PMO Lead - London, United Kingdom - Ameriprise Financial

Ameriprise Financial
Ameriprise Financial
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Where you'll fit in & what our team goals are


Reporting up to the Head of Change Management Office, you will support an assigned Programme Manager to help monitor project and programme performance against agreed targets (plan, financial performance, governance and change controls, risk and issue management).


You will help support implementation of strategic changes to core processes resulting from the ongoing implementation of a business change capability within Columbia Threadneedle Investments.

Some specific areas of focus will include financial management and assisting with deployment & upskilling of core team members with best practice PM process.


Responsibilities

How you'll spend your time....
This role is within the Global Transformation and Change Management Office, predominantly supporting Program Management delivery, with some time allocated to supporting the central PMO team's execution responsibilities

  • Provide support to the assigned Programme Manager/s and associated business leads. Support the delivery of large and complex business projects that are often crossorganizational initiatives in support of strategic objectives.
  • Ensure that all projects are managed within the company's project delivery assurance framework and quality measures. Key role will be to help provide analytics across all project plans and business cases to monitor current status of delivering business benefits through capability delivery from the projects. Expected to be comfortable understanding programmes and associated financial business cases up to £20m.
  • Provide direct support to 4 project managers to ensure that all expectations are met around the project reporting cycle. A key aspect of this will not just be to ensure that PMs are on top of plans, dependency logs, financials, risks and issues, change requests, but are also providing analytics up to the programme manager so that context is provided around thematics that are impacting the portfolio. Additional support will be needed to raise quality levels of reporting ensuring that messaging is crisp, concise and precise and related to business drivers and outcomes.
  • Assist with implementation of the new operating model for Business Change into approved Programmes. This will include liaising with all stakeholder groups including Technology, Data, Operations, Risk, 3rd parties for implementing changes around WoW (Ways of Working) and implementing any changes to process. Particular focus in the initial phases will be around preparing programme financial monitoring based on new tooling and supporting the annual budgeting cycle. A direct responsibility will be to ensure that all key controls for change are embedded within the change programme, working closely with PMs to monitor dates for controls testing and evidencing. These will then be supplied into the steering committee at regular intervals in order that biannual RCSA attestions can be made by the Head of Change and Transformation.
  • Provide secretariat duties to the programme. This will include drafting of initial papers and providing guidance to the programme mgr and sponsors around decisions due and helping to pull together supporting information. Production of minutes and tracking all other in and outbound actions from other governance bodies such as the CPG and IEG will also be a major part of this role.
  • Onboarding and Business Mgmt. support the role holder will be required to work with the Change Operations / Business Management areas of Change ensuring that there is efficient management of items that impact the functioning of the assigned programme/s. This will include monitoring of resourcing onboarding, liasion with GTC Ops and Tech for technology and facilities provision, developing suitable onboarding plans to assist with quick familiarisation of CTI people, tools, and practices for any new hires.
  • Leading key issues that require ownership & selfstarting this could include anything from a project financial deep dive to undertaking a programme wide check on resource plans against changes in business appetite (i.e support the programme mgr in simulation of upscaling / downscaling the tea, should budgets move).

Required Qualifications

To be successful in this role you will have....

  • Expertise in utilizing industrystandard project management methodologies and tools that incorporates Capability Maturity Model (CMMi) methods.
  • Solid demonstrable understanding of project accounting and how to develop business cases and then translate and monitor into project cost models and forecasts. Individual should understand clearly 3rd party P2P processes and how to reconcile a monthly ledger posting.
  • Demonstrated experience in supporting largescale project initiatives to successful completion and implementation.
  • Strong relationship building skills; highly effective communication skills that include ability to gain acceptance of others to a point of view.
  • Ability to identif
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