PMO / Business Manager London / Hybrid 12-month contract £706.38 p/d Umbrella
If you're looking for a career that will help you stand out, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further. We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of PMO / Business Manager.
Role Context :
We are seeking a full-time Business Manager / PMO in London to cover maternity leave. The role holder will cover the Cash Equities Technology department (part of the wider Equities Value Stream) and support a variety of programmes running across the sub-value stream. The principal accountability of the PMO role is to carry out financial management, governance and reporting activities for the Cash Equities Technology team. Work will vary from single country through to global reach.
- Manage budget and manpower plan for global Cash Equities; work closely with programme and project managers to ensure hiring and exits are in line, review financials and spending, reforecasting and ensuring projects and overall portfolio spend is within budget
- Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ie COO office comprising Business Management, Finance and Procurement, Product Owner, HR, external agencies etc
- Provide guidance and enforce discipline on processes such time booking and provide advice on tools such as Clarity, asset capitalisation guidance
- Help with the running of the programme management office and disseminating new processes coming from the COO office
- Work closely with the heads of Cash Equities their PMs on the year-end budget, submission of hardware and software headwinds, ad hoc queries from stakeholders
Requirements:
- Financial management/Business Management experience, including:
o Budget management
o Resource management
o Third party management
o Invoice processing
- Highly analytical, organised, structured and results driven
- Experience is highly advantageous
- Flexibility to adapt to challenging priorities and to meet strict deadline
- Excellent communication skills in English both spoken and written
- Ability to work in a complex and global environment.
- Excellent attention to detail
- Knowledge of Equities and motivation towards understanding further the Equities business
- Experience of working at a departmental level (rather than programme centric)