PMO Manager, Cloud

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Main Responsibilities:

Governance and Risk Management

• Work with the Portfolio, Programme, and Project Managers to ensure adherence to the LSEG Group Standards for governance and risk management
• Responsible for facilitating regular programme meetings and follow-up with project team members as required.
• Responsible for the implementation of processes, policies and best-practice for change management where appropriate, ensuring (and measuring) embedment, adoption and effectiveness
• Preparation, collation and distribution of status reports and ad hoc presentations and reporting (including executive and senior management reporting).
• Ensure governance procedures are adhered to by the project managers, for example:
  • All project artefacts maintained throughout the project lifecycle (plans, resourcing profiles, cost plans, benefits schedules, RAID items, Change Requests and status reports) are up to date, accurate and follow Group quality standards.
  • Projects adhere to the change framework, use Group standard templates and are subject to the correct stage gate procedures throughout the project lifecycle
• Responsible for the complete programme health and reporting, providing clear metrics, measures, QA, remediation and continuous improvement. This will include leading and lagging indicators and dashboard metrics
• Manages and records the risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies on a project and executes formal change control standards and governance.
• Supporting the Programme, and Project Managers in governing geographically dispersed teams

Financial Management

• Manage the annual budget request process and perform regular financial reviews to track and measure financial performance against plan at the programme level

• Track and forecast key financial metrics against targets, applying insights from the business to make recommendations to effectively manage budget across programmes.
• Enforce Business Case standards and review portfolio Change Requests to control the drawdown of available funding and maximise return on investment
• Act as point of financial review for all cases and significant change requests across the programme
• Identify and analyse potential project/portfolio solutions to financial impacts, and help determine the most viable solution.
• Manage the process to deliver monthly reviews of spend against delivery for each programme/project

Communications

• Accountable for programme level communications
• Formulate data-driven insights to support negotiations and effectively persuade diverse collaborators, driving alignment towards shared objectives.
• Provide internal communications to all partners across the programmes celebrating successes and keeping people informed of developments impacting the organisation.
• Maintains collaborative and trusting relationships with partners, effectively overcoming challenges and positioning alternatives to move the project or programme forward.
• Proactively and effectively manages diverse collaborator groups across the project or programme lifecycle, successfully differentiating the approach and communications to address different customer needs.

Functional Management and Administration

• Manages and control programme level cost centres, agree budgets, and provide commentary to explain variance against plan
• Provides administration and support for on boarding new joiners, desk provision, and floor moves
• Quality assurance (QA) of data used for management reporting purposes, received from Programme, Portfolio, or Project Managers.

Observation of Internal Controls

• The jobholder will demonstrate and practice adherence to internal controls. This will be achieved by adhering to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records and, where appropriate, the timely implementation of internal and external audit points.
• Adherence to LSEG change standards, and communication of these to programme collaborators. This role ensures these are met through monitoring and tracking of programmes

Required Skills:

Essential

• Strong planning, organisational, and coaching skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the proven ability to work effectively with all organisational levels
• Excellent at managing and influencing a wide network of partners, including senior management, who can influence and build relationships
• Willing and able to challenge customers and various collaborators to better understand their needs
• Expert knowledge of financial, risk, and project management methodologies & tools.
• Understands different approaches to project management (e.g. Agile, Waterfall etc.) and ensures flexibility to deliver and execute within different ways of working.
• Excellent documentation skills; ability to create high quality steering committee materials
• More than 6 years of project, programme, or portfolio management experience

Preferred

• Global experience - working successfully with teams in multiple locations simultaneously
• Experience and knowledge of large scale, global, change programmes and portfolio management
• Experience in Cloud programmes and in agile working environments
• Background in working across a number of different sectors both business and IT related projects/programmes
• Knowledge of technology estates and technologies desirable
• Educated to degree level or equivalent

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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