PMO & Portfolio Management Consultant

About Accenture

Portfolio Management

• Support the management of a portfolio of security-related projects by maintaining a consolidated view of project status, priorities, timelines, dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, and key decisions.
• Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards, executive reports, and management updates for client leadership and Accenture stakeholders.
• Track portfolio performance against agreed objectives, milestones, delivery plans, and expected benefits.
• Identify cross-project dependencies, conflicts, capacity constraints, delivery risks, and escalation items.
• Support portfolio prioritization discussions by providing accurate project data, delivery insights, and impact analysis.
• Ensure portfolio governance forums are properly structured, documented, and supported with accurate materials.

Pmo Governance And Control

• Establish, enhance, and operate PMO processes, templates, reporting mechanisms, governance routines, and delivery standards.
• Maintain project plans, integrated master schedules, RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs, meeting minutes, dependency trackers, and status reports.
• Monitor project progress against scope, timeline, cost, quality, risks, and deliverables.
• Support project managers and workstream leads in maintaining consistent project management discipline.
• Ensure project documentation is complete, structured, version-controlled, and aligned with client and Accenture expectations.
• Prepare materials for steering committees, working groups, executive updates, and project governance meetings.

Stakeholder And Vendor Coordination

• Coordinate with client stakeholders, Accenture teams, third-party vendors, technology teams, risk teams, compliance teams, and business representatives.
• Facilitate follow-ups on actions, decisions, dependencies, and pending inputs across multiple parties.
• Support meeting preparation, agenda setting, minutes of meeting, and tracking of agreed actions.
• Help resolve coordination gaps between project teams and escalate unresolved issues through the appropriate governance channels.
• Maintain a professional consulting presence with senior stakeholders in a banking environment.

Reporting And Executive Communication

• Prepare clear, concise, and executive-ready reports covering portfolio health, project progress, key risks, issues, decisions required, milestones, and upcoming activities.
• Develop dashboards and presentation materials using PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI, or equivalent reporting platforms.
• Translate complex project information into structured management insights.
• Support leadership briefings, steering committee packs, and client governance presentations.
• Ensure reporting is fact-based, consistent, and aligned with agreed PMO standards.

Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management

• Maintain and monitor RAID logs across projects and the overall portfolio.
• Follow up with project owners and stakeholders to ensure timely closure of actions, risks, and issues.
• Identify early warning indicators that may impact delivery timelines, budget, scope, or quality.
• Support escalation of critical risks and unresolved blockers to the appropriate governance level.
• Track mitigation plans, owners, target dates, and progress updates.
• **Qualifications**- 3 to 7 years of experience in project management, PMO, portfolio management, program coordination, or management consulting.
• Experience working in banking, financial services, technology transformation, risk, compliance, operations, or security-related programs is preferred.
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle management, governance, reporting, planning, risk management, issue management, and stakeholder coordination.
• Experience supporting large-scale programs or portfolios involving multiple projects, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced client environment.
• Strong experience preparing executive-level reports, dashboards, and presentations.
• The ability of working on AI tools in order to build PMO tools
• **Required Skills**- Strong project management and PMO capabilities.
• Excellent communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Ability to create structured dashboards, trackers, plans, and executive reports.
• Good understanding of portfolio governance, project controls, RAID management, dependency management, and milestone tracking.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow up effectively.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and structure complex information.
• Professional consulting mindset and client-facing presence.
• Fluency in English is required; Arabic is a plus.
• **Preferred Qualifications**- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-PBA, Agile, Scrum Master, MSP, MoP, or P3O are preferred.
• Experience in banking or financial services environments in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.
• Experience with portfolio management tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Clarity, ServiceNow SPM, Planview, Smartsheet, Power BI, or similar platforms.
• Prior experience in consulting or working with large enterprise clients is an advantage.