PMO & Portfolio Management Consultant

Role: PMO & Portfolio Management Consultant

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

About Accenture

Accenture is seeking a PMO & Portfolio Management Consultant to support the planning, governance, coordination, and reporting of multiple security-related projects for a large banking client in Saudi Arabia.

The role focuses on establishing and operating effective project and portfolio management practices across a complex environment involving multiple stakeholders, vendors, delivery teams, and business functions. Cybersecurity expertise is not required; however, experience managing technology, transformation, risk, compliance, or security-related projects is an advantage.

The successful candidate will help ensure that projects are delivered with clear governance, accurate reporting, effective risk and issue management, strong stakeholder coordination, and alignment to portfolio priorities, timelines, budgets, and expected outcomes.

Responsibilities

Portfolio Management

• Support the management of a portfolio of security-related projects by maintaining a consolidated view of project status, priorities, timelines, dependencies, risks, issues, budgets, and key decisions.
• Develop and maintain portfolio dashboards, executive reports, and management updates for client leadership and Accenture stakeholders.
• Track portfolio performance against agreed objectives, milestones, delivery plans, and expected benefits.
• Identify cross-project dependencies, conflicts, capacity constraints, delivery risks, and escalation items.
• Support portfolio prioritization discussions by providing accurate project data, delivery insights, and impact analysis.
• Ensure portfolio governance forums are properly structured, documented, and supported with accurate materials.

PMO Governance and Control

• Establish, enhance, and operate PMO processes, templates, reporting mechanisms, governance routines, and delivery standards.
• Maintain project plans, integrated master schedules, RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs, meeting minutes, dependency trackers, and status reports.
• Monitor project progress against scope, timeline, cost, quality, risks, and deliverables.
• Support project managers and workstream leads in maintaining consistent project management discipline.
• Ensure project documentation is complete, structured, version-controlled, and aligned with client and Accenture expectations.
• Prepare materials for steering committees, working groups, executive updates, and project governance meetings.

Stakeholder and Vendor Coordination

• Coordinate with client stakeholders, Accenture teams, third-party vendors, technology teams, risk teams, compliance teams, and business representatives.
• Facilitate follow-ups on actions, decisions, dependencies, and pending inputs across multiple parties.
• Support meeting preparation, agenda setting, minutes of meeting, and tracking of agreed actions.
• Help resolve coordination gaps between project teams and escalate unresolved issues through the appropriate governance channels.
• Maintain a professional consulting presence with senior stakeholders in a banking environment.

Reporting and Executive Communication

• Prepare clear, concise, and executive-ready reports covering portfolio health, project progress, key risks, issues, decisions required, milestones, and upcoming activities.
• Develop dashboards and presentation materials using PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI, or equivalent reporting platforms.
• Translate complex project information into structured management insights.
• Support leadership briefings, steering committee packs, and client governance presentations.
• Ensure reporting is fact-based, consistent, and aligned with agreed PMO standards.

Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management

• Maintain and monitor RAID logs across projects and the overall portfolio.
• Follow up with project owners and stakeholders to ensure timely closure of actions, risks, and issues.
• Identify early warning indicators that may impact delivery timelines, budget, scope, or quality.
• Support escalation of critical risks and unresolved blockers to the appropriate governance level.
• Track mitigation plans, owners, target dates, and progress updates.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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