Senior Associate, Enterprise Portfolio Governance

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation; Makati; Hybrid; PHP 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model with 3 days onsite/2

Healthcare & life insurance

Pension/retirement benefits

Paid time off & family care leave

Job summary

DTCC in Makati, Philippines seeks a Senior Associate to support enterprise portfolio governance, enabling clear decisions, ownership, and escalation. You will coordinate governance forums, maintain decision logs, and drive visibility across risks and dependencies in a complex, global organization.

Role requires 4+ years in portfolio management or PMO-like roles, with strong collaboration across business, technology, risk, and finance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of related experience in portfolio management, PMO/EPMO, governance, program delivery, business management, strategy execution or a related discipline
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Experience supporting executive committees, governance forums, portfolio councils, executive-level workflows or senior management review routines.
• Strong organizational skills with experience managing calendars, agendas, materials, decision logs, action trackers, escalations and follow-through routines.
• Ability to synthesize complex program and portfolio information into clear decision points, options, risks, dependencies and executive-ready communications.
• Working knowledge of risk, issue, dependency, change control and portfolio health reporting practices.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across business, technology, risk, finance and delivery teams in a complex organization.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools; experience with project or portfolio management tools such as Planview and JIRA preferred.
• Must be amenable to work EMEA/Mid shift hours.

Responsibilities

• Support the execution of enterprise governance forums through crisp agendas, pre-reads, decision asks, materials, meeting outcomes and post-forum communications.
• Coordinate committee readiness activities, including submission calendars, content standards, review cycles, readiness checks and follow-up with initiative and program teams.
• Maintain action, escalation, decision record and follow-through routines to ensure decisions are clearly documented, owners are identified and next steps are tracked to closure.
• Help translate complex portfolio and program topics into clear decision points, options, impacts, risks and recommended escalation pathways.
• Provide consolidated visibility into risks, issues, dependencies, blockers and change control items requiring governance attention or leadership decisions.
• Partner with Portfolio Advisory and Standards, Controls, Data & Continuous Improvement teams to strengthen input quality, reporting consistency and executive material standards.
• Support rationalization of forums, meetings and reporting routines to reduce administrative burden while improving decision quality, accountability and transparency.
• Prepare regular program and portfolio status updates, insights and recommendations for senior leadership and key stakeholders in coordination with portfolio partners.

Skills

Portfolio management

PMO/EPMO

Governance

Program delivery

Strategy execution

Cross-functional collaboration

MS Office

Planview

JIRA

EMEA/Mid shift readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Planview

JIRA

Job description

DTCC in Makati, Philippines seeks a Senior Associate to support enterprise portfolio governance, enabling clear decisions, ownership, and escalation. You will coordinate governance forums, maintain decision logs, and drive visibility across risks and dependencies in a complex, global organization.

Role requires 4+ years in portfolio management or PMO-like roles, with strong collaboration across business, technology, risk, and finance.