Head of Project Management Office | Al Futtaim Automotive | Finance

Overview of the role:

Al Futtaim Automotive are at an exciting transformational journey of going from good to great. In collaboration with the core business units, centres of excellence and enabling functions, and different finance departments you will support the finance transformation.

The successful candidate will be expected to drive Finance projects, provide effective program and project office services, including best practice guidance and standards, and effective assurance to project and programme delivery. Deep Finance and SAP understanding is expected.

What you will do:

• Deliver projects on time, cost and to quality
• Create, manage and monitor breakdown of deliverables to activities and tasks
• Set-up and effectively manage scrum board
• Create, manage and maintain project folder in MS Teams and ensure all mandatory artefacts are uploaded and updated
• Ensure all deliverables are aligned and mapped to project milestones & objectives
• Effective resource planning and reporting (no delays to project caused by insufficient resources)
• Adherance to Project Management methodology (Agile/ Waterfall/ Hybrid)
• Up to date RAIDD (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies & Decisions) log
• Flagging / escalating risks and issues proactively / on time (no unforeseen delays caused by poor management)
• Ensuring credible mitigation plans and get to green plans for all risks and issues
• Develops new project portfolio governance models, project management methodologies, reporting and performance management frameworks and dashboards, and project management tools and templates:
• Contribution to the initiation and design of methodologies, frameworks and tools
• Serves as primary interface for product owners, sponsors, leading planning and executing their projects, is intimately familiar with progress of all initiatives and proactively assists the team in preventing compromises to project scope, budget & deadlines:
• Effective stakeholder management (engagement & escalation matrix)
• Retrospective & lessons learnt after key deliverables (evidence to be submitted as part of artefacts)
• Prepares reports to all relevant stakeholders on the status and progress of the company\xe2\x80\x99s portfolio of projects, insights as to key risk areas and mitigants, to ensure timely escalation and support:
• Adherance to project reporting governance, templates and guidelines

Bayt