Project Office Manager

JOBstream is looking for a Project Office Manager.

Technical knowledge - required:
- Prince2, CMMi, Project Management Experience (Must have Prince 2 Practitioner or PMP)
- MSP and P3O knowledge
- Microsoft Project Proficiency

Language - required:
NL-ENG

Description tasks employee:
Progress Tracking and Reporting:
- Define Reporting Calendar in line with communication plan
- Adopt or decide on report format/s to be used (existing) or decide on report formats to be used or design program specific report formats as required and develop reporting guidelines
- Track, analyze and report project status (planned versus actual)- effort, cost, schedule, milestone, KPI, business impacts, resources and related forecasts
- Verify information against base lined artifacts like PrID, PID, PMP, CFS and MSP
- Checks the Communication Plan for any other recipients of a status report and sends it out
- Trigger any Risk or Issue based on deviations in plan

Change & Configuration Management:
- Create the project Configuration Management (CM) Plan
- Identify the program/project configuration items (CIs)
- Create the Library Management System (LMS) in SharePoint
- Authorize the work product baselines
- Perform Status Accounting
- Perform Configuration Management Audits
- Support in administration of change management of all base lined CIs
- Review and Approve changes to Configuration Items

Metrics Coordination:
- Define Program/Project specific KPIs based on Program and organization information needs
- Consolidate Information from all Projects
- Analyze information and identifies trends for early-warnings or positive impact
- Prepares Metrics part of Program-level Bi-weekly report
- Ensures that the report is communicated to Program Team and actions are identified for deviation or special events
- Provides feedback to the central PMO/PO team on measurement and suggests changes

Process Assurance:
- Assist Program/Project Managers to prepare and review the Quality Management Plan at Program/Project level
- Provide inputs to the Program Manager / Implementation Manager in creating Process Assurance Plan
- Verifying adherence to the AMS Standards, Processes and Procedures as per Process Assurance plan
- Verifying that all planned inspections and tests have taken place prior to release of Projects team deliverables as per Process Assurance plan
- Identifying, reporting and tracking any Projects non-conformances to agreed standards, plans and procedures
- Identifying, reporting and tracking any corrective action required on the Projects
- Supporting continuous quality improvement on the Projects

Risk & Issue Management:
- Coordinate set up of tools required based on PMO standards
- Educate team members on adherence to process and usage of tools
- Monitor the Risk and Issue management and evaluate effectiveness of mitigation/corrective actions
- Perform Quality checks on the process adherence and assist team in closing the gaps through corrective actions

Financial Controlling:
- Analyze budget versus Actuals and advise the Program manager on any deviation in relation to the deliverables of the program
- Revision of Business case, as applicable
- Allocate General Ledger items to projects and review correctness of booking lines
- Validate project spend
- Monitor mutations in resource administration
- Administration of Commitments
- Report PO volume variances
- Report on project financials

Financial Planning:
- Provide support in set up of the financials of Governance documentation (PID's, PRID, Change requests, etc)
- Perform Cost Benefit Analysis to be translated in a CFS
- Advise and support the Program manager in setting up the financial business case
- Support the Program manager in calculating and validating the baseline impact
- Set up resource administration
- Set up contract administration
- Define Reporting Calendar in line with the Communication Plan