Senior Manager, Project Management, ePMO

Make your impact at CFA Institute

Join our Enterprise Project Management Office (ePMO) and help shape how cross-functional initiatives come to life across finance technology and the business. As Senior Manager Project Management youll serve as a strategic partner and trusted conduitturning portfolio priorities into well-run projects that enhance our financial and operational capabilities. If you thrive on solving complex problems aligning diverse stakeholders and delivering measurable outcomes wed love to hear from you.

What Youll Do

• Lead and be accountable for ePMO projects and subprojects that enhance financial management portfolio processes tools and enabling technologies.

• Partner with business groups to capture portfolio/program requirements and use market intelligence/benchmarking to recommend process and tooling enhancements.

• Design frameworks and proofs-of-concept to assess project and financial management functionality within our application landscape (e.g. Workday NetSuite Jira).

• Engage senior leaders across finance technology and business to define goals operating models and releases.

• Implement and optimize tools/techniques for KPI tracking dashboarding and data reporting to support efficient decision-making.

• Ensure compliance with ePMO processes and documentation standards (business cases schedules reporting) and liaise with Finance on funding authorization and analysis (forecasts actuals budgets).

• Build strong stakeholder relationships and drive continuous testing and improvement of processes and resources.

• Perform ad-hoc analyses and special projects (e.g. focused area assessments strategic initiatives process revisions training).

• Champion the value of ePMO tools and processes to executives and key stakeholders; coach and guide team members to complete assigned tasks.

What Youll Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree (Management Information Systems or Business preferred) or equivalent experience.

• 710 years of project management experience with multiple delivery methodologies (waterfall hybrid scrum scaled agile).

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word PowerPoint Excel Outlook) and one or more PM systems (e.g. Jira Confluence).

• Demonstrated success delivering large change initiatives (business cases vendor selection process optimization organizational change management) in a multinational matrixed environment.

• Strong team orientation with excellent verbal/written communication including presenting to senior leaders and stakeholders.

• Advanced analytical problem-solving and influencing skills.

• Practical experience with Finish-to-Start (FS) scheduling dependencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) PMI-ACP or PRINCE2 certification.

• Hands-on experience evaluating or integrating Workday NetSuite and Jira for financial/project management use cases.

Why Join Us

At CFA Institute youll work on meaningful enterprise-level initiatives that advance our mission and support our global community of investment professionals. Youll collaborate with senior leaders across functions shape pragmatic solutions that scale and help elevate project portfolio excellence across the organization. We offer a values-driven culture opportunities to grow your craft and the chance to see your work make a tangible organization-wide impact.

At CFA Institute we are committed to transparency and equity in our hiring compliance with wage transparency laws in many of the jurisdictions in which we recruit we provide the following information regarding compensation for this position:

Expected salary Range: GBP 75000 - GBP 85000

Other benefits include eligibility for annual incentives 12% pension employer contribution and competitive medical benefits.

All salary ranges are subject to adjustment based on experience education and other factors relevant to the position. CFA Institute is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals.

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About CFA Institute

CFA Institute are the global leader in investment excellence and ethics. With nearly 200000 charterholders across 160 markets we drive professional growth ethical behavior and better markets. We care about our employees well-being offering industry-leading benefits like:

• Comprehensive health coverage for you and your family

• Generous leave and time off

• Competitive retirement plans

• Flexible work options

• Wellness education and support programs

If you feel this opportunity could be the next step in your career we encourage you to click Apply and complete our three-minute application.

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