Senior PMO Manager – Transformation (Finance & Portfolio Oversight)

About the Role

Aviva Life & Pensions Ireland is seeking an ambitious and talented Senior PMO Manager to join the Transformation team in Dublin. You are a commercially minded PMO or Transformation professional with a strong understanding of financial management within change environments.

This is a high-impact role within the Project Management Office (PMO), supporting a portfolio of strategic, regulatory, and risk-driven transformation programmes. The successful candidate will work closely with the Head of Transformation, providing oversight and support to ensure successful delivery across the change portfolio.

While the role spans the full breadth of PMO and transformation activity, there is a strong emphasis on financial governance, cost management, and benefits realisation, acting as a key partner to both programme teams and Finance.

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Financial Management & Governance

• Act as a finance business partner to Transformation programmes and the Finance function
• Oversee portfolio cost management, including budgeting, forecasting, and monthly financial reporting
• Own Transformation cost centres, ensuring accuracy of actuals vs plan and forecast
• Produce and maintain rolling forecasts of change spend, proactively identifying risks of under/over spend
• Manage central allocations and accruals, including payroll and contractor costs
• Support submission of financials to governance forums (e.g. SteerCo, Transformation Committee, Group)

Business Case & Benefits Realisation

• Support the development and validation of business cases, ensuring robust cost and benefit assumptions
• Oversee and track benefits realisation (financial and non-financial) across the portfolio
• Ensure benefits are clearly defined, measurable, and delivered in line with expectations
• Provide constructive challenge where benefits or assumptions are at risk

Portfolio Oversight & Governance

• Provide oversight across programmes covering:
  • Risks & issues
  • Dependencies
  • Business readiness
  • Resource demand and capacity
• Ensure adherence to the Aviva Change Framework and governance standards
• Attend programme working groups and SteerCo forums as required

Management Information (MI) & Reporting

• Produce high-quality portfolio-level MI reporting covering costs, benefits, risks, and resources
• Deliver insights and analysis for:
  • Transformation Committee
  • Executive Committees
  • Group Transformation Office
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities to support data-driven decision-making

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

• Build strong relationships with:
  • Programme leads
  • Finance teams
  • Senior Transformation leadership
  • Group / UK Transformation stakeholders
• Collaborate with other Senior PMO Managers to drive consistency across portfolio management

Leadership & Capability Development

• Provide guidance, training, and support to programme teams across PMO disciplines
• Champion best practice and continuous improvement within the PMO function
• Manage and develop up to 3 team members

Risk & Control Environment

• Maintain a strong focus on risk management and controls, supporting mitigation of delivery risks
• Ensure robust documentation, governance, and monitoring of key performance indicators and risks

Key Requirements:

• Proven experience in a PMO, Transformation, or Portfolio Management role
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost control
• Experience supporting or overseeing business cases and benefits realisation
• Ability to operate at portfolio level across multiple programmes
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with confidence to challenge and influence senior leaders
• Experience producing executive-level reporting and insights

Desirable:

• Experience in Financial Services / Insurance
• Exposure to regulatory or risk-driven programmes
• Experience working with Group or multi-region transformation teams

What We Offer

• Opportunity to play a key role in a major post‑acquisition integration initiative.
• Exposure to senior stakeholders and strategic decision‑making.
• Collaborative, supportive environment with strong emphasis on delivery excellence.
• Hybrid working and competitive benefits.

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we’d still encourage you to apply.

We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part‑time and job‑share options.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, the business and you. Most of our people smart‑work, spending at least 50% of their time in an Aviva office each week.

We’d love you to apply online. If you need a different way to apply, or have questions, please contact me at Katyayani.pathak@aviva.com