Portfolio Management

Short company description

Accenture is a leading global professional services company helping the world’s top businesses, governments, and organizations build their digital core, reinvent with data and AI, optimize operations, and accelerate growth. We are a talent‑ and innovation‑led company of approximately 779,000 people in more than 120 countries.
We’ve made 15 consecutive appearances in Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, reflecting our commitment to putting people first.

Requirements

PRINCIPAL SCOPE:
 Coordinates IT projects or IT systems involvement in inter-departmental projects and ensures their implementation with respect to quality, purpose, budget and time conditions

Responsibilities

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
 Define the overall project scope with the project sponsor/client and key project/program stakeholders (e.g., delivery leadership team, solution architects etc.)
 Manage the program/project from scoping and requirements through deployment for an end-to-end project or specific area of a project (e.g. project estimation, build or test)
 Develop program/project/phase plans and estimates through negotiations with the project sponsor, key stakeholders, and/or client as required
 Assures allocation of resources to build an effective project team
 Determine needed deliverables, high level approach, project profile, responsible teams, overall project schedule/timeline, critical path by deliverable, productivity improvements, overall risks and planning assumptions
 Constant monitoring the projects according to costs, timescale and standards
 Performs project-based Vendor management in order to manage external resources for project implementation
 Coordinates intermediary project phases for assigned projects to minimize deviation of deliverables and resources from scope and deadlines
 Manage all change requests, validate all budget/schedule impacts, obtain the stakeholders' commitment, and communicate approved changes to all teams
 Proactively managing and monitoring execution of deliverables and status in an effective manner
 Coordinate issues/change requests in order to manage established project scope
 Escalate issues to management which cannot be resolved at the program/project level
 Creates and maintains on-going project documentation (status reports, risk registers, issues registers, resource utilization, project plans, etc.) to monitor the project status
 Use Project Management tools, templates and applications, in order to uphold standardization
 Informs the project sponsor/client upon status of projects, periodically/at request to offer a clear and accurate picture related to the project status