Regulatory Reporting PMO

About Us:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It's how we've contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services - and our open-access model - we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

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Role Description:

The Regulatory Reporting PMO Manager is responsible for overseeing the Project Management Office (PMO) functions within a Portfolio. This role ensures that all projects are managed efficiently, align with strategic goals, and are delivered on time and within budget. The PMO Manager provides governance, support, and strategic direction to project teams, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

Role Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Governance and Risk Management:

• Ensures adherence to LSEG Group Standards for governance and risk management, implementing best practices and compliance measures.
• Collaborates with Portfolio and Delivery Managers to identify, assess, and manage risks within the portfolio.
• Ensure governance procedures are adhered to by the project managers including all project artefacts maintained throughout the project lifecycle (plans, resourcing profiles, cost plans, benefits schedules, RAID items, Change Requests and status reports) are up to date, accurate and follow Group quality standards.

Financial Management:

• Manages the annual investment planning / budget cycle including challenge to benefits cases and business outcomes where not clear
• Conducts regular financial reviews to track key financial metrics and ensure budget adherence.
• Support project budget tracking, including actual and forecasted expenditure and accounting for variances
• Create purchase requisitions as required and ensure all statements of work are support by an approved purchase order

Dependency Management:

• Identifies dependencies within the portfolio, including inter-project dependencies and external dependencies.
• Documents dependencies clearly, maintaining an up-to-date dependency register that is accessible to all stakeholders.

Resource Management:

• Monitors and tracks the portfolio pipeline to provide accurate data on resource demand and supply.
• Works with various partners to forecast resource needs and adjust plans accordingly.
• Weekly timesheet adherence tracking.
• Support the delivery resource plan across the project lifecycle, ensuring accurate rate cards are used and placeholder roles are converted to named resources.

Reporting:

• Prepares comprehensive portfolio status reports, highlighting progress, major risks, issues, and changes in scope and resources.
• Distributes reports to management and key stakeholders to keep them informed of portfolio developments.
• Provide internal communications to all partners across the portfolio celebrating successes
• Work with the central portfolio team to respond to requests within required timelines

Portfolio Board Material Preparation and Secretariat Duties:

• Compiles and prepares the Portfolio board pack, ensuring all necessary documentation and information are included.
• Acts as the secretariat for portfolio board meetings, organising agendas, minutes, and follow-up actions.

Change Management

• Identify change requests that may be needed and ensure these are formally raised and approved

Portfolio Health Checks

• Conduct regular portfolio health checks, focussing on completeness, accuracy and quality Process Improvement.
• Continuously evaluate and improve PMO processes and methodologies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness

Induction and Onboarding:

• Facilitates the induction process for new joiners, ensuring they are integrated smoothly into the portfolio team.
• Provides training and orientation sessions to familiarise new team members with portfolio processes and standards.
• Acts as a point of contact for new joiners, addressing any questions or concerns they may have.

Required Skills:

Essential

• Strong planning, organisational, and coaching skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the proven ability to work effectively with all organisational levels
• Excellent at managing and influencing a wide network of partners, including senior management, who can influence and build relationships
• Willing and able to challenge customers and various collaborators to better understand their needs
• Expert knowledge of financial, risk, and project management methodologies & tools.
• Understands different approaches to project management (e.g. Agile, Waterfall etc.) and ensures flexibility to deliver and complete within different ways of working.
• Excellent documentation skills; ability to create high quality steering committee materials
• More than 5 years of project, programme, or portfolio management experience

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events
• All LSEG colleagues with at least one year's continuous service, who become parents, are now entitled to at least 26 weeks' paid leave, and the option to return to work on a phased basis, in relation with specific company's policy and guidelines

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone's race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

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