PMO Specialist - Banking

Job description / Role

Saudi Nationals Preferred

IN SUMMARY, PMO WILL NEED TO:

• Define project deliverables standards (e.g. document templates, metrics) in collaboration with PMO Quality Specialist
• Implement and enforce mechanisms to control and track IT projects
• Advice leaders, managers and team members on utilization of project management methodology and disciplines
• Act as the source of documentation, guidance and metrics
• Conduct review, support sign-off and approval processes for project deliverables
• Enforce and verify entry/exit criteria for all project phases
• Participate and facilitate all Project Status meeting
• Keep tracking of all projects/portfolio risks and issues
• Verify the execution of mitigation actions and follow up defined
• Collect, analyze and aggregate data to provide reports on Project progress status
• Assess on IT initiatives and project selections
• Monitor the execution and track progress of the IT portfolio

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Define 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, overall budget, etc.
• Monitor execution and track progress of projects, track milestones, overall costs, risk and issues, budget, etc.
• 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

PROJECT REPORTING

• Participate and facilitate all Project Status meeting
• Ensure that RAID reports are being compiled, socialized and distributed.
• Ensuring that the Risks, Issues are correctly articulated and proper mitigation actions have been logged.
• Facilitate full status reporting cycles between projects and Leadership team
• Facilitate steering committee / IT project portfolio reporting
• Verify that project report templates are applied to all project status reports
• 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
• Maintain and update the content of the IT PMO\IT projects website

Requirements

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Technology Science
• ITIL Foundation 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

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.