PMO Portfolio Controller

PMO Portfolio Controller
Duration: 6+ Months CTH 
Location: Jersey City, NJ - Hybrid 
Position Summary:
The PMO Portfolio Controller is responsible for financials, planning and organizing technical project teams, in the creation and expansion of quality Insurance products and capabilities.
Specific responsibilities include:

• Accountable for the Digital Organization program's budgets and financials, taking corrective action as needed. In cadence with Finance team to review actuals, reconcile and provide quarterly forecasts and estimates to Leadership. Coordinate and provide guidance to Team Leads for work-in-progress (WIP) accounting, and fixed assets (FA) amortization schedules.
• Participate in YoY Financial planning with Finance, CIOs and Leadership.
• Manage resource pools and coordinate activities across multiple projects. As an influential leader, serve as point of contact for escalations, project issues, risks and resource constraints. Facilitate resolution to conflicts and disagreements.
• At the Digital Organization level, obtain talent, execute NDAs, MSAs, SOWs and CRs. Accountable to ensure compliance of vendor partner SLAs, mitigate work-at-risk (WAR) and see contracts through execution
• Coordinate project governance structure in collaboration with the PMO and client.
• Clarity Lead – ensure compliance, timely and accurate time-entry, project and task creation, administration and tracking
• Solid understanding of the SDLC model as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices. Ability to blend practices as necessary to deliver the business requirements.

Professional Qualifications

• Willingness to learn and communicate technical IT concepts to internal and external business clients
• Ability to work with financial teams, business partners and contract vendors to ensure workflow
• Team player with a proven background of individual contribution
• Excellent interpersonal, documentation, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to react to and provide ad-hoc reports and updates

Preferred Technical Skills

• Solid understanding of Microsoft Office suite – Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Teams and SharePoint
• Financial acumen - solid understanding of P&L, cash, capital and expense
• PeopleSoft, Apptio and Clarity for invoice review and approvals

Education and Training

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or equivalent working experience in finance or information technology.