PMO - Compliance & Financial Crime

PMO - Compliance & Financial Crime 

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A leading financial services organisation is seeking an experienced Senior PMO / Portfolio Analyst to join a collaborative and supportive PMO function. This role sits at the centre of strategic change delivery, providing governance, financial oversight and executive reporting across a portfolio of projects and programmes.

Working closely with programme leaders, finance teams and senior stakeholders, you will play a key role in ensuring projects are delivered with strong financial control, structured governance and clear reporting to leadership.

• Provide executive-level reporting across programmes and portfolios, ensuring accurate and timely updates for senior stakeholders and steering committees.

• Manage project financials, including budget planning, forecasting, and cost categorisation (capital vs expense) with clear alignment to broader financial reporting requirements.

• Maintain and oversee portfolio governance frameworks, ensuring adherence to established project lifecycle policies and documentation standards.

• Support steering committees and working groups, including agenda preparation, minute taking and action tracking.

• Manage project baselines and change control, covering scope, schedule, budget and benefits realignment where required.

• Maintain comprehensive project books and records throughout the lifecycle from initiation through to closure and archival.

• Oversee risk, issue and change management, including RAID log management and escalation where necessary.

• Coordinate portfolio planning and roadmap management, supporting annual planning cycles and critical path oversight.

• Manage resource demand and supply tracking across programmes to ensure effective allocation of project resources.

• Drive lessons learned and post-implementation reviews to support continuous improvement across the PMO function.

• Influence project teams and stakeholders to maintain compliance with governance standards and reporting cadence.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in executive reporting and financial process oversight within a PMO, programme or portfolio management environment.

• Strong accounting awareness with experience understanding project cost categorisation and its impact on financial reporting.

• Proven experience delivering projects or portfolios from initiation through to closure within structured project governance frameworks.

• Experience managing portfolio baselines, financial controls and change management processes.

• Demonstrated capability in risk, issue and change management, including maintaining RAID logs and programme-level reporting.

• Experience supporting governance structures, including defining and managing Terms of Reference for steering committees and working groups.

• Planview (or similar PPM tool) – prior experience as an end user with strong understanding of data models and extracting/manipulating large datasets.

• Advanced Excel – strong knowledge of formulas and financial data manipulation to support month-end deliverables and reporting.

• Oracle Financials (or equivalent) – experience with the Payables module.

• Power BI (or equivalent reporting tools) – experience producing analytical dashboards and reporting outputs.

• MS Office – expert knowledge of PowerPoint, Word and Visio.

• SharePoint – intermediate knowledge for document management and collaboration.

PMO - Compliance & Financial Crime 

Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted. 

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