Wednesday, June 16, 2010

FILLED: Interim [ref# DB6044] PMO Financial Reporting & Change Control Lead

Summary

Our client has embarked upon a £50m business and IT transformation programme following a recent corporate acquisition. They are looking for an experienced interim PMO to support the Portfolio Project Manager in estimating costs, determining project budgets and controlling costs through the lifecycle of the programme (circa 80-100 projects).


Deadline for responses

12 pm Wednesday 16th June. Responses submitted after this time may be subsequently considered but will miss the initial shortlist sent to the client.


Project Role
Reporting directly to the Portfolio Project Manager, this role will involve two main responsibilities:

1) Project Accounting - establishing the financial management process and techniques required to effectively establish and manage the project costs.

- Develop and maintain the Financial Management process to establish the budget
and control the project costs
- Establish and implement the Financial Management techniques and tools required
to control the project costs
- Support the Project Manager to establish the project budget and track the
costs
- Monitor project financial performance through the lifecycle and establish
cost variances
- Perform program financial reporting and forecasting to highlight overall
performance across each of the verticals

2) Change Control - establishing and maintaining the change management process supporting the Project Manager to analyse the change impact, estimate the costs and seeking approval from the workstream leads and Programme Director to proceed.
- Develop and maintain the Change Control process to enable scope control
- Develop and maintain the change request templates
- Support the Project Manager to perform the change control process
- Performs an impact assessment of the change request on the program across
all the verticals
- Maintains and overall change request log of all changes raised, decisions
to reject or proceed and the current status of the change

Skills and Experience

To apply for this role you will need to demonstrate the following experience and
attributes:

1) 5 years + PMO experience on £10M + transformation programmes

2) Experience of defining, implementing and maintaining project accounting processes on transformation programmes of similar size and complexity (complex, matrix-managed and challenging commercial environments)

3) Excellent communicator with the ability to build rapport with project managers and stakeholders at all levels

4) Delivery focussed, dependable, driven, capable of working under pressure to tight deadlines

Logistics
Rate: Up to £550 per day depending upon experience
Location: Sussex, Approx 30 mins from Victoria station
Duration: 6 months +
Start: 1-2 weeks

Please use the "Contact us" button above to email David Bowen, quoting "BLOG REF: DB6044" for more information.

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