Associate Director

Mandatory Skills

This individual will be a part of the KGS based offshore delivery PMO team and work with onshore engagement teams on various Global Compliance engagements supporting clients across the globe. 

Responsibilities will include:

• Act as a lead of rapidly growing Tax PMO team
• Experience in leading PMO for Direct Tax (Corp / Partnership), Indirect Tax (SUT / VAT), Global Compliance Services, Transfer Pricing
• Take ownership of multiple Technology/ Transformation / Global & Domestic Tax Compliance engagements and programs that the team is delivering from Quality and Governance standpoint
• Coaching/mentoring of PMO resources, effectively driving performance reviews, enforcing quality standards 
• Lead resource planning and utilization activities to ensure the right resources are matched to implementation scope
• Lead strategic efforts aimed at achieving organizational & business critical goals & initiatives
• Build optimal growth capacity in collaboration with Onshore service line leaders and business partners
• Be a lead to the business by providing high growth solutions and market intelligence
• Bring subject matter expertise and thought leadership on new trend, technology and fir future readiness
• Recognize future looking opportunities and readiness of human resources
• Enable organic growth in the team through coaching and mentoring
• Build relation with enabling functions to serve as one KGS entity
• Work with the Offshore, Onshore and end client stakeholders / leadership to understand expectations on the client services / projects to be transitioned
• Estimate the budgets, resource requirement and risks associated with the process transition more accurately
• Provide assistance to Engagement Leads and team members on transition, ensure all deliverables are completed according to the agreed (comprehensive, realistic and effective) transition plans
• Monitoring and assessing the value delivered to the client throughout the project life cycle ensuring PMO planning tools and methodologies are utilized
• Leading & supporting Design, Mobilization and Execution of PMO activities for medium to large programmes, managing most of the dimensions of Project Management Office/ Programme management Office
• Supporting multiple workstreams to create a centralized PMO organization. 
• Developing and maintaining the programme management plan, integrated master schedule, weekly and monthly reporting and financial management

Primary Roles and Responsibilities 

This individual will be a part of the KGS based offshore delivery PMO team and work with onshore engagement teams on various Global Compliance engagements supporting clients across the globe. 

Responsibilities will include:

• Act as a lead of rapidly growing Tax PMO team
• Experience in leading PMO for Direct Tax (Corp / Partnership), Indirect Tax (SUT / VAT), Global Compliance Services, Transfer Pricing
• Take ownership of multiple Technology/ Transformation / Global & Domestic Tax Compliance engagements and programs that the team is delivering from Quality and Governance standpoint
• Coaching/mentoring of PMO resources, effectively driving performance reviews, enforcing quality standards 
• Lead resource planning and utilization activities to ensure the right resources are matched to implementation scope
• Lead strategic efforts aimed at achieving organizational & business critical goals & initiatives
• Build optimal growth capacity in collaboration with Onshore service line leaders and business partners
• Be a lead to the business by providing high growth solutions and market intelligence
• Bring subject matter expertise and thought leadership on new trend, technology and fir future readiness
• Recognize future looking opportunities and readiness of human resources
• Enable organic growth in the team through coaching and mentoring
• Build relation with enabling functions to serve as one KGS entity
• Work with the Offshore, Onshore and end client stakeholders / leadership to understand expectations on the client services / projects to be transitioned
• Estimate the budgets, resource requirement and risks associated with the process transition more accurately
• Provide assistance to Engagement Leads and team members on transition, ensure all deliverables are completed according to the agreed (comprehensive, realistic and effective) transition plans
• Monitoring and assessing the value delivered to the client throughout the project life cycle ensuring PMO planning tools and methodologies are utilized
• Leading & supporting Design, Mobilization and Execution of PMO activities for medium to large programmes, managing most of the dimensions of Project Management Office/ Programme management Office
• Supporting multiple workstreams to create a centralized PMO organization. 
• Developing and maintaining the programme management plan, integrated master schedule, weekly and monthly reporting and financial management

• 14- 18 years of work experience in project management in a leading professional services firm (e.g. international consulting firm, Big 4, IT Enabled Services Industry) or existing PMO captive
• Project Management/ Programme Management/ PMO experience for large transformation engagements (IT, Finance, HR, Sourcing, Procurement, Supply Chain/Operations) for European or Global Clients
• Experience in managing large scale PMO teams
• Exceptional PM/PMO delivery track record
• Understanding of offshore/onshore delivery model
• Contributes in solution reviews and drives solution growth discussions 
• Understands and controls project financials, debtors and managing resources.
• Collaborate across various in-house and cross teams and drive proposal discussions.
• Gathers business understanding and finalize blueprints to deliver the project.
• Strong presentation skills and decent executive presence and must have the ability to build innovative solutions.

Qualification:

• Post graduate degree from a reputed institute
• PMP, CAPM, Prince 2 Certification will be an added advantage