PMO Transformation Manager – Yas

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (5 years of post-secondary education): business school, engineering school or equivalent university program
• Proven experience (≥ 5 years) in project/program management or in a PMO/transformation role, ideally in the banking, finance, or consulting sector.

Your Profile

• Proficiency in portfolio management and project governance methods and tools.
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to produce decision memos, executive briefings, structured reports, and management presentations in French and English.
• Very strong proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.
• Good understanding of regulated environments, ideally banking, fintech, mobile money, financial services, or financial transformation consulting.
• Attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to manage a high volume of work simultaneously.
• Ability to work independently and take a “hands-on” approach.

Your challenges

• Manage the project portfolio. Define scope, set milestones, plan work, and set priorities with management.
• Lead high-stakes cross-functional projects. This includes transformation, reorganization, and governance initiatives.
• Run project governance. Prepare and chair monthly decision committees. Produce reporting materials.
• Build monitoring tools. Set up trackers, dashboards, and timelines. Follow up regularly.
• Prepare decisions for management. Formalize options, analyze impacts, spot bottlenecks, and give recommendations.
• Keep a decision log. Track decisions, dependencies, and commitments from committee meetings. This ensures continuity.
• Watch risks and dependencies. Alert stakeholders, escalate issues, and unblock problems.
• Standardize working methods. Create templates for business cases, decision memos, RACI matrices, and implementation plans.
• Enforce ownership discipline. Assign a sponsor and a business owner to each project. This keeps transformation work from replacing operational teams permanently.
• Coordinate stakeholders across the group. Work with OpCos, finance, legal, and regulatory teams. Simplify how they interact.