Skills

Communication Risk Management ServiceNow Quality Assurance Facilitation Recruitment

Job Specifications

Project Support Officer (PSO) - Banking Client - Paris, Amsterdam or Brussels

Rate: Flexible

Duration: 1 Year Freelance Contract

Start Date: January

We’re looking for a hands-on Project Support Officer (PSO) to help managing the budget, planning and tools for all assigned projects. In this role, you will collaborate closely with project managers, the central PMO team, and various delivery teams across to ensure financial accuracy, assist with resource planning, facilitate quarterly planning sessions, and streamline reporting processes. Additionally, you will ensure that projects adhere to the group methodology.

PSO Responsibilities:

Budget support: Help project managers manage their budgets using tools like Excel, Oracle, and ServiceNow.
Data maintenance: Keep financial and resource data up to date and accurate across systems.
Forecast reviews: Challenge project managers on their forecasts and help them improve accuracy over time.
Financial reporting: Create monthly variance reports to show how actual spend compares to the planned costs.
Stakeholder coordination: Work with different teams to provide budget inputs for steering committees, regulatory reporting, recruitment etc.
Quarterly planning: Support quarterly demand and resource planning across the projects.
Facilitation: Run planning discussions with teams and get demand requests prioritised at the organisation, especially when there are dependencies to sort through.
Benefits & disbenefits tracking: Support project managers in identifying, tracking, and reporting on both expected benefits and any disbenefits, helping to capture the full impact of all projects.
Project status update reporting: Collect input from all project managers and summarise in a project status report on a monthly basis.
Milestone management: Tracking and coordinating key project checkpoints to ensure timely delivery and alignment with goals.
Preparation and facilitation of (steering committee) meetings: Prepare SteerCo slides and collect input from several contributors.
Meeting minutes and action tracking: Summarise key discussion points, actions and decisions and follow-up with action owners.
Quality assurance and controls management: Frequent checkpoints with project managers to maintain a high standard in terms of project life cycle documents, monthly reports and status updates, and steer and support where needed.
Risk management: Prepare risk overviews and facilitate discussions with Risk Management and Internal Audit.

Required skills/mindset:

Analytical Mindset: You are comfortable with numbers and spotting trends or inconsistencies.
Excel Skills: You know your way around spreadsheets or you are eager to learn quickly.
PowerPoint Skills: You are comfortable with creating slides and visually bringing a message across.
Communication Skills: You can explain things clearly and are comfortable with working with a range of people.
Proactive Attitude: You’re not afraid to ask questions, challenge things, or suggest improvements.
Tool Familiarity: Experience with Oracle or ServiceNow is a plus.

Please do send across an up to date CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com

About the Company

We're a leading global recruitment agency, specializing in digital talent and our mission is to create futures to make your life easier. Recruitment is the process of seeking out the best person for a job and the best job for a person. At Salt, not only do we strive for the best today, but to create the best future for all in an ever-changing digital world. We see digital recruitment as working with businesses and candidates through digital disruption, innovation, transformation, and business change. Our consultants are ... Know more