Compliance PMO Lead

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To support change delivery managers in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that project management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives. 

Accountabilities

• Support to change delivery managers, ensuring their programme is compliant with the Barclays Control Framework, including oversight of controls and governance standards.
• Creation and implementation of standardised PMO processes and methodologies that are aligned with controls and governance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects.  .
• Monitoring of project performance, including tracking of project progress, identification of risks assumptions, issues and dependencies, and creation of report on project status to senior management.
• Support of project documentation, including maintenance of project plans, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that project documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
• Facilitation of project governance, including ensuring that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives, and that project risks assumptions, issues and dependencies are managed effectively.
• Provision of change management framework training to project managers and other stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver successful projects.  .
• Continuous improvement of project management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve project delivery.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join Barclays as a Compliance PMO Lead, VP within the Functions Technology which sits within Group Technology and provides technology solutions for the firm’s Functions including Compliance, Human Resources, Internal Audit, Corporate Secretariat, Corporate Relations, BX Management Office, Group Sustainability, Centers of Excellence, Legal, Procurement, Identity and Access Management and CRES Technologies. Our mission is to deliver a simplified, automated, and integrated ecosystem of tools and applications enabling our Functions to increase operational efficiency and reduce risk. Functions Technology PMO partners with the PM community to establish and maintain a change portfolio of work that assures alignment to the Change Delivery Management (CDM) standards. Specifically, establishing clarity of roles and responsibilities in governing change portfolios, providing effective oversight, reporting, and monitoring progress of change portfolios, and providing effective oversight and management of delivery processes. Compliance PMO Lead, VP role will support the Compliance PMO function. The individual will have governance ownership for a set of projects and will work closely with the PMs to deliver to the CDM standards, reducing execution risk for the firm.

To be successful in this role, you should:

• Partner with PMs on governance requirements, including the completion of outlined business cases (OBCs), detailed business cases (DBCs), and Control Environment Risk Profile Assessments (CERPA); check and challenge to meet the highest governance standards
• Establish and maintain portfolio governance meetings; partner with senior leadership to set agenda, produce meeting materials, and take minutes; present and escalate governance issues and drive remediation
• Be the subject matter expert (SME) on projects covered in partnership with PMs, including financials and delivery requirements; train PMs on new governance standards and implement new processes
• Be the Navigator Champion for the Functions Technology team, responsible for Navigator queries and maintenance (new joiner/new project set-ups), including PMs training on new Navigator standards

Other highly valued skills include:

• Partner with all levels of the organization to govern project execution; interact with senior leadership across Functions Technology and the Business Function
• Ability to escalate, influence, and assert accountability to meet deadlines
• Excellent presentation and communication skills that resonate with different stakeholders
• Change Management expertise, knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools
• Ability to multi-task and work under tight deadlines

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is in Whippany, New Jersey