Profile Summary
Lead and develop the IT PMO function, ensuring it provides effective governance, financial management, reporting and portfolio oversight.
The role is responsible for defining what good looks like, raising standards across the PMO and driving continuous improvement. Working closely with Finance and senior IT leadership, the role will improve data quality, strengthen financial management and deliver consolidated management information and insights to support CIO decision-making.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead and evolve the IT PMO function, operating model and services.
- Define and embed best practice across governance, reporting, financial management and portfolio oversight.
- Own the production and presentation of consolidated IT management information for the CIO and senior leadership teams.
- Coordinate the IT budget process, including planning, forecasting, tracking and reporting.
- Work closely with Finance to improve financial transparency, reporting accuracy and cost management.
- Drive improvements in data quality, data governance and management information.
- Analyse, challenge and explain financial, portfolio and operational data, identifying issues, trends and opportunities.
- Lead PMO transformation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Build capability across the PMO team through coaching, mentoring and knowledge sharing.
- Influence stakeholders and drive change across the IT organisation.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- Proven experience leading or transforming a PMO function.
- Strong financial management, budgeting and forecasting experience.
- Experience coordinating and managing portfolio or CTB investment budgets.
- Experience presenting executive-level reporting and insight to senior leadership.
- Strong understanding of data quality, management information and reporting controls.
Key Behaviours and Competencies:
- Ability to interrogate complex financial and operational data and translate it into meaningful business insight.
- Strong understanding of what good looks like in a mature PMO environment.
- Demonstrable track record of driving organisational change and performance improvement.
- The successful candidate will bring experience from mature PMO environments and will be expected to raise standards, challenge existing practices, improve data quality and deliver lasting improvements across governance, reporting, financial management and portfolio oversight.
What Mizuho Can Offer You
Here at Mizuho, there are fantastic progression opportunities and clear paths to promotion. We will give you ample opportunity to affect change and to help grow our business.
In addition to the great opportunity outlined above we are also currently able to offer:
- Competitive starting salary, plus discretionary bonus
- Non-contributory pension
- 27 days’ annual leave
- Core working hours*
- Hybrid working - office and home based*
- Virtual GP
- Wellbeing benefits, including Mental Health Allies and First Aiders
*For applicable roles only
At Mizuho, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like part-time, job-sharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purpose-led culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs.
We are committed to supporting equality and diversity, and seek to create a workplace that is fully inclusive. We welcome applications from all sections of the community that we operate in and from all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation, beliefs, gender identities and disabilities
If you require more information about our equal opportunities policy or wish to discuss any accessibility requirements or reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team – recruitment@mizuhoemea.com and we will be happy to help.