PMO Lead

Summary: The PMO Lead role involves overseeing a high-impact transformation project aimed at modernizing fault and outage management within the network. The position requires strong financial tracking, governance, and reporting skills, along with effective communication and organizational abilities. The role is hybrid, based in Reading, and is expected to last for 12 months. Candidates should have proven experience in PMO roles and a solid understanding of programme governance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Track and collate details on monthly finances, carrying out full analysis of forecasts vs budgets and reporting on variances to the Programme Manager
• Resolve any financial anomalies with central finance team, collate journals for Business resources
• Tracking and reporting on programme delivery and milestones
• Leading the Programme's governance framework and ensuring alignment with internal standards
• Supporting programme board meetings, including collation of preparation of packs, minute taking and management of arising actions
• Maintaining and updating RAID logs - risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies. Drive proactive risk and issues management, ensure timely escalation and resolution
• Monitoring the programmes SharePoint and Teams depository and ensuring documentation is up to date

Key Skills:

• Proven experience in a previous PMO role
• Strong understanding of Programme governance
• Demonstrable experience in financial tracking and reporting for major Programmes, including budget management and variance analysis
• Expertise in RAID log management and risk/issue governance
• Excellent organisational and communication skills, with experience of prepping board level materials

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Reading

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other