AVP/VP (12 months contract), EPMO (Governance & Reporting)

Introduction

The Enterprise Programme Management Office (EPMO) governs the Technology Portfolio of Programmes and Projects and ensures they deliver the value to the business approved by Senior Management Committee (SMC Cyber & Tech) under the multi-year Board approved strategy and budget.

The team operates by shaping efficient ways of working, increasing effective engagements across Business and Technology, challenging Project business cases, balancing rapid progress with quality delivery, ensuring the realization of project business benefits and value, providing assurance, guidance and forging strong working relationships of collaboration and excellent stakeholder management capabilities across Temasek Business and Technology.

The team operates with the mandate to protect Temasek’s financial investment and ensure that Temasek Tech Portfolio of Programmes and Projects deliver the agreed business outcomes and value within the approved budget. The team also ensures that stakeholder communications are managed, and the required project governance standards are maintained to avoid audit issues.

Responsibilities

• Support the Enterprise PMO Lead in driving the implementation of the new governance model for all projects including aligning to revised frameworks and tools advocated by EPMO working across waterfall, hybrid and agile methodologies.
• Provide project reporting of T-Tech and Critical BAU Projects in Governance and key forums such as T-Tech Fortnightly, Service Line Leadership, combined TLM/SLLM, JTBR meetings etc.
• Represent EPMO in Project Steering Committees and Leadership Meetings relating to Project Management Governance Standards.
• Drive excellence in Project Governance by improving frameworks, capabilities and tools. Subject matter expert/advisor in ensuring consistent adoption, application and project governance compliance.
• Monitor project Issues, Risks and Dependencies and provide advisory on interdependencies by tracking and monitoring across projects to escalate risks and issues in a timely manner
• Oversee project governance as defined by the organisation to ensure deliverables are completed according to project delivery methodology in a timely manner
• Oversee and perform quality assurance of deliverables and milestones to facilitate adherence to organisation standards and processes for T Tech projects
• Manage and oversee the reporting and tracking tools of Confluence, JIRA etc., across the Technology Portfolio of Programmes and Critical BAU Projects.
• Onboarding project vendors to the Governance playbook and processes.
• Timesheet configuration, onboarding and offboarding and interfacing with Procurement team

• Ensure relevant approvals are obtained in a timely manner to support smooth project delivery and adherence to standards and processes defined by the organisation
• Oversee quality of project deliverables throughout the project delivery lifecycle by performing quality assurance to facilitate adherence to standards and processes as defined by the organisation
• Drive operational excellence by increasing effective engagements with the business and tech team across all workstream verticals to identify potential issues such as delays in timeline and cross project dependencies for TTech projects.
• Attend and manage governance forums by preparing invites, decks, consolidating agenda items, minutes taking and follow up on action items in a timely manner
• Perform any additional task / activity as required

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in managing large and complex Tech Projects and Programmes with detailed knowledge in programme delivery, governance, and financials monitoring
• Demonstrable track record of managing multiple projects to ensure successful delivery
• Strategic, detail oriented and analytical, to be able to analyze situations and perform well in a dynamic environment
• Experience and exposure to different project methodologies and project management and reporting
• Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others, and also be able to abstract as a team leader to support the EPMO lead
• Experience with cost and budget tracking
• Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and stakeholder management skills
• Bachelor’s Degree with Project Mgt experience / Prince 2 / Scrum Master Certifications (preferable)
• Knowledge of Project Management Tools such as ServiceNow, Confluence, JIRA, SharePoint, MS Project etc. (preferable)