Assistant Vice President, ePMO Specialist

About CLS:

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem.  Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective.  Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day. 

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies.  We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people.  Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:

• Pivotal purpose
• Trusted guardian
• Targeted innovation
• Facilitate connections
• Delivering excellence
• Inclusive culture

Job information:

· Functional title – Assistant Vice President, ePMO Specialist

· Department – Programme Management Office

· Corporate level – Assistant Vice President

· Report to – Director, ePMO Specialist

· Location - London

 

What you will be doing:

Operational

• Ensures the project team executes the project in adherence to the Project Management Policy and Pegasus governance of projects.

• Ensures that the project team effectively monitors and reports on the execution and tracking progress of individual projects, track milestones, schedule deviations, overall costs, risk and issues, budget, etc.

• Provide advice and guidance to the project manager to ensure the project adheres to procedures

• Support development and implementation of consistent PMO processes, tools and templates across projects and overall portfolio

• Conduct checkpoint / stage gate reviews / and all other ePMO control points as part of the project framework

• Conduct Health checks providing ongoing independent quality assurance of project status

• Attendance at key project meetings (project boards, working groups) to ensure compliance to framework, effective governance, and provide SME support as applicable

• Ensure project management tool is up to date by the project manager

• Ensure risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions are documented and commensurate with the project complexity. Troubleshoot and resolve complex risks and issues as required.

• Provide guidance in identification and tracking the RAID (Risk, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies) process

• Interface with Audit and Regulators on PMO projects as applicable

• Support implementation of PMO industry practices to maintain better cross functionality by driving the strategic vision and maturing the PMO

• Support building individual and organizational change capabilities in team

• Support ongoing stakeholder management activities within the ePMO and across the projects/portfolio, internally and externally as required

• Ensure consistency of governance, reporting and control disciplines across projects in their remit

• Brings to resolution any potential problems and escalates issues to the appropriate project team members / forum

• Support change initiatives and carry out ad hoc tasks as required

 

What we’re looking for:

· Minimum of 5 -8 years of progressive responsibility working on large complex projects in a cross functional environment demonstrating standard project management skills.

· Minimum of 5-8 years or more of experience in project and portfolio management, working in a PMO or ePMO structure

· Knowledge of project management frameworks

 

Professional qualifications / certifications

· Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field

· Formal training or certification in Project Management Certification (MSP/PRINCE2/PMI/SIX SIGMA) preferred

 

Our commitment to employees:

At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:

• Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
• 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
• Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
• Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
• Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
• Employee Networks (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
• Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
• Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
• Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
• Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
• Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
• Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
• Annual flu vaccinations.
• Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
• Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
• All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
• Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.