Project Manager - Admin

Grant Thornton; Kolkata District, Hyderabad, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton in India seeks a Project Manager within IT Operations to deliver technology initiatives through the PMO service catalog, ensuring disciplined demand execution, delivery, financial oversight, risk management, and governance. The role collaborates with Product, Architecture, Platform Owners, ITSM, and business stakeholders to drive predictable outcomes aligned to portfolio priorities.

You will own end-to-end delivery across planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, develop

Qualifications

• Strong enterprise project management and PMO delivery expertise.
• Experience managing scope, schedule, budget, and risk.
• Familiarity with PMO and ITSM tooling (ServiceNow PPM, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar).
• Experience working with vendors and distributed / GDC delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder communication and executivelevel reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technology initiatives through the standardized PMO service catalog and ensure disciplined demand execution.
• Own end‑to‑end project delivery across planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, and dependency tracking.
• Coordinate cross‑functional delivery teams, including GDC resources and vendors.
• Maintain governance, risk, and change controls aligned to PMO standards.
• Provide standardized PMO reporting (status, milestones, financials, KPIs) to stakeholders.
• Support portfolio reviews, stage gates, and governance forums.

Skills

Enterprise PMO

Delivery management

Stakeholder reporting

Vendor management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Technology, Business, or related discipline

Tools

ServiceNow PPM

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Role & responsibilities :

The Project Manager within IT Operations is responsible for delivering technology initiatives through the standardized PMO service catalog, ensuring disciplined demand execution, project delivery, financial oversight, risk management, and governance. The role supports enterprise platforms and partners with Product, Architecture, Platform Owners, ITSM, and business stakeholders to drive predictable delivery outcomes aligned to portfolio priorities.

Platform / Domain Scope

• Support delivery of dashboards, reporting, data products, and data enablement initiatives
• Manage dependencies across source systems, data quality, and integration points
• Ensure governance, change, and operational readiness are addressed as part of delivery
• Provide consistent PMO reporting for initiatives with iterative or evolving scope
• Preferred Experience
• Experience managing iterative delivery aligned to business consumption
• Demand Intake & Initiation
• Execute approved demand following PMO intake, prioritization, and funding workflows
• Validate scope, objectives, dependencies, delivery model, and success criteria
• Ensure alignment to platform roadmaps and portfolio priorities
• Project & Delivery Management
• Own endtoend project delivery across planning, execution, monitoring, and closure
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, and dependency tracking
• Coordinate crossfunctional delivery teams, including GDC resources and vendors

Financial & Resource Management

• Manage budgets, forecasts, burn rates, and delivery variance
• Coordinate resource plans within established capacity and demand constraintsSupport capitalization, forecasting, and financial governance processes
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
• Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, and crossinitiative dependencies
• Drive mitigation plans and elevate decision points as required
• Maintain transparent RAID reporting aligned to PMO standards
• Governance, Reporting & Controls
• Produce standardized PMO reporting (status, milestones, financials, KPIs)
• Support stage gates, portfolio reviews, and governance forums
• Ensure adherence to PMO delivery standards and auditability requirements
• Change & Operational Readiness
• Coordinate with Change Enablement and Release Management
• Ensure testing, cutover, communications, and readiness activities are planned and executed
• Support postdeployment stabilization and transition to operations

Skills

• Strong enterprise project management and PMO delivery expertise
• Proven experience managing scope, schedule, budget, and risk
• Familiarity with PMO and ITSM tooling (ServiceNow PPM, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar)
• Experience working with vendors and distributed / GDC delivery teams
• Strong stakeholder communication and executivelevel reporting skills.

Education / Professional Experience/ Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Technology, Business, or related discipline (or equivalent experience)
• 58 years of project management experience in an enterprise IT environment
• Experience operating within formal PMO governance and delivery models