Your next challenge:
As a member of the Bank Project Portfolio Management Team, you will manage one or more portfolios of projects. This ranges the entire lifecycle from the project inflow, business case formulation, monitoring of its implementation and a follow-up of benefits realisation post implementation. You will strongly liaise with and act as a focal point for a wide variety of stakeholders such as project requestors, Compliance/Regulatory Affairs, the Delivery organisation, Finance, Strategy and ExCo members to guarantee up-to-date and qualitative Portfolio Management processes and deliverables (reporting).
- Drive the Inflow process of project ideas through the existing governance process
- Pro-active follow-up of the project ideas pipeline in respect of the existing intake process while ensuring the organization of qualification sessions and providing a sound scoring of new project ideas based on Portfolio parameters. This may include taking the lead on studies and/or coordinating the estimation.
- Ensure the continuity by monitoring the subsequent implementation projects and their benefits realization once project has been delivered
- Partnering closely with business and strategy partners to analyze new projects and readiness for governance decisions and providing transparency of portfolio investments
- Monitoring the Program/Project Portfolio, tracking its evolution and anticipating risks and issues for mitigation and resolution
- Identifying project/program interdependencies and ensuring a close follow-up to enable efficient and effective delivery
- Ensuring the follow-up of Portfolio, Program and Project budget/expenditure in liaison with the Finance Department
- Performing scenario analysis to quantify the impact of decisions on projects/programs on the overall Portfolio
- Monitoring the change capacity (availability), its allocation and proposing preventive/corrective actions on capacity issues
- Producing reports on the status of Project Idea and Program/Project Portfolios and providing qualitative and quantitative assessments related to these statuses. Distribution of these reports to the different Governance bodies and other stakeholders within the bank for informed decisions and governance.
- Managing portfolio management artifacts, decisions, communications, metrics, and reporting.
- Contribute to the operational set-up of the bank wide project portfolio function and help implement a business case culture
- Contribute to the continuous improvement Portfolio Management processes and deliverables