Adesola Oyelesi

Adesola London. Tel: - |E-mail:-PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Results-oriented PMO Professional skilled at overseeing business functions from development to completion, while accomplishing provisional and long-term organisation goals. Experienced in managing governance, compliance, assurance, standards, processes, portfolios, programs, project reports, RAID, plans, budgets, and resources. Proficient with industry best practices in reporting, tracking, monitoring, and controlling using Prince2, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, SDLC, and SAFE methodologies throughout the project lifecycle. I drive the improvements to portfolio delivery in ensuring up-to-date project documentation, and traceability. Provide visibility, oversight, and control of all projects delivered across the business. CORE SKILLS Change management Resource scheduling Governance management Scope management Quality Assurance EVM management Tender management Regulatory change Invoice management Benefits management Procurement Requirement gathering Reporting & Analysis Planning & dependencies Business Improvements Stakeholder management KPI/SLA management Operational change & process Risk and issue management Budgeting and forecasting CAREER DETAILS EO Charging April 2024 – Till Date Position: PMO Process and analyse large data sets to identify movements, trends, insights, and opportunities to improve EMEA’s business performance. Present KPIs and other data using visualisation tools such as Tableau, Excel, and PowerPoint. Contribute to regional annual planning and strategy by providing meaningful data insights. Support efforts to improve data quality by providing operational support for EMEA’s sales team on Salesforce. Assist with regional reporting and forecasting, including content creation for quarterly EMEA all-hands meetings and Leadership Business Reviews, as well as ad hoc data requests. Support EMEA’s leadership team by providing them with accurate data and meaningful insights that support their discussions and inform decision-making. Work closely with the CEO, CTO, and Head of Strategy and Operations to plan and execute strategic initiatives. Recommend improvements to current core functionality to maintain best-in-class services. Lead the ongoing development & documentation of business processes, and procedures, and consistently enhance current practices across the business. Coordinate with Product & Tech teams to identify and prioritise product development. Plan, execute and monitor cross-functional initiatives from strategy, collection, marketing, etc. Produce reports when needed for clients, team members and investors, always looking for ways to improve the process and add value. Roland Berger May 2023 – May 2024 Position: PMO Develop project scopes, objectives and timelines, involving all relevant stakeholders to ensure feasibility. Monitor and report on project risks and issues, ensuring timely resolution. Overseeing all incoming and outgoing project documentation and creating and maintaining project documents and artefacts such as project briefs, timelines, backlogs, release plans, etc. Support with designing and implementing a comprehensive PMO framework, including Standardised processes, methodologies, and templates. Maintaining project management best practices to ensure efficiency and effectiveness across the organisation. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to ensure seamless project execution. Regular interaction with the Executive Committee to support the successful execution of key projects Collaboration with external and internal stakeholders to define project objectives, deliverables, and success criteria. Development of comprehensive project plans, including timelines, resource allocation, and budget estimates. Acting as the primary point of contact for project-related communications, Collaborating with internal teams to identify resource gaps and implement strategies. Developing and implementing quality assurance processes to ensure high-standard project deliverables. Identifying and assessing project risks, developing risk mitigation plans, and monitoring implementation. Conduct regular project audits to identify areas to improve and implement corrective actions. Prepare and present regular project status reports to clients and internal stakeholders. Maintaining accurate and up-to-date project documentation Arranging and hosting project meetings or ceremonies with project leads and issuing regular status updates. Tracking progress using project schedules, burndown charts and other appropriate methods for the project. Using suitable techniques to manage any changes in project scope, timelines and costs. Tracking project spending to ensure the project remains within budget. Minimising project risks by performing risk management reviews with the project leads and relevant stakeholders. Measuring project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques. Identifying and managing project stakeholder relationships using applicable techniques (e.g., stakeholder maps, RACI). Building good working relationships with internal teams and stakeholders, establishing and maintaining relationships with third parties/vendors as required. Promoting best practice project management approaches amongst colleagues and stakeholders. BAE Systems July 2022 – May 2023 Position: PMO Driving governance standards portfolio-wide, including tracking, monitoring, and updating the status of project and program work Ensuring portfolio-level dependencies are handled and the dependency log is accurately maintained Supporting project