PMO Portfolio Controller

PMO Portfolio Controller

Location: Jersey City, NJ
Duration : 6 months with possible contract to hire

Description:
The PMO Portfolio Controller is responsible for financials, planning and organizing technical project teams, in the creation and expansion of quality Insurance products and capabilities.

Specific responsibilities include:
Accountable for the Digital Organization programs budgets and financials, taking corrective action as needed. In cadence with Finance team to review actuals, reconcile and provide quarterly forecasts and estimates to Leadership. Coordinate and provide guidance to Team Leads for work-in-progress (WIP) accounting, and fixed assets (FA) amortization schedules.
Participate in YoY Financial planning with Finance, CIOs and Leadership.
Manage resource pools and coordinate activities across multiple projects.
As an influential leader, serve as point of contact for escalations, project issues, risks and resource constraints. Facilitate resolution to conflicts and disagreements.
At the Digital Organization level, obtain talent, execute NDAs, MSAs, SOWs and CRs. Accountable to ensure compliance of vendor partner SLAs, mitigate work-at-risk (WAR) and see contracts through execution
Coordinate project governance structure in collaboration with the PMO and client.
Clarity Lead ensure compliance, timely and accurate time-entry, project and task creation, administration and tracking
Solid understanding of the SDLC model as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices. Ability to blend practices as necessary to deliver the business requirements.

Professional Qualifications
Willingness to learn and communicate technical IT concepts to internal and external business clients
Ability to work with financial teams, business partners and contract vendors to ensure workflow
Team player with a proven background of individual contribution
Excellent interpersonal, documentation, communication, and presentation skills
Ability to react to and provide ad-hoc reports and updates

Preferred Technical Skills:
Solid understanding of Microsoft Office suite Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Teams and SharePoint
Financial acumen - solid understanding of P&L, cash, capital and expense
PeopleSoft, Apptio and Clarity for invoice review and approvals

Education and Training:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or equivalent working experience in finance or information technology
Main role will be tracking financials from SOW spend and correlating all the invoices received and paid.
Will need some Clarity experience and a lot of experience in Excel, pivot tables, reconciling numbers and being diligent in operations.
Set controls and put processes in place to keep track of this moving forward.
Top 3 skills would be proficiency in reconciling, Excel, financial acumen and working cross functionally with leads from other groups on validation.
Accounting skills would be a plus.
Main focus is on financial, resource management(on the ground) and budget planning.
This person will be successful if they can give a precise view on operation metrics, a handle on payments going out, tracking clarity hours being entered compared to what is being billed to keep budget up to date and forecasting.

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Last updated on Nov 3, 2023