includes overseeing the IT Project Portfolio Governance, enforcing project management frameworks, and ensuring successful execution of all IT projects. Additionally, you will drive continuous improvements within the PMO program and take a hands-on project management role for critical IT initiatives while leading a team of project managers and coordinators. Your key responsibilities will involve being accountable for the IT Portfolio processes, implementing project management standards, supervising and mentoring the project management team, creating staffing plans, analysing project proposals, providing leadership to project teams, ensuring effective project communication, managing project risks and issues, aligning project goals with business objectives, employing agile/scrum methodologies, and facilitating self-organizing agile teams. To be successful in this role, you should hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field, along with a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. You should have a minimum of 7+ years of experience in project management of complex IT projects, a deep understanding of agile frameworks, a background in Business Analysis, and proven experience managing an IT Portfolio or PMO. Strong leadership, interpersonal, and organizational skills, as well as excellent written and verbal communication abilities, are essential. Experience in software product development life cycles and the banking or financial services domain is also required.,