planning, scope management, forecasting, financial management, and change management activities across the project portfolio Developing and maintaining a range of individual and complex work packages, project plans, and master plans in Primavera P6. This includes designing the entire program/project lifecycle, dependency management, ensuring alignment with PMO standards and processes, and ongoing critical path analysis. Maintaining a clear view of the project baseline and tracking the milestones, resource, cost loading, and spend profiling including coordinating inputs and plan updates across multi-disciplinary teams. Actively driving the development of plans, including close working with project teams, and interacting with the wider teams, sub-contractors, and external partners or clients to ensure programs are coherent and up to date. Actively supporting project collaborative planning and recovery planning exercises Developing, amending, and maintaining resource utilisation and cost-loaded plans, including forecasting. Support quantifying risk and issue impacts on project schedules, agree on mitigating actions, and track progress and delivery of those actions. Led knowledge-sharing activities to develop continuous improvement to services that BAE Systems provide to their clients. Develop and maintain a risk management framework for the PMO and facilitate risk assessment workshops and risk mitigation planning for portfolio projects. Providing advice and guidance to the client in the appropriate delivery approach and its application Support to Planning, including development and updates to Schedules Risk and Issue lifecycle management and maintenance, Project controls implementation and assurance Communications planning, delivery, maintenance, Reporting on key management information assurance Telent Technology Services February 2022 – July 2022 Position: PMO Developed and maintained the Project Management Dashboard demonstrating compliance at the project level for all Network Services. Ensuring a common approach is distilled and shared across the program/projects. Established and tracked program metrics (KPIs). Defined Project Management governance activities, sharing lessons learned across the program. Controlled the project lifecycle/stage gate management process. Supported periodic reviews of delivery performance and progress against contractual requirements and delivered PMO services including planning, resourcing, reporting and 'methods’. Continuously improve PMO processes, toolkits and user experiences. Support the annual portfolio preparation, planning and prioritisation activities. Ensure projects align with the visions and outcomes of Telent’s strategic priorities. Guide project teams through the multi-forum, stage gate approvals process and train them on PMO standards and practices, project controls and risk frameworks. ISCF for Innovate UK (UKRI) October 2021 – January 2022 Position: PMO Analyst Implemented effective mechanism to align benefits to the strategic outcomes, providing assessment and confirmation that delivery of the ISCF Portfolio is on track, and aligned to the overarching strategic objectives. Driving governance standards portfolio-wide, including tracking, monitoring, and updating the status of projects and programs. Ensuring portfolio-level dependencies are handled and the dependency log is accurately maintained. Supporting project planning, scope management, forecasting, financial management, and change management activities across the project portfolio. Manage medium large-scale projects ensuring on-time delivery and quality. Oversees and tracks the performance of the medium and large-scale project(s), ensuring on-time delivery, proactive management, and escalation of risks and issues. Plan, initiate, and support the execution and delivery of projects while adhering to project management processes. Set up project structure including project plan, dashboard reporting, executive reporting, milestone, tracking, and risk logs within Smartsheet. Prepare detailed status updates for projects. Develop and manage a portfolio view of all current and future projects, identifying interdependencies between project scope, timelines, deliverables, and resources. Oversees and tracks project performance and time allocations and assists with resource planning across the portfolio. Greater London Authority February 2021 – October 2021 Position: Senior Programme Officer Identify and report on high risks and issues, lead on the resolution of operational, contractual, and performance issues as they arise for own portfolio of projects and escalate to the management as appropriate. Monitor the activities of the delivery partners and their contractors, ensure all the projects deliver outputs and planned performance is measured to time, budget commitments, and quality specifications. Hold budget accountability for projects within own portfolio, responsible for accurate budgeting, forecasting, and compliance with the approval processes and tracking all financial and regulatory requirements. Collect, analyse, and present accurate and timely monthly performance data as agreed, monitoring assigned projects' current and forecast status and assessing performance against set goals, objectives, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Produced detailed assessment, selection, procurement, negotiation, and ongoing management of internal and external vendors, service providers, and consultants as specific to the digital realm, and performance reviews. Prepared accurate, good-quality responses to project-related questions and correspondence to the Mayor, Assembly