PMO & Portfolio Governance Lead

PwC Philippines; Makati; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Philippines is seeking a highly organized PMO Specialist to support planning, governance, and reporting for strategic initiatives and digital transformation programs. The role focuses on delivering projects on time, within scope and budget, while providing management with actionable insights.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in project management, governance, and executive reporting, with strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills in complex environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, Management, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in project management, PMO operations, program coordination, or project delivery.
• At least 2-3 years of hands-on experience in project governance, monitoring, and executive reporting.
• Demonstrated experience supporting multiple projects or complex transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid approaches.
• Experience preparing project status reports, management dashboards, RAID logs, and executive presentations.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and project management tools.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage with senior management.

Responsibilities

• Support project managers and program leads in developing and maintaining detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
• Coordinate project activities across multiple teams, workstreams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Monitor project progress and ensure timely completion of assigned activities.
• Track project dependencies, critical milestones, resource allocations, and deliverable commitments.
• Facilitate project meetings, status reviews, and stakeholder coordination sessions.
• Establish and maintain project governance frameworks, reporting standards, templates, and documentation.
• Monitor project performance against scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
• Maintain RAID logs and coordinate mitigation activities.
• Ensure compliance with project management methodologies and organizational policies.
• Prepare weekly and monthly project status reports, executive dashboards, and management presentations.
• Consolidate updates from different workstreams to show overall program health.
• Track KPIs, milestones, resource utilization, and delivery performance.
• Highlight deviations, risks, and management decisions.
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to project managers and leadership.
• Act as a central coordination point between project teams, stakeholders, and vendors.
• Facilitate governance meetings, steering committees, and status discussions.
• Prepare meeting agendas, minutes, action trackers, and decision logs.
• Ensure timely communication of updates, escalations, risks, and decisions.
• Follow up with stakeholders to ensure accountability and closure of actions.
• Assist in monitoring budgets, forecasts, and expenditures.
• Track resource assignments, capacity, and staffing requirements.
• Coordinate with finance, procurement, and delivery teams on budgets.
• Support financial reporting and variance analysis.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Reporting

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Business/Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Microsoft Project

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Smartsheet

Job description

PwC Philippines is seeking a highly organized PMO Specialist to support planning, governance, and reporting for strategic initiatives and digital transformation programs. The role focuses on delivering projects on time, within scope and budget, while providing management with actionable insights.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in project management, governance, and executive reporting, with strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills in complex environments.