Project Management Officer

Project Coordinator / PMO (Financial Services Transformation)

Location: Helsinki, Finland (Hybrid setup, 2–3 days on-site per week)

Assignment Period: 04 January 2027 – 30 June 2027

Allocation: Full-time (40 hours per week)

Employment Business: Recann Ltd

Assignment Overview:

• We are looking for an experienced Project Coordinator/PMO to support a complex, group-wide transformation programme within the financial services sector.
• The successful candidate will provide comprehensive programme management support, ensuring effective governance, reporting, coordination, and monitoring across multiple interconnected workstreams, business areas, and legal entities.
• The role involves close collaboration with Senior Programme Managers, Project Managers, business stakeholders, and workstream leads to ensure effective delivery oversight and timely escalation of risks, issues, and dependencies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support programme governance, ensuring consistent management processes, reporting structures, and control mechanisms across the programme.
• Independently prepare management reports, steering committee materials, presentations, status updates, and programme documentation.
• Coordinate activities and monitor delivery progress across multiple workstreams, including Outsourcing Restrictions, Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), Service Catalogue, Fraud, Identity Verification (ID&V), and Regulatory Coordination.
• Support the implementation of changes across different business areas and legal entities, including onboarding systems, processes, and procedures.
• Monitor initiatives related to group-wide information sharing, data-sharing requirements, and associated legal considerations.
• Track data sourcing activities, including coordination with relevant business areas to ensure data availability for group repositories and transaction monitoring.
• Support KYC and Transaction Monitoring initiatives by monitoring milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Monitor initiatives related to reporting criminal activity and high-value-goods transactions.
• Manage programme-level risks, issues, dependencies, actions, and escalations.
• Coordinate stakeholder communication and ensure alignment between business areas, legal entities, and programme workstreams.
• Support resource planning, delivery tracking, and change management activities.
• Proactively identify programme-level challenges and support continuous improvement of governance and reporting processes.

Required Experience & Qualifications:

• Proven experience in PMO, Programme Management Support, or Project Management roles.
• Strong understanding of Programme Governance and Management Reporting.
• Background in Banking or Financial Services.
• Experience preparing Steering Committee presentations and materials for senior management.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Experience in Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management.
• Solid knowledge of project planning, delivery tracking, and resource management.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation programmes involving multiple business areas and legal entities.
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Strong communication, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a complex international environment.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of AML (Anti-Money Laundering), KYC, and Transaction Monitoring.
• Experience in Fraud Prevention and Identity Verification (ID&V).
• Knowledge of Identity Governance and Administration (IGA).
• Experience with Outsourcing Governance and Regulatory Change.
• Understanding of data sourcing, data sharing, and group-wide information management.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, MS Project, or similar project management tools.

If you are interested, or you know someone that could be, please reach out and we can arrange a time to speak?