members, Government departments, and other organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors, to agreed deadlines. Established and maintained systems and processes to ensure the effective delivery of key projects, ensure the best practice contract management processes, and implement robust systems and procedures to deliver targets from investment frameworks to time, cost, quality, and specification. Liaised with internal legal, compliance, privacy, ethics, procurement, finance, and any other relevant stakeholders for the ongoing delivery of relevant projects and initiatives. Monitored the legal process before signing contracts and grant agreements, to ensure the creation of accurate contract specifications, and to ensure contracts and grant agreements accurately reflect the outcomes desired. Managed resources allocated to tasks by the policies and code of Ethics and Standards. Realise the benefits of London’s diversity by promoting and enabling equality of opportunities and promoting the diverse needs and aspirations of London’s communities. Milestone Technologies - London, UK. July 2020 – February 2021 Position: PMO Managed the transformation portfolio budget, monitored budget expenditures, cost, and reporting against the originally defined budget. Supported project planning, milestone management, scope management, resource forecasting, financial management, and change management across the project portfolio. Managed and compiled program-related financial, Benefits, and KPI information. Tracked project deliverables, status reports, risks and issues, and expenditures. They were providing critical oversight of activities to inform prioritized assurance activities. Developed and supported the Benefits Management Strategy (BMS), ensuring the BMS aligned to the business agreed benefit strategy. Change control/configuration management – rigorously keeping track of the project’s assets. Creating & presenting every week Earned Value Management & portfolio plan as a control tool at the program level to support project managers. Ensured proper stakeholder engagement & management across various levels of projects, programs & organisations. Produced RACI matrix to ensure every task had a role accountable & responsible for it at the project level. Coordinating, scheduling & managing strategic, project review meetings, with the project stakeholders & project teams, taking minutes and distributing to stakeholders appropriately to time. Managed Project Stage Gate Lifecycle. Provided Project and Programme Assurance Reviews and completed Assurance Reports. Facilitating PMO meetings and acting as the first point of contact to manage PM queries. Created reports and governance packs to present to program managers and stakeholders. Plan International March 2020 – May 2020 Position: Senior Project Officer Established Project Governance Structure and prioritized Projects per the Plan’s Strategic Business Objectives. Implement the project framework governance and ensure all portfolios align with standards. Ensure all portfolio projects comply with the Plan’s policies, procedures, and standards. Developed and maintained a compliance tracking system for portfolio projects by tracking the portfolio project progress against schedules, budgets, and deliverables. Generated and distributed comprehensive portfolio status reports, dashboards, and performance metrics. Identified, analysed, and reported on project risks and issues within the portfolio. Provide training and support to project managers and teams on PMO standards and best practices. Implemented lessons learned from completed projects into the PMO methodology. Created and maintained a process for setting up new projects with PMO and Finance systems Established strong relationships across all key stakeholders to influence decisions, ensuring alignment with the delivery framework. Audited the quality and completeness of project documentation to ensure adherence to agreed program standards Managed a central repository of project risk/issue logs producing programme-level summaries as required Coordinated monthly collation of status reports and creation of overall portfolio reports as required. London Borough of Enfield September 2019 – January 2020 Position: PMO Analyst Lead, manage, and set up the project’s change control capability including defining governance, processes, procedures, and systems. Logged and managed change requests in a project change register. Evaluated the impact on baseline success criteria, benefits, scope, quality, time, resources, costs, risks, stakeholder engagement, or any other criteria important to achieving the business case. Facilitated implementing an approved change to the plan, and actions are taken and monitored where necessary. Managed reporting metrics/KPIs associated with change control to allow project management teams to make effective and timely decisions. Analysed data from the monthly report to identify trends and provide advice and commentary. Close integration with other project control functions. Produced, maintained, and managed detailed delivery program plans, monitoring the progress and tracking the plan against baseline dates. Compiled regular progress reports, identifying, and managing project risks/issues. Collaborated with the stakeholders to develop solutions in response to risks/ issues and to manage and control changes in line with established mechanisms for different schemes. Monitored and reported against Budgeted, Forecast & Actual financials whilst tracking benefit realisation. Performed activities required to purchase and receive resources, goods, and services, ensuring