PMO

Job Title: PMO
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

Hybrid Working

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role 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?
- 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
- 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)

What we’re looking for:
1. Conduct, compliance and professionalism: The ability to align with the Barclays Way - the Code of Conduct for the firm - meeting the expected values and behaviours governing all aspects of colleagues' working relationships with all stakeholders.
2. Stakeholder and communications management: The ability to effectively communicate with, influence and manage stakeholders at all levels, taking account of their levels of influence and interest. This includes identifying, addressing and resolving differences between individuals and/or interest groups, using suitable channels for achieving clear outcomes, consensus and conflict resolution.
3. Resource management: This is the ability to develop, implement and update demand plans for initiative resources (i.e. the workforce, products and services required to deliver the agreed outcomes). For programmes or portfolios, ongoing monitoring enables escalation of resource risks via the appropriate governance.
4. Financial management: The ability to input into the relevant financial planning processes, agreeing budgets for change initiatives before developing a granular view of costs versus agreed outcomes and timings. This includes being cost / value aware, tracking costs versus budget, reforecasting when necessary, explaining variances and identifying risks. For programmes and portfolios, this includes monitoring aggregated cost profiles against budget, balancing under / over spend as appropriate.
5. Governance and reporting: The ability to establish and operate a governance model that defines clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for oversight of the execution of change initiatives. This includes honest/ transparent assessment of initiative status; the ability