PMO Financials

Join Barclays as a PMO Financials within Functions Technology. You will be responsible for delivering tech solutions to various firm Functions (e.g., Compliance, HR, Legal, Procurement). You’ll collaborate with the PM community to manage and align change portfolios to Change Delivery Management (CDM) standards, oversee project financials, and ensure financial governance, reducing execution risk for the company.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Producing financial reporting of Functions Technology book of work from a bottom-up and top-down perspective, aligned with Finance reporting , and providing business stakeholder commentary for significant variances.
• Producing all PMO financial reporting for end user, including the completion of Financials for the Detailed Business Cases (DBCs).
• Managing the weekly timesheet submission process in the project reporting tool, Navigator, and tracking individual utilisation metrics.
• Producing and maintaining project financial forecasts for Annual Mid-Term Planning (MTP) and Ad Hoc Outlooks (OL).
• Training PMs on new financial standards and implementing updated processes.
• Acting as the subject matter expert (SME) on project financials, responding to all financial inquiries, and ensuring PMs adhere to financial governance.

To excel in this role, you should have:

• Experience in financial reporting and analysis.
• Proficiency in VBA, SQL, and experience working with macros/database.
• Ability to multitask and work effectively under tight deadlines.
• Experience in governance or PMO functions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience with Executive-level interactions, and excellent presentation abilities.

Additional highly valued skills:

• Ability to escalate, influence, and assert accountability to meet deadlines.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• College degree.
• Proactive decision-maker.
• Experience with technology.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The successful candidate will be based in Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To support change delivery managers in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that project management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives. 

Accountabilities

• Support to change delivery managers, ensuring their programme is compliant with the Barclays Control Framework, including oversight of controls and governance standards.
• Creation and implementation of standardised PMO processes and methodologies that are aligned with controls and governance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects.
• Monitoring of project performance, including tracking of project progress, identification of risks assumptions, issues and dependencies, and creation of report on project status to senior management.
• Support of project documentation, including maintenance of project plans, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that project documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
• Facilitation of project governance, including ensuring that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives, and that project risks assumptions, issues and dependencies are managed effectively.
• Provision of change management framework training to project managers and other stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver successful projects.
• Continuous improvement of project management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve project delivery.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions / business divisions.
• Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and / or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies / procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.