Lalitha MITTE

EPMO - Transformation

Working as a Project Management Office associate in Data Reporting & Insight and Control team

Job Responsibilities -

• Member of PMO advisory council that set project priorities based on expected benefits, alignment with company strategy, and resource allocation
• Implementing Project Management Methodology/Framework that aligns with the company/Business Standards
• Responsible for the overall management of Project budget, schedule, and scope for major/critical projects in the Bank
• Planning the program and monitoring overall performance against the PMM framework
• Provide a structured governing project management body
• Provide a central repository for all projects and project information
• Provide a centralized management structure for all project management functions
• Provide a single portfolio-view of change programs and projects in the bank, providing the broader transformation team as well as global businesses and function executive and clear understanding of the portfolio profile, the expected and/or realized benefit, portfolio status
• Outline a well-defined project management process or methodology, guidelines, and templates in line with the company/business best practice and client requirements
• Enable processes for the appropriate management of risks, ensuring the team applies corrective measures to mitigate risks efficiently
• Managing communication across all Project stakeholders, Partners with stakeholders to lead the project scope, definition of the project deliverables, and the required delivery dates
• Create a logical work breakdown structure and definition of major project milestones
• Understands organizational/initiative goals and success criteria to apply to project work
• Identify, track and manage Program Deliverables and Milestones
• Preparing executive MIs like ToEC (Transformation Oversight Executive Committee) which portraits of High Investment Initiatives to the bank Business/Portfolio leads which are presented in SteerCo meetings
• Along with data aggregation, we also provide insights into the data
• Experience in Agile, Waterfall Project delivery methodologies
• Experienced in data-focused approach to understanding business needs, translating strategic objectives into action, and prioritizing value delivered
• Experienced well in prioritizing work based on business needs and a strong focus on execution and identifying, communicating, and removing impediments to progress
• Respond to ad-hoc requests like preparing Insights for Persistent Red/Amber projects, Budget spending for different Cost types, providing Top Regulatory/ Technology projects, etc., from the executive management team to support critical decision making
• Providing specific insight over and above the data aggregation view on cross-portfolio dependencies and impact on global businesses/functions
• Experienced in Vendor Managements activities like – being involved with the purchase order and invoicing process for 3rd party vendors

• Led Central Programs with Budget of over $100M into CTB – Change the Bank initiatives
• Attend the kick off meetings to understand the requirements of the project, prepare the Budget document to tally with the funds that has been approved for the business area
• Responsible to prepare the resource demand and supply chart for the new projects proposed and for the upcoming projects that are list for the next quarter/year
• Along the resource count, Business Justification/rationale is important to portray in front of the Global Head/Business leads
• Once the Program/Project kick starts, responsible to prepare project Status Charter with RAG status, Risk, Issues, Highlights, Lowlights, Budget Concerns, Issues that has to be escalated etc., in one slider
• There will be regular catch up with Program/Project Manager/Leads to provide the latest updates on the projects
• This process will be continued until the Project is executed
• Handle resource reports for both Permanent and Vendors – renew the vendors as per the tenure
• Expert in Reporting and Data Analysis – Perform data collation and analysis on historic data to compare with the current data
• In order to derive at a meaningful business Insights, graph view using Tableau platform
• This is presented to Global Business/Function Heads
• Key achievements and value adds – Well experience in setting up data from multiple sources and standardizing data reconciliation processes for the team
• Project documentation, project charter, Tollgate states of individual project, end stage reports, business cases, resource management
• Risk and Issue management, quality checks and change management
• Project planning, resource allocation and monitoring, estimating and budget management
• Project communications, hosting OpCo meetings, project board meetings and communication plans
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks

• Worked as a member of Global Intra Reconciliations, preparing accounting reports