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.

Key Responsibilities
  • 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.

Required Experience
  • 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.

Technical Skills
  • 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


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