PMO Governance Lead
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Job Summary
As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms rely on SS&C for expertise scale and technology.
Job Description
Title: PMO Governance Lead
Type: Full Time II Permanent
Location: Australia Preferably Hobart Brisbane Melbourne or Sydney Hybrid
Job Description
Get To Know Us:
SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Companys operating segments include financial markets customer management professional services and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments asset and wealth management banking and lending insurance and real estate industries.
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
- Your Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance
- Work/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave
- Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave Death & TPD Insurance
- Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
- Training: Hands-On Team-Customized including SS&C University
- Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs travel and more!
What You Will Get To Do:
As a PMO Governance Lead you will play a pivotal role in ensuring that all projects adhere to organizational governance standards frameworks and compliance requirements. You will oversee the implementation of best-practice methodologies enabling consistent delivery across portfolios while maintaining transparency accountability and alignment with strategic objectives.
In this role you will:
- Establish and enforce governance frameworks to ensure projects comply with internal standards regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Develop and maintain PMO policies processes and templates driving consistency and scalability across delivery teams.
- Monitor and report on portfolio health including status updates RAID logs financial tracking and resource utilization.
- Facilitate governance forums and steering committees ensuring timely decision-making and alignment with strategic priorities.
- Provide oversight and assurance on project planning execution and delivery ensuring adherence to quality gates and compliance checkpoints.
- Lead risk and issue management practices ensuring proactive identification escalation and resolution.
- Champion continuous improvement leveraging lessons learned and metrics to refine governance processes and enhance delivery maturity.
- Engage with senior stakeholders influencing decisions and fostering a culture of accountability and transparency.
- Ensure audit readiness maintaining accurate version-controlled documentation and compliance evidence.
- Support change management initiatives ensuring governance frameworks evolve to meet organizational and regulatory changes.
- Mentor and guide project managers and PMO team members building capability and promoting best practices.
What You Will Bring:
- 5 years of experience in PMO governance portfolio management or project delivery within financial services wealth management or technology environments.
- Deep understanding of governance frameworks compliance standards and regulatory requirements in financial services.
- Proven expertise in SDLC Agile and structured project management methodologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data and provide actionable insights.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills influencing at senior levels and driving consensus.
- Experience in financial controls budget oversight and risk management.
- Proficiency in PMO tools and platforms including Atlassian suite (Jira Confluence) and portfolio management systems.
- Calm assertive and decisive under pressure ensuring governance integrity in challenging situations.
- Ability to lead change and embed governance practices across diverse teams and geographies.
- Experience in Superannuation Wealth Management or Transfer Agency operations (highly desirable).
- Proven capability to mentor and uplift PMO and project delivery teams.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. Its important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable to further explore this opportunity please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies Inc. or any of its affiliated companies the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race color religious creed gender age marital status sexual orientation national origin disability veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Program Management
- PMBOK
- PPM Tools
- Waterfall
- Project Server
- Project Management
- Sharepoint
- Microsoft Project
- Project Management Lifecycle
- SDLC
About Company
Leading cloud-based provider of financial services technology solutions. SS&C Technologies owns and maintains the best financial technology in the industry
