Title: PMO Finance & Vendor Spend Governance Lead

Location: Hyderabad

Exp: 8+ Yrs

: Key Responsibilities:

Project & Program Financial Governance

- Own and maintain project and program-level financial baselines, forecasts, and cost-to-complete.
- Ensure alignment with approved ARs/CARs and AOP allocations.
- Support PMs and Portfolio Leads in maintaining multi-year financial forecasts.
- Validate assumptions related to phasing, burn rates, labour mix, and timing shifts.
- Reconcile actual spend against approved budgets, ARs, and POs.
- Perform monthly variance analysis at project and portfolio levels.
- Identify variance drivers and emerging financial risks.
- Ensure reconciliation integrity across Planview, SAP/ERP, and ARIBA.
- Proactively flag budget overruns, funding gaps, and forecast erosion.
- Provide fact-based escalation inputs to Portfolio Leads and PMO leadership.
- Support monthly and quarterly financial close activities.

CapEx / OpEx Controls & Audit Readiness

- Enforce consistent CapEx vs. OpEx classification.
- Validate classification during AR/CAR setup and throughout project execution.
- Identify misclassification risks and coordinate corrections with Finance.
- Ensure project spend aligns with approved budgets, cost centres, and funding approvals.
- Maintain audit-ready documentation for PMO-managed projects.
- Support internal and external audits related to project financials.
- Track, remediate, and close PMO-side audit findings.

Portfolio Financial Reporting & Accountability

- Ensure portfolio financial dashboards and reports reconcile to systems of record.
- Ensure accurate budget, actual, and forecast data is reflected in reports.
- Validate financial inputs provided to PMO Reporting / Analytics teams.
- Review and sign off on PMO financial packs for portfolio reviews, MBRs, QBRs, and AOP tracking discussions.
- Provide narrative commentary on financial drivers, risks, and trends.




- Act as the final PMO checkpoint before financial data is presented to leadership.

Vendor Spend Governance

- Ensure vendor spend is supported by approved contracts and POs.
- Track spend under contract, PO coverage, and burn against plan.
- Identify off-contract spend and coordinate remediation.
- Validate vendor invoices against POs, contracts, and delivered services.
- Resolve discrepancies with PMs, AP, and vendors.
- Prevent late payments and financial leakage through proactive controls.
- Maintain vendor performance visibility from a financial and delivery-health perspective.
- Identify patterns of overruns, frequent change requests, or cost instability.
- Provide data-backed inputs into quarterly vendor reviews.

Stakeholder Advisory & Influence

- Act as the PMO finance authority for Portfolio Leads and Project Managers.
- Explain financial concepts and constraints clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
- Influence portfolio trade-off decisions through data and judgment.
- Provide early-warning indicators before financial issues surface in governance.

Tools, Data Quality & Process Improvement

- Own PMO financial data quality in Planview and ERP.
- Drive reconciliation discipline and eliminate manual rework.
- Improve templates, controls, and financial hygiene processes.
- Document PMO financial standards and operating procedures.

Required Skills & Experience:

- 8–12+ years of experience in PMO finance, project/portfolio financial governance, or IT financial management.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience supporting large, multi-portfolio IT environments.
- Advanced financial analysis and Excel skills.
- Deep understanding of CapEx / OpEx mechanics, project accounting, and portfolio financial controls.
- Solid working knowledge of SAP, Planview, and ARIBA.
- Comfortable operating as an expert individual contributor with accountability but no direct reports.

📌 PMO Finance & Vendor Spend Governance Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 NR Consulting
📍 Hyderabad