This is a great opportunity for an intern to join an IT team as a PMO for a Banking organisation in the City of London, to support the London technology team, including working closely with stakeholders in Paris.
The role includes tracking status of programme deliverables and milestones; supporting the adoption of the project lifecycle and deliverables; programme level risk and issue coordination; monitoring the status of projects transitioning into normal service; coordination of the regular project and programme level reporting cycles; co-ordination of project.
The PMO intern will work closely with the streams in London to collate information for reporting and provide general assistance.
Planning, Reporting & Control:
* Work with the Head of Global Markets IT, UK to develop the IT Project Standards guide, seeking contributions from wider groups, Development Team and Service Implementation Lead to ensure that the Standards meet best practice
* Build up a repository of project templates both technical and management to support the Project teams – work with Head of Global Markets IT to implement a best practice approach to manage deliverables and timeliness
* Continue to evolve the processes and templates throughout the project lifecycle
* Implement project standards across all projects in the portfolio
* Update and administer the programme plan as required using reports from multiple stakeholders through meetings and workshops
* Prepare consolidated material from project reports for monthly review
* Complete and distribute bi-weekly and monthly portfolio level reports, create and manage the RAID log and the commodities dashboard
* Ensure all enhancements / bugs and change requests are managed and tracked within JIRA. JIRA will be the golden source of reporting and will be used for prioritization of the Book of Work.
Project Management:
* Manage the portfolio-level benefits register, ensuring that all benefits are planned, monitored and benefits realisation is tracked
* Support implementation of the quality strategy, including any processes and templates, across all initiatives
* Implement the change control process across all projects and portfolios.
* Document minutes of meeting and open action items post the various meetings and distribute these in a timely fashion clearly indicating the open action items and respective owners with an ETA for resolution
* Raising and managing production incident tickets, provide follow up and report KPI’s
* Generic PMO activities, support the various streams across the Commodities IT world
* Work as a junior BA on certain initiatives to get understanding of Financial Markets.
Key Skills & Experiences:
* Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree or equivalent.
* Good written and spoken English.
* Knowledge of French would be an added advantage.
* Critical thinker with a knack to solve problems.
* Is effective in unifying and creating teams of people with disparate skills.
* Courageous and decisive, prioritises effectively, maintains a clear focus and sees action through to delivery.
* Energetic, determined, positive, goal focussed and consistent - even under pressure.