Senior PMO Lead

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

To provide professional advice, guidance and support across the project portfolio. Working with the Head of PMO to implement and maintain an enterprise PMO ensuring a uniform approach to Project Management.

Duties and Key Responsibilities

• Work with the Portfolio and Change team to facilitate effective management of the project portfolio.
• Ensure the PMO provides support across the project portfolio throughout the project lifecycle, including:
  • Preparation and maintenance of project documentation.
  • Preparation and maintenance of risk, issues and actions logs.
  • Co-ordination of project resources, including scheduling and escalation resolution.
  • Production of accurate and timely reporting across the portfolio.
  • Production of accurate and timely resource schedules and project billing forecasts.
  • Ensure accurate time recording and tracking.
  • Management of Change Control authorisation process.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the project management framework, processes and standards.
• Coaching and mentoring junior team members.

The duties and responsibilities outlined above are to be regarded as broad areas of responsibility and do not necessarily detail all tasks which the post holder may be required to perform.

Key Relationships

• Department Heads and Senior Management Team.
• Programme and Project Managers.
• Work stream leads.
• Government Department leads

Qualifications & Technical Job Requirements

Essential

• Recognised Project Management qualification or demonstrable experience.
• Microsoft Office Suite, especially Word/Excel/Visio.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Requirements

Essential

• Experience of working in a PMO/project environment.
• Experience of leading and developing teams.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Good analytical, numerical and logic skills.
• Previous experience of identifying and managing risks and pro-actively addressing problems.
• Maintaining Reporting and Governance Frameworks.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Presentation and facilitation skills.
• Documentation configuration management.

Desirable

• Prior experience of leading a PMO.
• Prior experience of enterprise wide resource management.
• Working with Government Departments.

Further Information

• Some travel and overnight stays may be required.
• Successful candidates will be expected to attend any required training courses to ensure that the Portfolio and Change Centre of Excellence has marketable skills.

What We Offer

• Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
• All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
• Health and Wellbeing - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
• Employee discounts - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
• Flexible Benefits - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
• Time Off - Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
• Winning together - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.
• Learning & Development - Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks