Associate Director - PMO - US Tax Compliance Domain

PMO (Tax Compliance-US) - Diversity-AD- BLR

Responsibilities will include:

- Act as a lead of rapidly growing Tax PMO team

- Experience in leading PMO for Direct Tax (Corp / Partnership), Indirect Tax (SUT / VAT), Global Mobility Services, Transfer Pricing

- Take ownership of multiple Technology/ Transformation / Global & Domestic Tax Compliance engagements and programs that the team is delivering from Quality and Governance standpoint

- Coaching/mentoring of PMO resources, effectively driving performance reviews, enforcing quality standards

- Lead resource planning and utilization activities to ensure the right resources are matched to implementation scope

- Lead strategic efforts aimed at achieving organizational & business critical goals & initiatives

- Build optimal growth capacity in collaboration with Onshore service line leaders and business partners

- Be a lead to the business by providing high growth solutions and market intelligence

- Bring subject matter expertise and thought leadership on new trend, technology and fir future readiness

- Recognize future looking opportunities and readiness of human resources

- Enable organic growth in the team through coaching and mentoring

- Build relation with enabling functions to serve as one KGS entity

- Work with the Offshore, Onshore and end client stakeholders / leadership to understand expectations on the client services / projects to be transitioned

- Estimate the budgets, resource requirement and risks associated with the process transition more accurately

- Provide assistance to Engagement Leads and team members on transition, ensure all deliverables are completed according to the agreed (comprehensive, realistic and effective) transition plans

- Monitoring and assessing the value delivered to the client throughout the project life cycle ensuring PMO planning tools and methodologies are utilized

- Leading & supporting Design, Mobilization and Execution of PMO activities for medium to large programmes, managing most of the dimensions of Project Management Office/ Programme management Office

- Supporting multiple workstreams to create a centralized PMO organization.

- Developing and maintaining the programme management plan, integrated master schedule, weekly and monthly reporting and financial management

- Managing programme communication, project meetings and outreach to programme teams

- Identifying, recommending and implementing the appropriate tools, methods and templates that are required within the centralized PMO organization.

- Ensuring PMO services are delivered using best in class practices and methodologies - agile, waterfall & Lean project Management

- Developing programme briefings

- Implementing Lessons Learned analysis

- Support in executing engagements and may lead a stream within an engagement. This include pre-engagement work, project planning, develop deliverables, client reports and presentations with minimal guidance

- Attend client meetings and facilitate discussions via seeking and sharing perspectives

- Build and maintain strong working relationships with client

- Design KPIs and demonstrate the strategy expertise like Balanced Scorecard and performance management

- Support in delivery of training related to project management

- Contribute to business development and proposal development with minimal guidance.

- Support in identify possible opportunities that can add value to the business and share them with senior team members

- Use analytical skills to identify business issues and needs

- Support in designing PMO handbook/processes, and conducting the PMO maturity assessment

- Effectively deliver work and project on-time, on-budget within the scope that meets or exceeds client's expectations

- Partake in review on completion of projects to identify lessons learnt and enhance future quality

Clients:

- Support in executing engagements and may lead a stream within an engagement. This include pre-engagement work, project planning, develop deliverables, client reports and presentations with minimal guidance.

- Attend client meetings and facilitate discussions via seeking and sharing perspectives.

- Build and maintain strong working relationships with client.

- Design KPIs and demonstrate the strategy expertise like Balanced Scorecard and performance management

- Support in delivery of training related to project management

- Contribute to business development and proposal development with minimal guidance.

- Support in identify possible opportunities that can add value to the business and share them with senior team members.

- Use analytical skills to identify business issues and needs.

- Ensure knowledge and work-related files are uploaded in the system to enable access and use by others within the firm.

- Support in designing PMO handbook/processes, and conducting the PMO maturity assessment

- Effectively deliver work and project on-time, on-budget within the scope that meets or exceeds client's expectations

- Help in reviewing the work of less experienced members of the Engagement/Project team.

- Partake in review on completion of projects to identify lessons learnt and enhance future quality.