PMO Consultant (Banking & Financial Services)

Job Title: PMO Consultant (Banking & Financial Services) – Hybrid, 50% Travel

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid, with travel to client sites across the US)
 

About the Role
We’re looking for a motivated, detail-oriented PMO professional to support planning, coordination, governance, and reporting for large-scale projects and transformation programs. You’ll work closely with Project Managers, Program Managers, business stakeholders, technology teams, and client teams to keep projects organized, tracked, and delivered on time.

This is a client-facing role with up to 50% travel to client offices and project locations across the US.

Key Responsibilities

PMO & Project Coordination

• Support Project and Program Managers in day-to-day project management
• Maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies
• Coordinate project meetings, workshops, status calls, and governance sessions
• Prepare agendas, meeting materials, minutes, and action trackers
• Follow up with team members to make sure actions and deliverables land on time

Reporting & MI

• Prepare weekly and monthly project status reports
• Consolidate updates from multiple workstreams
• Maintain dashboards covering milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, actions, and dependencies
• Flag delays, risks, and issues to Project Managers promptly
• Support reporting packs and presentations for project and client leadership

RAID Management

• Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies)
• Track owners, due dates, and mitigation plans
• Escalate overdue or critical items to the appropriate Project Manager
• Monitor cross-team dependencies and support resolution

Planning & Tracking

• Assist with integrated project plans and schedules
• Track milestones and deliverables against baseline plans
• Spot potential schedule slippage and help build recovery plans
• Track resources and key activities across workstreams

Financial & Resource Tracking

• Support budget and cost tracking and maintain financial trackers
• Assist with variance reporting
• Support resource planning and utilization tracking

Stakeholder Management & Governance

• Coordinate with internal teams, client stakeholders, vendors, and project teams
• Support communication across onsite and offshore/nearshore teams
• Maintain governance artifacts, decision logs, action logs, and PMO documentation
• Support project audits and governance reviews

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Technology, Finance, or a related field
• 3–7 years in PMO, project coordination, project management, or program support
• Experience in a structured project or program environment
• Strong experience with project reporting, documentation, action tracking, and status management
• Understanding of project management methodologies and governance processes
• Strong organizational, time-management, and attention-to-detail skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work with distributed teams
• Willingness to travel up to 50% within the US

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP, CAPM, PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent certification
• Experience in Banking, Financial Services, Payments, Insurance, or other regulated industries
• Consulting or professional services background
• Experience supporting large transformation or technology programs
• Tools: Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, MS Project, Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, ServiceNow

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