Job Summary:

The Project Manager / PMO will perform hands-on PMO activities supporting banking technology, transformation, regulatory, and business change programs. This delivery-focused role requires direct ownership and execution of project governance, reporting, financial tracking, resource management, RAID management, planning, and delivery activities. The individual will work closely with Project Managers, Program Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, delivery teams, business stakeholders, technology teams, and vendors to maintain visibility into program performance and ensure delivery commitments are met across geographically distributed teams.

Key Responsibilities
• Perform hands-on PMO activities, personally owning and executing project plans, governance artifacts, reporting, financial trackers, resource plans, and other PMO deliverables.
• Work closely with Project Managers, Program Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams to track project plans, sprint commitments, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Prepare and maintain weekly project status reports, dashboards, management presentations, and executive-level reporting.
• Own and maintain RAID logs covering Risks, Actions, Issues, and Dependencies, proactively following up with owners and escalating items requiring management attention.
• Coordinate and support project governance forums, Steering Committee meetings, program reviews, and working-group meetings.
• Prepare meeting agendas, presentations, minutes, decisions, and action tracking for governance and delivery forums.
• Support Agile delivery by participating in relevant Agile ceremonies and tracking sprint progress, impediments, dependencies, and commitments.
• Consolidate information from multiple workstreams to provide a clear view of overall program status, key risks, upcoming milestones, and areas requiring attention.
• Perform hands-on tracking of project financials, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, resource costs, and variances.
• Track resource requirements, onboarding and offboarding, allocation, utilization, and capacity across project teams.
• Maintain project plans, governance artifacts, documentation repositories, change requests, decision logs, and other required PMO documentation.
• Work with business, technology, operations, vendors, and other stakeholders to drive action closure and ensure delivery commitments are met.
• Identify gaps in project governance or execution and proactively work with project leadership to address them.
• Support continuous improvement of PMO processes, templates, governance standards, and reporting practices.
• Work effectively with geographically distributed teams and support delivery from client locations when required.

Required Qualifications
• 5-10 years of overall experience in PMO, Project Management, Program Management, or Project Coordination roles.
• Hands-on PMO experience with the ability to personally create and maintain project plans, RAID logs, status reports, dashboards, meeting minutes, financial trackers, resource plans, and other governance artifacts.
• 5+ years of experience within Banking or Financial Services supporting technology, transformation, regulatory, or business change initiatives.
• 5+ years of experience working in an Agile delivery environment, with a strong understanding of Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog management, dependencies, and delivery tracking.
• Strong experience with project governance, RAID management, milestone and dependency tracking, action management, and executive reporting.
• Experience preparing management-level presentations and communicating project status, risks, issues, and dependencies to senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting project financial management, resource tracking, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to independently prepare high-quality project reports and presentations.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience with project planning or portfolio management tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Clarity, ServiceNow SPM/PPM, or similar platforms.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with business and technology stakeholders across different geographies.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 50% to Brazil based on project requirements.