Project Management Officer (PMO)

Overview

Support the Project Manager in planning, tracking and reporting on projects across M&G plc, including maintaining project records, managing risks and dependencies, and producing status reports.

What you'll do

• Facilitate team planning sessions to agree plans, milestones, deliverables and inter and intra-programme dependencies.
• Assist project teams in setting goals and planning day-to-day activities.
• Develop and maintain detailed activity-based project plans and resource requirements using MS Project or other PC-based applications as appropriate.
• Liaise closely with project teams across M&G plc to establish an accurate view of project progress.
• Review and assess reports to identify progress against plans.
• Support the Project Manager in identifying risks and issues arising from project teams and maintain project records and RAID logs.
• Support the Project Manager in identifying and effectively managing project dependencies across the programme.
• Reinforce prescribed governance and good practice, and enforce and track quality assurance of deliverables prior to sign-off.
• Prepare weekly and monthly team status reports describing progress achieved and identifying risks and issues for escalation.
• Assist with preparation of monthly reports for stakeholders as required.
• Prepare project documentation.
• Organise training sessions for new joiners.
• Resolve issues and grievances reported by PMs with respect to ServiceNow.
• Provide an automated consolidated tracker of time efforts, if required.
• Chase and follow up PMs and projects for closure and goods acceptance.
• Manage key stakeholders at all levels within the business and, where required, external vendors for procurement of project management tools.

What you'll need

• Knowledge of project management lifecycle methodology.
• Confidence and excellent communication skills.
• Solid organisational skills including attention to detail.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Excellent presentation and public speaking skills.
• Experience with tools such as ServiceNow and Oracle.
• Proven working experience of minimum 8 years leading small size projects.
• Experience working with international stakeholders, preferably from the UK.
• Experience of managing projects involving Application Management, Infrastructure or Finance domain.
• Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred but not required).
• PRINCE2 certification is a must.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Nice to have

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and establishing professional rapport.
• Good negotiating skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Commercial awareness and third-party management capability.
• Any Microsoft cloud certifications.
• Investment banking related certifications.

Details

• Location: Mumbai.