Director, Enterprise Project Management Office

IT CURA Inc.; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

IT CURA Inc. is seeking an EPMO Director to oversee governance function across the U.S. and Greater China. The ideal candidate will develop strategies for effective portfolio management and governance in banking.

Responsibilities include leading prioritization reviews, managing resource allocation, and driving project success through best practices. Candidates should have significant EPMO experience in financial institutions and strong leadership skills. This is a full-time position based in California.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of EPMO experience in a bank or financial institution.
• Significant experience in EPMO leadership roles.
• Ability to engage with senior leaders and represent the EPMO.

Responsibilities

• Develop vision and strategy for the EPMO governance function.
• Implement portfolio governance practices aligning with strategic goals.
• Lead bank-wide portfolio prioritization reviews.

Skills

Banking experience

EPMO experience

Leadership

Program and Project Governance

Data Analysis/Interpretation

Program and Project Management

Key Performance Measures

Program Lifecycle Disciplines

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

Client is one of the largest independent banks headquartered in California serving consumers and businesses throughout the U.S. and Greater China. Client has over 130 locations worldwide including California, Texas, New York, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada, Washington, and Greater China.

Job Description

Client is currently seeking an Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) Director.

As an employee, you will be part of a growing and stable organization that provides career path development opportunities while serving a growing and profitable market.

Duties (not limited to) will include:

• Develops vision and overall strategy for the Bank’s EPMO governance function across U.S. and Greater China.
• Implements and administers end-to-end portfolio governance and portfolio management practices and processes, in alignment with the Bank’s strategic goals and objectives, including integration with the annual planning and budgeting processes.
• Leads bank-wide portfolio prioritization and reprioritization reviews for all enterprise projects all in the U.S and Greater China, including business projects with or without an IT component.
• Accountable for organization-wide education of EPMO policies, procedures, and standards and consistent application across the entire portfolio of projects; engages regularly with all levels of leaders on strategy delivery and portfolio governance performance.
• Leads the Bank’s overall project stage gate review process, through conducting readiness assessments to identifying gaps in readiness throughout the project life cycle.
• Establishes project and portfolio scoring systems to evaluate and measure performance against formalized criteria.
• Aggressively tracks and manages resource allocation and resource utilization rates at the individual project level and overall project portfolio level.
• Tracks and manages dependencies across multiple projects; leads escalation processes to make issues visible to stakeholders and leadership; drives resolution of dependency issues through the process.
• Ensures appropriate project hand-off and closure occurs, including holding the final post mortem / lessons learned sessions, and leveraging learnings to improve cross-team project practices.
• Stops project teams from “reinventing the wheel” by being the knowledge center for best practices, processes, templates, lessons learned, historical project repository.
• Manage the EPMO team, fostering career development opportunities for team members

Qualifications

• Banking experience as well as working with regulators is a critical requirement for this position
• At least 10 years of related EPMO experience, with heavy emphasis on implementing and leading portfolio management and governance in an bank or financial institution
• Leadership: Significant experience in an EPMO leadership role; ability to engage with senior leaders to represent the EPMO and defend governance practices to maintain alignment with the Bank’s objectives and priorities.
• Program and Project Governance: Deep subject matter expertise in managing a complex portfolio encompassing both formalized programs, projects, and out-of-cycle requests.
• Data Analysis/Interpretation: Ability to convert general data and findings into applied, specific information and suggestions that add value to business planning and program evaluation.
• Program and Project Management: Ability to manage projects to ensure successful delivery (on time, within budget, meeting agreed upon success criteria) to establish clear goals and accountabilities. Also includes the ability to develop project plans, allocate resources, identify potential issues/risks and develop contingency plans.
• Key Performance Measures: Significant experience in developing comprehensive performance measures and metrics by which to assess program and project performance, looking at the Bank’s objectives and strategies, cost/spend data, quality, schedule, resources, return on investment, and other measurement variables. Leads performance review engagements.
• Program Lifecycle Disciplines: Strong knowledge of the integrated systems lifecycle development utilizing different – and sometimes – multiple development models (e.g., agile, waterfall, hybrid, etc.)

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.