Project Management Officer

Job Title: PMO / Project Coordinator

Sector: Financial Services

Location: Helsinki, Finland (Hybrid – 3 days per week on-site)

Duration: 04 Jan 2027 – 30 Jun 2027

Allocation: Full-time (40 hours/week)

Setup: Recann is acting as the employment business for this specific role

Role Overview

We are currently supporting a major financial services client in Helsinki on a large-scale, group-wide transformation programme. We are seeking an experienced PMO / Project Coordinator to provide comprehensive programme management support, ensuring effective governance, reporting, cross-functional coordination, and monitoring across multiple interconnected workstreams and legal entities.

Key Responsibilities

• Support overall programme governance, maintaining consistent management processes, reporting structures, and control mechanisms.
• Independently prepare high-quality management reports, steering committee materials, presentations, status updates, and documentation.
• Coordinate activities and track delivery progress across diverse workstreams, including Outsourcing Restrictions, Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Service Catalogue, Fraud, Identity Verification (ID&V), and Regulatory Coordination.
• Support rollout activities across multiple business areas and legal entities, including onboarding processes, systems, and procedures.
• Track data sourcing activities and information-sharing initiatives supporting KYC, transaction monitoring, and criminal activity reporting.
• Manage programme-level risks, issues, dependencies, actions, and escalations.
• Facilitate stakeholder communication and alignment across business areas, legal entities, and technical teams.

Key Requirements

• Proven experience in PMO, Programme Management Support, or Project Coordinator/Management roles within the Financial Services sector.
• Strong command of Programme Governance, Management Reporting, and risk/dependency management.
• Advanced presentation and data handling skills (expert-level PowerPoint and Excel).
• Experience preparing Steering Committee presentations and reporting materials for senior management.
• Strong cross-functional stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities in a complex, international environment.
• Nice to Have: Familiarity with AML, KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Fraud Prevention, IGA, and tooling such as Jira or Confluence.

If you are interested, or you know someone that could be, please reach out asap and we can discuss?