PMO Specialist

Job description / Role

• Define companies standard templates and project methodology to be adopted, considering quality assurance guidelines.
• Monitor the execution and track progress of the IT portfolio, track overall milestones, overall costs, overall risk and issues.
• Measure and report on budget and schedule deviations
• Create Dependencies Matrix and reporting Matrices
• Verify projects deliverables across all SDLC stages
• Verify the execution of stage-gate process and ensure the implementation of the quality findings and recommendations.
• Enforce the usage of entry/exit criteria for project phases
• Organize configuration management & ensure version control of all project deliverables
• Conduct review and facilitate document sign-off and approval processes for project deliverables
• Track and keep update risk and issue inventory for all projects and portfolio
• Follow up on the risk mitigation actions and assist the process where required.
• Verify that mitigate actions proposed are executed
• Develop and Manage a Portfolio level benefits register, ensuring that all benefits are planned, monitored and benefits realization is tracked
• Ensure Implementation of change control process across all projects
• Register the new IT initiative\project
• Participate and facilitate all Project Status meeting
• Provide project reports to Head of PMO when required
• Ensure that regular status meetings are attended by the applicable teams.
• Produce reports for each project and in summary for the project portfolio of the project’s levels of risks and issues

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology Science
• ITIL Foundation Certification is a must
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or similar is a good plus
• Experience in working with Standard Project Management Frameworks
• +3 year of experience as PMO specialist (on banking context is preferable)
• +5 Years of IT Work Experience
• Good knowledge of project management principles and technique
• Good knowledge of project planning and estimation principles and technique
• Good knowledge of project progress status metrics
• Good knowledge of MS Project Management, MS Office, Project Management tools and techniques
• Good Knowledge of key aspects of Knowledge Management, development and maintenance of KM Repository.
• Interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization and interact/influence/negotiate effectively at all levels of management and peers
• Good communication (written and spoken) skills
• Strong problem solving skill
• Fluent English and Arabic spoken and written

About the Company

Saudi Networkers Services, incorporated in 2001 with an aim to provide the world class business and consulting services through a combination of market insight, technical excellence and unrivalled agile methodology.

Our success stems from building strong relationships and trusted partners, which enabled us delivering exceptional services to public sector, as well as some world's leading organizations, in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Banking, Energy, Utilities and various other industry arenas.

We collaborate closely, ideate that how the work gets done, while working alongside businesses to collaborate on growth and applying breakthrough innovations, that drive exponential impact, managed by teams specialized in their assigned industry sectors.