Project Control Officer (PCO)
The Project Control Officer (PCO) assists with the coordination of projects and programs within the portfolio in addition to administrative duties within the PMO. Scope : Assists Project leads in building schedules, resource coordination, budget / invoice handling, stakeholder coordination of meetings and minutes and compliance with PMO governance for Major and Minor Projects.
Responsibilities
- Collect data needed to support Program / Project Lead
- Log, monitor and control project scope change requests (SCRs)
- Support business in preparation for Business Cases; Ensure one-time and on-going costs are tracked for accurate evaluation of ROI
- May support the PMO team with project updates, and closure in multiple systems / applications as time permits
- Ensure compliance with minimum requirements by QA’ing artifacts before migrating them to the shared repository
- Establish / manage monthly Finance reconciliation process for project budget verification (people,process, tools) and reconciliation
- Provide direct support in relation to financial reporting, planning, and contracting issues to Program / Project Managers, and Team Leads
- Monitor budget cost distributions including : Budget Reconciliations, Project / Account Forecasting, Revenue Recognition, Margin / Efficiency Reporting, Resource Planning Reporting, and ROI
- Coordinate meetings
- May help educate staff unfamiliar with PMO Methodology to facilitate smooth processing
- Follow-up on team member delivery of status reports, etc on time
- Identify problems / issues and escalate as appropriate
- Follow-up on invoices, ensure proper coding, review of costs, matching to purchase requisitions, contracts, PO’s, etc., review monthly financial reports to submitted invoices, query unexpected charges and obtain copies of supporting documentation, follow-up on outstanding JV’s, corrections, etc., investigate missing charges, track status of requisitions / PO’s / SOWs
- Retain copies of all project related vendor agreements – i.e. LOIs, SOWs, etc
- May participate in process improvement efforts and or the development of new PMO tools or templates
- Work independently and in a team environment under the direction of the Project or Program Manager and relevant IT and business stakeholders as appropriate
- Work with program / project managers to help update and maintain current and accurate project schedules / budgets; As part of this effort, monitor and reconcile allocation of resources (internal / external) to TimeLive with resource effort actually spent working on project tasks
- Manage on-boarding / off-boarding procedures of all contractors and consultants for the all IT projects which includes requesting the building and network access, software / hardware assignments, etc. and work with facility department on workspace allocations
- Manage project team members’ timesheets, and validate timesheets against invoices for 3rd project resources
- Coordinate and manage the routing for SOW, Change Request and contract amendments
Experience
5-7 years of project support / coordination experience in an IT environmentManaging financials for a PMO officeWorking with PMs to extract data needed / when needed for reporting purposesInvolvement in execution of IT projectFinance background an assetEPPM (Planview, Clarity, MS EPPM) an assetGood understanding PMLC / SDLC processesThis is a minimum 6 month contract located in Toronto, ON (work from home until deemed safe).