An excellent opportunity to play a leading role in establishing a new team that plays a key role in the successful delivery of the strategy for the Commodities and Global Markets (CGM) Technology team at Macquarie.
Your proven experience managing governance and performance for a portfolio across a geographically dispersed technology team will be instrumental as you navigate a wide range of stakeholders within the Business and Technology Delivery teams.
You will thrive in a fast-paced, project delivery focused environment and draw on your collaborative and exceptional analytical skills to achieve optimal outcomes for your team and your stakeholders in an area with a significant book of work. You will think critically to understand and navigate business challenges and use your exceptional communication skills to negotiate and manage the team through ambiguity as you proactively identify areas for improvement.
**Responsibilities include**:
- Ensure governance alignment for all portfolios; provide monitoring and escalation paths for program related issues or risks, or cross portfolio themes that require attention
- Conduct due diligence on project submissions including reviewing business case information
- Conduct and manage internal health checks and collate insights from post project implementation reviews (i.e. ensure project delivery is within approved funding, milestones and project parameters as defined in the business case)
- Validate, uplift and provide quality portfolio assurance and feedback including progress updates, data quality, achievements, program health including time, cost and quality requirements, risks and issues.
- Provide regular reporting to key executive stakeholders to ensure program level information is communicated promptly and facilitates high level decision making.
- Coordinate and execute reporting outputs and activities across the team
- Consolidation, standardisation, automation of Reporting and metrics
- Provision of supporting commentary on selected Reports
- Design, develop, document, test, go-live, maintain and retire Reports used for Analysis
- Act as a contact point and coordinate information requests, requirements and enquiries
**To be successful in this role you will have**:
- Solid experience (minimum 5 years) working in a PMO function or in a Delivery Assurance role with a focus on project/performance analysis in a complex, cross-functional corporate services environment.
- End to end Portfolio assurance skills/experience - across the project life cycle and an ability to work collaboratively in a matrix environment
- Creativity and visualisation skills to enable the effective communication of concepts to wide audience (e.g. Excel/PowerPoint proficiency is essential, and PowerBI skills extremely desirable)
- Capability in distilling complex messages into tight communication messaging
- Prior experience writing high-quality policies, guides / frameworks
- Knowledge of reporting and system tools, and technical experience in relevant systems
- Possess working knowledge of management reporting systems and business intelligence concepts
- Be flexible and adaptable in a dynamic environment where priorities shift as we manage across multiple projects and hard deadlines.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills with demonstrable experience influencing across Technology and non-technical stakeholders.
- Have a strong sense of ownership, accountability and integrity as you help shape this new function for CGM Tech
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