As a Senior PMO Consultant – Banking Transformation, you will work as an embedded member of the client’s Project Management Office, strengthening governance and delivery across a portfolio of strategic banking transformation initiatives. You will combine senior-level PMO expertise with techno-functional support to improve planning, oversight, decision-making, and execution readiness.
What You’ll Do and How You’ll Succeed
PMO & Portfolio Governance
- Support the PMO Head in planning, governing, monitoring, and reporting strategic transformation initiatives.
- Establish and maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, actions, decisions, and other standard PMO controls.
- Monitor initiative progress and proactively surface delivery risks, issues, dependencies, and required management actions.
- Maintain consistency and quality across project documentation, governance processes, status reporting, and vendor deliverables.
- Coordinate across business, technology, project teams, vendors, and other stakeholders to support effective portfolio delivery.
- Prepare high-quality PMO reports, dashboards, steering committee materials, and executive and management presentations.
Initiative & Techno-Functional Support
- Conduct current-state assessments and support the definition of business, functional, and technical requirements for prioritised initiatives.
- Develop initiative plans, evaluation frameworks, recommendations, and materials that support management decision-making.
- Review technology solutions, vendor proposals, architecture, integration considerations, and operating-model implications with relevant specialists.
- Support vendor and solution evaluations, shortlisting, workshops, and coordination.
- Provide structured PMO and techno-functional support across banking transformation initiatives, including core banking, digital banking, payments, data and analytics, fintech, and related technology programmes.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Work closely with the PMO Head, senior management, business and technology teams, project leads, and external vendors.
- Facilitate effective communication, follow-through, and escalation across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Produce clear, concise, executive-level documentation that supports management and steering committee decision-making.
We’d Love to Hear From You If...
Experience
- You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, Management, or a related discipline.
- You have at least eight (8) years of relevant experience in PMO, programme/project governance, technology transformation, or related roles.
- You have strong and demonstrable experience working within an established PMO function, preferably supporting multiple concurrent projects or a transformation portfolio.
- You bring significant Banking or Financial Services experience and a good understanding of banking technology and transformation environments.
- You have hands-on experience in project and portfolio planning and tracking, RAID management, governance, executive reporting, stakeholder coordination, and project documentation.
- You have supported major technology or business transformation programmes involving multiple business, technology, and vendor stakeholders.
- Experience in requirements definition, vendor or solution evaluation, or other techno-functional project activities is highly desirable.
Technical Expertise
- You have strong knowledge of PMO methodologies, governance frameworks, project controls, and reporting.
- You can understand business and technology requirements and work effectively across functional and technical teams.
- You bring strong analytical, planning, documentation, and problem-solving capability.
Ways of Working
- You are confident managing senior stakeholders and external vendors.
- You communicate clearly and can prepare high-quality executive and steering committee materials.
- You can manage multiple priorities and initiatives within a complex transformation environment.
- You are structured, proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable working independently with senior stakeholders.
Assignment Details
- Employment Type: Project-Based / Consulting Assignment
- Location: Manila, Philippines