Vice President - PMO - BFSI - IIT/BITS/NIT/IIM/ISB/FMS/MDI

Vice President PMO

Responsibility: To lead and manage PMO function within technology department

Location: Mumbai

Main Focus and Challenges

We are seeking an experienced and strategic head of Project Management Office (PMO). The ideal candidate will have a strong background in project management, financial markets, and operations. As the head of PMO, you will be responsible for overseeing and optimizing the execution of strategic initiatives, projects, and programs. Candidate should be able to work closely with various technology units like Operations, Development, Infrastructure, and other departments like legal, compliance, enterprise risk & security.

Technical Skills & Key Responsibilities:

- Define and implement standardised project management methodologies, processes and tools to ensure consistent and efficient project execution

- Strong project management and delivery experience, engineering expertise for complex deliveries

- Develop and maintain a portfolio of projects, programs and initiatives ensuring that they are aligned with exchange's requirements

- Monitor project progress, timelines and budget and provide regular updates to executive leadership

- Identify and mitigate project risks, develop contingency plans and ensure timely resolution of issues

- Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the PMO, encouraging best practices and lessons learned to enhance project delivery outcomes

- Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders including regulatory bodies, vendors and partners.

- Represent and manage the department in various audits that are undertaken. Prepare necessary management responses, facilitate items to closure and ensure that compliance with organisational practices is done in letter and spirit.

- Good understanding of technology especially software development life cycle

- Ability to work productively under pressure and effectively undertake multi-tasking.

- Ability to manage a cross functional team of in-house and outsourced partners.

Functional Skills:

- Knowledge of financial markets

- Must have worked in a high scale, high speed IT Systems and time critical delivery environment.

- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies, tools and best practices

- Must have strong systems architecture insights

- In depth knowledge of delivery lifecycle, budgeting, planning, risk management, communication management, people management

- High degree of organization and detail-orientation

- Ability to prioritize & consistently deliver results in complex, fast-paced environment

- Excellent articulation (verbal and written), negotiation and stakeholder management skills

- Analytical mindset with ability to identify trends, risks and opportunities within project portfolios.

- Experience with change management and driving organisational transformation is a plus

Qualifications & Experience:

- An effective leader who excels in a high growth environment and delivers desired outcomes. Specifically, the successful candidate will have the following characteristics:

- BE/BTECH/MBA from Premier Technology Institute/Tier1 Engineering/ Management College

- Around 20 years (with at least 5 years at senior level) in Financial Sector/ Stock Exchange / Banking.