Cyber Risk and Regulatory- PMO (UK) - Manager - BLR/KOL/HYD/MUM

At PwC, our people in project portfolio management focus on optimising project portfolios to drive strategic business outcomes. These individuals oversee project selection, prioritisation, and resource allocation to facilitate successful project delivery. In project management at PwC, you will oversee and coordinate various projects to facilitate successful delivery within budget and timeline. You will leverage strong organisational and communication skills to effectively manage teams and stakeholders.

Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

Generic PMO Responsibilities

• PMO for end clients, engagements and territory
• Portfolios and large accounts, Program and Project Management for clients
• Very senior stakeholder management for end clients and internal up to C-suite
• Growth Strategist, contribution to business development and proposals for sales
• Large Transformation and transition programs, strategy and roadmap
• Change Management
• Creating project plans, project charters, project checklists and steering decks for project planning, monitoring, execution and completion.
• Tracking project objectives, workstreams, milestones, timelines, deliverables, dependencies, scope, risk assessment, issue resolution
• Manage project resourcing, recruitment, onboarding, effort estimation, budget and finance, communication plans, new metrics and approaches in the market
• Leveraging Project Management Tools like MPP and Jira extensively.
• Scrum practices and Agile methodologies, sprint planning and driving the project
• Data Analytics & Reporting frameworks for status, progress and decision making
• Presentations, visual representation and storyboarding
• Project Coordination with multiple departments of clients and internal both.
• Manage change controls procedures, quality compliance and risk management procedures, regulatory compliance, root cause analysis
• Financial forecasting, financial analysis, revenue lifecycle management
• Governance and cadences, kickoffs and bootcamps
• Digital Transformation
• Drive automation, innovation, technology & tools to continually improve productivity
• People and team management, coaching and mentoring of team members, review of client deliverables, leading team initiatives
• Practice, territory, industry and capability development
• Increase standardization globally, establishing guiding principles of cross-regional rigor and collaboration
• Escalation Management
• Driving Recruitment, Resource Management and Deployment, finance and billing, learning & development, vendor management, onboarding, reporting, process foundation and policy making, employee lifecycle from hire to retire.
  
  

FS PMO Specific Responsibilities

• Meet relevant regulations and industry standards specific to the organization’s sector, such as environmental laws, health and safety standards, or data protection regulations.
• Work closely with compliance and legal teams to interpret regulations and incorporate necessary controls into project plans.
• Develop and implement robust risk management frameworks to identify, assess, and mitigate risks across all projects.
• Perform regular risk assessments and audits to proactively identify and manage potential project risks.
• Change management initiatives to ensure smooth transitions in response to new or updated regulations and industry standards.
• Adapt risk and compliance strategies to evolving regulatory landscapes and organizational changes.
  
  

IA PMO Specific Responsibilities

• Basic understanding of Internal Audit function, concepts and regulations.
• Supporting Internal Audit engagements from planning and reporting purpose.
• Drafting audit documentation and reports, managing AURA tool, Evidence Gathering and maintaining workpapers.
• Issue validation and working with clients to validate action items.
• Supporting market leading solutions and proposals.
• Experience in undertaking and reviewing risk management processes.
• Facilitating process mapping and controls walkthroughs, identifying key gaps and implementing remediation strategies to enhance governance and compliance.
  
  

Mandatory People Skills

• Excellent communication and written skills
• Trusted and sustainable relationship skills
• Ethics and values
• Collaborator Champion
• Thinking like a Leader, acting as an Owner