CPMO Finance Lead - Financial Services

CPMO Finance Lead

Overall purpose of role:

- Department financial process owner including a continuous improvement to the effectiveness of tools and techniques

- Financial Modelling, Business Planning & Analysis

- Growth Strategy Development

- Tracking and reporting against the performance of the business cases

- Reporting project programme/project performance against agreed Management Information (MI Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting

- Costing & Benefit Realization and Mitigation

- Compliance, Risk & Regulatory (applicable to finance)

- Stakeholder Management

- Line Management including team development, performance reviews and delivery

Person Specification:

Personal attributes essential to performing role including competencies, expertise, knowledge, and experience to include (but not exhaustive):

- Qualified Accountant

- Formal Accountancy qualifications

- Proven experience of working in large change programmes / multi-workstreams environments

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

- Qualified Accountant & any formal Accountancy qualifications

- Proven experience of working in large change programmes / multi-workstreams environments

- Stakeholder Management

- Exec level reporting

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

- Problem-solving experience in complex financial situations

- Broad financial services experience

- Strong and broad understanding of the Infrastructure components

- Experience of delivering large scale transformation programmes in banking or financial organisation.

- Experienced PMO with a demonstrable track record working on FO driven initiatives with cross functional delivery impact. VP level demonstrable PMO experience

- Proven track record of defining and embedding controls, processes and structure

- In-depth Knowledge of Project Office and Project Management function

- Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills. Able to work with and present to senior stakeholders including Board Level.

- Experience of working with Technology to deliver complex projects.

- Understanding and experience of managing end date driven change.

- Thorough knowledge of project management methodologies.