adherence to procurement and financial controls. Overseeing program budget forecasts, actively monitoring VOWDs, Capital and Operating expenditure, monitoring the allocated against actuals, fees, recharges, commitments, and assigned. Produced a detailed report to reflect progress for stakeholder consumption. Collated risks/issues updates from the various stream leads for RAID reviews; escalated to the project management office as appropriate. Ensured compliance with the project management methodology and delivery processes. Liaised with the supplier to ensure Programme alignment, being the central point of contact for programme-related information for internal and external stakeholders. Supported the Change management process and facilitation of progress of change control. Produced and distributed progress and highlight reports for visibility for the Programme Board with clear metrics and RAG status. Lead and drive the Programme Stage-Gate process, ensuring mandatory artefacts are produced, reviewed, and approved by required dates. Acting as the quality gatekeeper for project governance, ensuring that the key focus, integrity, and objectives are maintained and achieved. Prepared project reports including status reports, and project dashboards, tracking and analysing budgetary information across the full project portfolio. Produced governance documentation which includes Terms of Reference (TOR), stage gate reviews, project closure/lessons learned reports, agenda, etc. Ensure PMO reporting is insightful and continually adding value to enable Senior Management to make an informed strategic portfolio-level decision. Drive improvement by continuously identifying valuable benefits that enable the PMO to progress to higher levels of maturity. Identifying, assessing, and evaluating risks, evaluating the risk control framework, and implementing measures to mitigate risk. Actively seeking and assessing feedback that impacts change within the portfolios. Ensure project quality, audit, and total health check is established to drive the delivery of programs across the business. Nursing and Midwifery Council - London, UK.January 2019 – September 2019 Position: Programme Support Analyst Monitor and ensure adherence to governance and quality standards, implement governance standards across the portfolio, including tracking, monitoring reporting, and updating the status of the deliverables. Managed the program-level risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies log. Created project plan, produced clear and concise status, and highlight reports. Tracked resource utilisation and expense reporting, Budget, costs, benefits, and KPI tracking using EVM and other tools, dashboard reviewing, and support in creating variance reports. Maintained high-level plans and roadmaps, created, and delivered Agile portfolio and program plans, and created project reports. Produced the monthly Management Information report and board packs, identifying and managing the flow of information to the project board, preparing, and distributing agendas, minute actions, and decision logs. Facilitated the sign-off of key project deliverables and implemented project configuration management standards, ensuring adherence to project naming and version control standards. Managed Programme and Project assurance reviews, including health checks and monthly financial reviews. Managed the end-to-end change control process and facilitated the weekly Change Board sessions. Facilitated regular dependency sessions to ensure strong dependencies are documented and understood across the Portfolio. Coordinated team meetings took minutes and distributed key outcomes to various stakeholders involved in the project. Work collaboratively with the senior stakeholders across the business to ensure they are informed and engaged, as necessary. Organised the steering and governance meetings, produced minutes from program meetings, maintained action and changelog, and followed up on the action and decision updates. Engaged with all relevant stakeholders and supported the Programme Managers in providing regular communications and program status updates, including Board report presentations. Co-ordinated Agile Sprint Planning, Ceremonies, Stand-Ups, Stage Gates, Retrospectives and Releases, and Go/no go meetings. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS Identified systemic corrective actions to improve the quality of the delivery of the project through root cause examination, reducing errors by 45%. Implemented a project management solution that refined the company’s day-to-day processes to effect change resulting in improved efficiency, better quality, and effective project management Developed custom workflows to automate tasking and increase accountability across the team. SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS BSc. Banking and Finance HND Accounting   Professional Membership APM (PMQ) In View PRINCE 2 Foundation by Axelos - (UK) TECHNICAL SKILLS MS Suite (Project, Word & Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, Access), Notes, Oracle, UCM, Visio, Citrix, CRM, PM.com, Planview, Primavera 6, Clarity, System One, RIO, DATIX, Adastra, Google Drive, Basecamp, One Drive, Jira/Confluence, GoToMeeting, Trello, Concur, ADP, Cognos, Bizagi, OPP, COBRA, Predict, Webinar, Azure, Skype, WebEx, SAP, Pillar, Neptune. PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS Prince 2, Waterfall, Agile, SDLC, Safe Agile, Lean, ITIL. ENTERPRISE TECHNIQUES RACI, RAIDs, Moscow, Process Flow Map, SMART Goals, EVM, Stakeholders Analysis/Governance and Configuration Management. References are available on request.