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Westminster

• Providing consultancy to Head of PMO and programme director to establish the full range of functions and embed them into regular and repetitive practice. • Providing financial management within the Cabinet Office and assurance to the 6 delivery departments, conducting periodic reviews, ensuring effective use of tracking processes and assessing funding requests• Improving monthly reporting from departments to ensure sufficient data is provided to reflect progress and inform the needs of mandatory reporting and drafting of dashboards to senior Government stakeholders.• Supporting Engagement leads to analyse delivery partners outputs.

London, United Kingdom

• Review and collaborative re-development of a range of PMO processes including; planning, governance, reporting, risks & issues, lessons learnt and financials that were rolled out across a range of projects.• Setting up PMO for Agile managed Transformation Programme with multiple work streams with particular emphasis on governance, establishing Kanbans, supporting and analysing third party delivery and financial rigueur.• Establishing and embedding financial assurance for the business project portfolio and IT BAU. Including the detailed assistance of financial aspects of creating business cases and annual business planning

London, United Kingdom

• Established PMO for Case Management replacement project and extending tools across all other projects. Primarily embedding risk and issue management along with planning, financial tracking and reporting.• Assisting the establishment of Digital transformation programme, the first time the organisation had used agile to deliver, with financial management, resourcing support and participating in scrums and retrospectives.• Support of Cloud migration project including planning, procurement and financial management.• Working in close liaison with Finance to maintain reporting integrity and manage year end accruals.