Project Management Officer (PMO)

Please note that this is a permanent position and we do not offer freelance/contract arrangement for the role.

We are currently looking for a Project Manager Officer (PMO)! You will join the GBS Office Tribe within the Group Business Solutions (GBS) division. By joining this team, you will facilitate a large range of support services that the team is providing to various stakeholders (including Roadmap Managers/Tribe leads, Department heads, Division heads) not only within the division but also to the full IT organisation when required. You will act as a referent to assist the Project Leader, Epic Delivery owners and plan owners with the existing Project Management toolsets and future evolution.

Mission statement of the team:

• Act as a central repository for project / release information and provide intelligent reporting to support departmental, divisional objectives and IT objectives

• The provision of day-to-day support to project and maintenance project contributors in project planning, reporting and monitoring, including also day-to-day specific/ad-hoc support to GBS Departments

• Support the IT transformation through active participation within various streams (IT transformation initiatives, practices harmonization, project mgt & resource management tooling,…)

The Role:

• Assisting the IT Portfolio and roadmap managers providing necessary strategic support in the following areas: portfolio preparation, budget monitoring & tracking demand capacity analysis, steering committee preparations

• Delivering the required analysis, monitoring and support services to a large organisation

• Collecting and collating data on progress measures, with a specific focus on the financial progress versus forecasts

• Analysing data and presenting conclusions to IT roadmap managers

• Providing regular reports with narrative for IT roadmap managers

• Recommending corrective action where necessary

• Assisting the IT roadmap managers in the development of long-range financial forecasts and related budgets

• Assisting the Project Leaders and providing necessary support for questions related to project financials and project tooling

• Support the adoption of best practices in Project and Resource Management methodologies across the organization

• Facilitating divisional, re-occuring meetings on different manners

• Drafting new and improving existing project management office policies and processes and support the implementation of new project tools

Your profile:

• Good understanding of project life cycle (Agile and Waterfall methodology) and governance

• Good understanding of project status reporting

• Good understanding of project/program financials

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Good analytical skills

• Ability to handle the tasks independently

• Strong interpersonal and multi-tasking skills

• Good knowledge of project tools and office suite (Excel, PowerBI, …)

• Ability to maintain the high-level macroplan prior to the start of the initiatives when this is picked up by the PLs

• English is a must