AVP, Portfolio Manager

Company: USAA
Location: San Antonio
Posted on: October 18, 2020

Job Description:

Purpose of JobOversees multiple portfolios within a CoSA. Maintains responsibility for governing portfolio and ensure compliance to applicable policies, procedures, standards, controls and regulations. Works in partnership with Executive Sponsors, Program Sponsors, business owners and additional stakeholders to ensure alignment to strategic objectives and effective prioritization, planning, delivery and benefits realization of work efforts.Job RequirementsTasks

• Identify and manage existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role.
• Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled.
• Follow written risk and compliance policies and procedures for business activities.
• Oversees, governs and is accountable for multiple portfolios within a CoSA, with a varying level of complexity (i.e., Company Agency Portfolio)
• Accountable for completion of governance routines of multiple work efforts that tie directly to strategic imperatives.
• Accountable and responsible for overseeing the portfolio on an ongoing basis, to resolve and disseminate information
• Identifies, manages and resolves systemic cross-work risks / issues and interdependency conflicts
• Manages risk to overall portfolio
• Ensures effective financial and resource management of overall portfolio, assisting in managing portfolio expenses to achieve business value
• Monitors work efforts for stale projects and need for resolution, including termination proposal if applicable
• Works with Enterprise Integrated Planning (EIP) to influence prioritization and sequencing of work efforts within portfolio, as applicable
• Monitors and makes decisions pertinent to scope changes as needed
• Reviews and resolves risk and issue escalations for portfolio, identifies need for escalations as needed
• Communicates regularly with Executive Sponsors, Program Sponsors, business owners, and additional stakeholders as required
• Establishes and manages critical path by mapping out and managing work effort scheduling and interdependencies based on constraints and risks.
• Reviews health and performance of portfolio regularly and identifies performance improvement opportunities
• Ensures compliance of Portfolio with company and regulatory policies and procedures
• Adheres to EPMO processes, procedures, controls, standards, tools and templates (as required)
• Leverages existing change management routines as needed
• Drives the adoption and sustainment of changes within the organization in compliance with USAA s Change Management framework.Minimum Education
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 4 additional years of related experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted in lieu of a degree.Minimum Experience
    • 10 years of experience in portfolio management leadership, process improvement, IT, engineering, or consulting for large strategic efforts within a complex matrix environment.
    • 6 years of people leadership experience in building, managing and/or developing high-performing teams.
    • Experience collaborating with key resources and stakeholders, influencing decisions and managing work to achieve strategic goals.
    • Executive level ability to manage complex budgets, communicate risks and issues and provide remediation plans
    • Executive level communication and presentation skills including delivering presentations to executives and/or C-suite.
    • Executive-level experience delivering member or customer facing capabilities in a complex multi-channel, multi-product, integrated system environment.
    • Executive-level experience with systems design and development from business requirements analysis through to day-to-day management.
    • Experience on portfolio management delivering complex work efforts working with Waterfall and Agile methodologies
    • 3 years SAFe methodology experience and well versed with Scaled Agile Framework s Portfolio Management methodology
    • Comprehensive understanding and application of risk management policies and procedures
    • Currently possess at least one of the following: Certified Project Manager (CPM), Lean Portfolio Management Certification, Project Management Professional (PMP) or gain one within 6 months of placement Preferred Experience:
      • Change management experience
      • Current PMP or CMP certification
      • Demonstrated ability to lead and influence in a matrixed environment** This role is available to internal applicants until midnight on 10-21-20 ** Associated topics: chief financial officer, chief investment officer, director finance, finance director, financial director, general operational manager, general operations manager, recruit, supervise, vice president

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