PMO

**Job Title**:PMO

**Corporate Grade: BA4**

**Location: Pune**

**About Barclays**

**Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.**

**Risk and Control Objective**

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

**Working Flexibly**

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a career, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

**Introduction**:
To manage Execution Risk effectively, deliver on our Group strategy and satisfy all our stakeholders, we must deliver our initiatives consistently and transparently. Programme Management Office (PMO) colleagues ensure initiative delivery is managed in line with the relevant Policies and Standards, using standard processes and tooling to improve the level and likelihood of successful outcomes. They also help to ensure all stakeholders are aware of initiative progress and have the information they need to make the right decisions in a timely manner.

**What will you be doing?**

PMOs ensure initiative delivery is managed efficiently and effectively, in line with relevant policies and standards.
- Should be able to manage the end to end governance of the project by working closely with the project /program manager.
- Should be actively involved and performing Project initiation, Project tracking, Risk capturing, status updates to stakeholders.
- Should be involved in the finance tracking and reporting
- Should be involved in the new resource onboarding, leaver / movers process and goverenance.
- Should be able to report at the project and Portfolio level.
- Maintaining and actively managing initiative documentation, facilitating key governance fora, reinforcing the accountabilities of key stakeholders, helping to ensure that decisions are made by the right people and based on the right information. This includes ensuring that the Accountable Executive and other key stakeholders / fora (e.g. Project or Programme Forum, Portfolio Governance Board) have relevant and timely initiative MI (including status and any relevant risks or issues)
- Safeguarding effective change control processes, ensuring the business case is updated and managed through appropriate governance
- Supporting the Programme and / or Project Managers in determining, monitoring and managing workforce and financial requirements, drawing insights from available information to inform daily delivery - such as challenging progress, prioritisation of resources or stop/start/continue decisions; tracking benefits and costs, driving budget efficiency
- Supporting the Programme and / or Project Managers in assessing the risks from the change, including the tracking of thematic issues, early identification and management of RAIDs; and completing a Change Risk Impact Assessment (CRIA) where required
- Supporting the Programme and / or Project Managers in in tracking outcomes, ensuring that planned outputs deliver the agreed outcomes and that the outcomes remain relevant; also enabled through provision of timely MI and estimating, scheduling and planning activity

PMOs have an important role to play in providing constructive challenge to Programmes and Projects, not only providing the information initiatives need to make the right decisions, but also helping initiative leads to pre-empt any issues and course correct where required.
- Acting in partnership with Project and / or Programme Manager, using their experience and insight to help challenge efficiency; to maintain a focus on delivering outcomes; to predict potential blockers and risks; and to deploy appropriate governance and oversight of delivery (including the Project and/or Programme Forum)
- Driving best practice delivery in line with the relevant Policies and Standards through coaching and educating delivery teams on what good looks like; monitoring and driving improvement in data quality and timeliness of repo