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Christina Baillie

Senior PMO Lead / Analyst

€550/day
Edinburgh, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Christina

Prince2 Practitioner, P30 Training and PPM Training qualified PMO Lead with several years’ experience in Financial Services and IT.
Experience in PMO function design and implementation for both Programme and Portfolio level PMO’s.
Managed team of PMO Analysts.
Responsible for project management delivery standards, frameworks, budget and best practice across the organization.
Experienced in transitioning from Traditional to Agile.
Have set up a PMO function from scratch.
Dual citizenship - British & Canadian
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Edinburgh (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Natwest Group
    PMO Lead
    July 2021 - Today (4 years and 11 months)
    City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    PMO Management & Governance of 3 project – Global Cost Ledger; E2E Allocations; Climate
    • Completed set up of governance documentation and tracking through completion with sign-off
    • Full budget and resource control with monthly updating to Central Finance
    • Management of RAIDs across all programmes
    • Reporting & governance pack creation for all levels of Stakeholders
    • Ensure project quality control & assurance reviews and completed on a regular basis with follow on action plans
    • Ensure testing governance (SIT / UAT plans; test completion reports) across all projects are completed and signed off by the Programme Manager PMO Management & Governance of 3 now completed projects – Cost Transformation & Allocations; Investment Transformation
    • Responsible for RAID and Milestone management to Central PMO
    • Management and coordination of all formal governance documents through to sign off
    • Accountable for accurate budget and resource management to Programme Manager
    • Working Group pack collation and distribution
    • Weekly forum attendance with Central PMO to escalate issues
    • Repository management for all project governance artefacts
    • Implemented robust governance processes and templates for more accurate project management reporting
    • Conducted quality control across projects to ensure appropriate metrics are communicated to executives
    • Responsible set up of new project for Global Rollout of Cost Transformation into APAC and USA
  • Sainsbury's Bank
    Senior PMO Analyst
    January 2021 - July 2021 (6 months)
    City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Project Apple – NDA Programme and Debt Respite Scheme
    • PMO for NDA project
    • Sole PMO for Debt Respite Scheme
    • Responsible for RAID management
    • Produced Programme Plan across various workstreams
    • Weekly Working Group / Steering Group pack creation and ownership
    • Responsible for Stakeholder Management
    • First point of contact for Debt Respite Scheme
    • Accountable for updating Central PMO with Resource and Budget updates
    • Implemented significant changes to the control and quality of Programme documentation
    • Daily MI production to Senior Executives
  • Natwest Group
    Program Management Office Lead
    August 2019 - January 2021 (1 year and 5 months)
    Edinburgh, UK
    IRB Transformation European Banking Authority – Tier 1 Programme Programme initiated to address significant regulatory changes from the European Banking Authority and the Prudential Regulatory Authority
    • Working in Central PMO supporting a Portfolio of projects at Senior Executive / CEO level
    • Embedded processes and templates to ensure effective management of the Programme following P3RM
    • Working with Portfolio Level PMO
    • Analysing PMO activities to move from Traditional to Agile o Daily Stand-Up calls
    • Reviewing activities and templates – streamlining
    • Implemented robust Change Control process
    • Excellent Stakeholder management and engagement of all levels – Project level to Senior Executives
    • Understanding and applying scheduling best practice for Programme Planning – transition to Agile following P3RM
    • Accountable for programme budget and resource control
    • Implemented significant changes to quality and efficiency of Executive reporting packs, Comms, minutes
    • Onboarding third party suppliers (Deloitte, KPMG, Sopra)

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Education

  • Swift Current Comprehensive High School
    2003

Certifications

  • Prince2
    Prince2
    2010

Skill set (27)

Categories

  • Other