Member of Group Project Governance_specialist_#3

Job Description
The candidate will be reporting to Group Project Governance, within Chief Planning & Performance Office of Nexi Group, in an organisation working seamlessly across all European countries and all Nexi Businesses & Regions, with the objective of governing projects, steering key strategic initiatives approvals and monitoring overall investment portfolio from a financial perspective.

The candidate will actively contribute to continuously improve project processes and efficiency, having the unique opportunity to develop a Group-wide view of the project portfolio while impacting key investment decisions, also working in strict collaboration with the Strategic Planning team.

The candidate will be responsible for the governance of the investments' portfolio of Nexi Group, in particular he/she will:

1. Build and maintain Nexi Group Project Portfolio
2. Current status: Operational progress of specific projects.
3. Drive Projects Budget Process, in strict collaboration with Strategic Planning team
4. Allocate right-sized investments to all Group's ExCo members and Budget Owners
5. Allocate right-sized mix of Capex/opex/NRI together with Internals vs External mix and IT/NON IT to all ExCo members and Budget Owners
6. Ensure a constant and consistent alignment across all key relevant stakeholders involved in the Budget Process (BUs, Regions, IT, Operations, etc.)
7. Design budget process and continuously improve it.
8. Follow Projects Forecast Process in strict collaboration with Strategic Planning team, in terms of:
1. Designing forecast process and continuously improving it
2. Collecting, consolidating and sound-checking vs overall Group investment strategy all needs coming from Budget Owners.
9. Drive Projects Approval Process, ensuring right-sized approvals in terms of:
1. Funding, ensuring availability of budget and making sure the investment is in line with overall Group's strategy
2. Documentation, ensuring audit-proof decks, with all due requirements and approvals
3. Business Cases, ensuring positive returns on investments and making sure base and alternative scenarios/sensitivity analyses are included and solid
4. Budget release, ensuring right-sized budget is released and made available to spenders.
10. Manage Project Committees in terms of:
1. Steering needed approvals' sessions with Group CFO/CEO and all relevant needed ExCo members
2. Ensuring strong and solid documentation availability to drive a consistent decision-making.

1. Master or equivalent in Engineering / Economics
2. Excellent English / Italian language skills
3. Positive attitude to work under pressure
4. Excellent Excel / PowerPoint skills
5. Experience in communication with top management level
6. Experience and/or knowledge of payments industry is a plus
7. 5-10 years of experience, consultant background is a plus