Senior Specialist - Program & Project Management

We need a PMO with preferred Fraud Technology experience.

Location: Irving, TX

Portfolio Governance & Executive Reporting Lead

Fraud Technology

Role Summary

The Portfolio Governance & Executive Reporting Lead will provide centralized oversight and reporting for the Fraud Technology portfolio. The role will bring together project delivery, financial performance, resource information, risks, and accomplishments to provide leadership with a clear and reliable view of portfolio health.

This individual must be comfortable working with detailed data while also translating it into concise executive-level insights, presentations, and recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Governance and Reporting

• Coordinate the reporting calendar and governance routines for the Fraud Technology portfolio.
• Consolidate project updates, milestones, accomplishments, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
• Maintain a consistent view of portfolio health and challenge incomplete, outdated, or unsupported information.
• Track leadership decisions, action items, accountable owners, and completion dates through closure.

Financial Reporting and Forecasting

• Consolidate budgets, forecasts, actual spending, resource plans, and known financial commitments.
• Prepare financial summaries, variance analysis, and forward-looking projections.
• Identify funding pressures, underspending, forecasting gaps, and other items requiring management attention.
• Reconcile financial results with hiring plans, delivery progress, and project commitments.

Project Status and Risk Oversight

• Monitor project status across the portfolio, with particular attention to initiatives requiring intervention.
• Review recovery plans and track progress against agreed actions and milestones.
• Analyze changes in portfolio health and identify recurring risks, delivery concerns, and cross-project dependencies.
• Escalate material issues with clear impact, ownership, and recommended actions.

Executive Reporting and Analysis

• Prepare executive dashboards, operating reviews, financial updates, and leadership presentations.
• Convert detailed project and financial data into clear portfolio themes and management insights.
• Develop concise narratives that explain what has changed, why it matters, and where leadership action is needed.
• Ensure consistency across financial reports, project updates, dashboards, and executive presentations.

Workforce and Hiring Reporting

• Maintain an accurate view of open positions, hiring stages, projected start dates, and staffing gaps.
• Track employee and contractor hiring activity, including vendor candidate submissions.
• Identify aging vacancies, process bottlenecks, and resource constraints that may affect delivery.
• Connect workforce plans to financial forecasts and project requirements.

Portfolio Planning and Improvement

• Support demand intake, prioritization, annual planning, and development of the portfolio roadmap.
• Maintain visibility into new requests, approved work, deferred initiatives, and changes in scope.
• Improve reporting templates, data quality controls, and management processes.
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting and reduce manual data consolidation.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience in portfolio governance, financial management, executive reporting, program management, or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills, including the ability to reconcile data and identify trends, gaps, and inconsistencies.
• Advanced Excel skills, including financial analysis, data manipulation, formulas, pivot tables, and management reporting.
• Advanced PowerPoint skills, with the ability to create clear and polished presentations for senior leadership.
• Experience preparing budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, project reporting, and executive dashboards.
• Strong written communication and executive-storytelling skills.
• Ability to move from detailed data to a concise explanation of performance, risks, and required decisions.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple reporting deadlines and stakeholders.
• Experience in financial services, technology, fraud prevention, risk, or controls is preferred.

Measures of Success

• Accurate and timely portfolio and financial reporting.
• A consistent view of project status across reporting channels.
• Early identification of financial, delivery, staffing, and dependency concerns.
• Clear executive materials that support decisions and action.
• Improved data quality and accountability across the portfolio.
• Timely closure of leadership actions and commitments.