Transformation Risk and Advisory, Senior Manager, JIRA, AI and Reporting Lead

At PwC, our people in risk and compliance focus on maintaining regulatory compliance and managing risks for clients, providing advice, and solutions. They help organisations navigate complex regulatory landscapes and enhance their internal controls to mitigate risks effectively.

As a risk management generalist at PwC, you will provide advisory and practical support to teams across a wide range of specialist risk and compliance areas.

We are seeking a full-time Senior Manager to join our Transformation Risk & Advisory team as a Jira & PMO Tooling Lead. You will shape and lead the tooling strategy that enables large transformation programs, with a primary focus on Jira and adjacent platforms (e.g., Confluence and Azure Dev Ops), as well as the Power Platform and automation. You will bring hands‑on experience designing, configuring, governing, and scaling PMO tooling, reporting, and workflow automation—partnering with program leadership to drive consistent delivery processes, high‑quality data, and actionable insights.

Our transformation risk and advisory practice focuses on assisting clients that are going through large transformations ($50m+) by providing services that cover transformation strategy, transformation risk management, transformation program management or other related services. The core focus of this team is to work with clients that are going through large transformation programs and help them make these programs successful. We bring an integrated people, process and technology approach to these projects and support the client from “strategy to execution” with their transformation program.

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As a Transformation Risk & Advisory Senior Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead a blended/onshore-offshore team to design, build, and support PMO tooling solutions (dashboards, Power Apps, workflow automation, and emerging AI capabilities) across large transformation programs
• Own the Jira platform for program delivery—configuration and administration of projects, workflows, screens, fields, permissions, issue types, and automations aligned to the operating model
• Define reporting and insight needs with senior executives and translate them into intuitive, automated dashboards and governance packs (status, RAID, dependencies, milestones, capacity, and financials)
• Design and implement data standards and controls for PMO tooling (taxonomy, mandatory fields, quality checks, auditability) to improve reliability of program reporting
• Lead financial reporting and tracking approaches within the program toolset, including forecasting, actuals tracking, and executive‑level financial insights for a C‑suite audience
• Design and implement program governance and program management strategies, including cadence, decision forums, escalation paths, and standard templates
• Stand up and evolve PMO capabilities such as benefits realization, quality assurance, decision management, document management, and integrated planning—enabled through fit‑for‑purpose tooling
• Drive integrations and automation across platforms (e.g., Jira–Confluence–ADO–Power Platform) to reduce manual effort and improve end‑to‑end traceability
• Develop and execute tool rollout, training, and adoption plans; coach delivery teams on best practices and ways of working
• Partner with client and firm stakeholders to gather evidence, assess program maturity, recommend improvements, and create measurable outcomes
• Lead proposal responses and support business development by articulating tooling‑enabled…