Senior PMO - Banking Transformation

The role

This person will support and govern complex banking transformation programmes. They will provide programme governance, portfolio management, and oversight of scope, financials, risks, and resources.

What you will do

• Establish and maintain PMO governance, controls and delivery standards.
• Support Programme Directors and senior stakeholders in maintaining oversight of programme performance.
• Coordinate governance forums, Steering Committees and programme reviews.
• Maintain programme-level visibility across scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, risks and delivery outcomes.
• Develop and maintain integrated programme and portfolio plans.
• Track key milestones, deliverables and dependencies.
• Own or coordinate programme-level Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies management.
• Maintain effective change-control processes.
• Support programme financial management including budget tracking, forecasting, actuals and variance analysis.
• Produce concise and meaningful programme reporting for senior management and Steering Committees.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of PMO, Project Management or Programme Management experience within banking or financial services.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or governing complex transformation programmes.
• Strong banking domain exposure.
• Strong experience across programme governance, integrated planning, RAID management, change control, financial management and executive reporting.
• Ability to analyse programme information and identify risks, trends, dependencies and areas requiring intervention.
• Experience working across multiple projects or workstreams within a complex programme or portfolio.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience engaging senior management, Programme Sponsors and Steering Committees.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Comfortable operating in complex, fast-paced and highly regulated environments.

Nice to have

• Previous experience within management consulting, technology consulting or professional services.
• Experience supporting major banking transformation or regulatory programmes.
• Experience establishing or improving PMO governance and delivery frameworks.
• Exposure to portfolio management, investment governance or programme prioritisation.
• Experience managing PMO teams or coordinating geographically distributed delivery teams.
• PMP, PRINCE2, MSP, Agile or equivalent project/programme management certification.

About the company

Capco is a global business and technology consultancy dedicated to the financial services industry. They partner with banks and financial institutions on programmes spanning business transformation, digital and technology change, operating model transformation, regulatory change and large-scale programme delivery.