Head of PMO – £650 p/d INSIDE IR35 in City of London, London

Head of PMO
£650 p/d INSIDE IR35
6 months
2 days a week on site in central London

Primary responsibilities

• As head of PMO, lead and develop the PMO team, ensuring efficient resource management, effective monitoring of projects such that cost, quality, efficiency & benefits realisation are controlled and achieved
• Work with the PMOs to promote standardisation of reporting and tooling to support effective Project Management, continually improving the ways of working
• Responsible for the reporting and management of budgets across IT projects, working closely with Finance IT Controller to review month on month trends, resolve mis-bookings and highlight any negative trends actual vs. budget
• Work closely with Project Managers to assist them in navigating through the Project Stage Gates and ensure artefacts and approvals are produced and submitted in a timely fashion
• Manage the administrative activities required to facilitate a demanding project portfolio including management of renewals of temporary staff, reporting and analysis, including headcount tracking
• Facilitate and provide secretariat duties to a key governance IT meeting, the Change & Implementation Committee with C-suite stakeholders and Senior Business heads
• Additional preparation of key management reporting packs. This includes updates on project schedule and progress, financial status, issues/risks and dependencies to senior MHI and global Mizuho management audiences.
• Support annual budget process, co-ordinating the exercise across IT heads and in close liaison with Finance IT Controller
• Support the head of Business Change as well as CIO and Deputy CIO in their roles, including, preparation of presentation materials, briefing documents and other ad-hoc executive materials
• Ongoing improvement and evolution of reporting packs in conjunction with the head of business change, the CIO and the Deputy CIO

Regulatory Responsibilities
Conduct Rules
All employees are required to fully comply at all times with the Code of Conduct, and in particular the First Tier Individual Conduct Rules. As such employees must:
1. Act with integrity.
2. Act with due skill, care and intelligence.
3. Be open and co-operative with the FCA and PRA and other regulators.
4. Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly.
5. Observe proper standards of market conduct.

For further information, please refer to the COCON Sourcebook of the FCA Rules and the Conduct Part of the PRA Rulebook.

Reporting of Breaches
You are required to report to Compliance any suspected or actual breaches of the Conduct Rules described above as soon as they are discovered.

In Respect of Training
The Company has appropriate training and competence procedures and training programmes in place across those business areas for which you are responsible to ensure that the Company's employees:·
* are and remain competent for the work they do;
* are appropriately supervised and their competence regularly reviewed; and
* the level of competence is appropriate to the Company's business.

You are responsible, in accordance with the Company's training and competence policy for achieving and maintaining a sufficient level of competence for the role you undertake and for your own professional development in your relevant area of expertise.

Policies and Procedures
You will comply with the Company's policies and procedures, in particular, those set out in the Company's Staff Handbook, Compliance Manual and Acceptable Use Policy.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.