Safir Pathan

Finance PMO

Tesco • Temps plein

Apr 2024 - Nov 2025 • 1 yr 7 mos

Managed 120+ purchase orders for third-party suppliers across a £55M–£60M annual portfolio, ensuring 100% accounting-period compliance and zero vendor payment delays.  Partnered with 30+ cross-functional stakeholders and the controls team to monitor actuals vs. forecast across 65 concurrent projects, proactively escalating budget overruns, FTE gaps, and schedule risks to C-suite before they impacted delivery.  Produced portfolio-level YTD vs. forecast and YTG projection reports using Planview and Tableau, enabling finance and technology directors to reallocate resources and budgets with confidence.  Owned OPX reporting for BAU activities and multi-year licence spend, providing tech directors with clear visibility into ongoing operational commitments and future cost obligations.  Streamlined FTE cost uploads to visualisation tools, enabling project managers to track resource utilisation in near real-time and improving forecast accuracy across the programme.  Owned and maintained the programme-level risk register across all projects, categorising risks by probability and impact, assigning ownership to accountable stakeholders, and ensuring timely mitigation actions were tracked through to closure.  Maintained a live Issues Log to capture and escalate emerging delivery blockers — including budget overruns, FTE unavailability, and supplier delays — ensuring no issue remained unowned beyond a defined resolution SLA.  Produced weekly governance packs for senior leadership and C-suite, consolidating RAID status, financial health, and milestone progress into a single source of truth, enabling consistent decision-making across the portfolio.  Enforced change control discipline across projects by flagging scope creep and unbudgeted activity early, preventing unauthorised spend from eroding programme contingency reserves.

PMO Manager

Fractory • Temps plein

Sep 2021 - Nov 2024 • 3 yrs 2 mos

 Served as central PMO point of contact for a growing account portfolio, orchestrating project initiation, risk tracking, and resource allocation across 30+ stakeholders within a 24-hour turnaround — contributing to account revenue growth from $14M to $18M (29% increase).  Executed weekly and monthly financial operations including revenue forecasting, recognition, invoicing, accruals, and Bid vs. Did variance analysis across the full portfolio.  Maintained and enforced SOW and MSA documentation standards, ensuring contractual compliance and reducing commercial risk across all active engagements.  Built and operationalised a RAID framework from scratch across the PMO function, standardising how project teams identified, logged, and escalated threats, reducing unplanned delivery failures across the portfolio.  Maintained a live Risk Register and Issues Log across all active accounts, categorising risks by probability and impact, assigning clear ownership, and tracking mitigations to closure — ensuring no risk remained unresolved beyond agreed thresholds.  Chaired weekly governance review meetings with project managers and account leads, using RAID outputs to drive accountability, surface cross-project dependencies, and escalate critical risks to senior leadership with recommended actions.  Designed and implemented a governance framework to track project, account, gross, and net operating margins — providing leadership with end-to-end financial visibility and enabling proactive margin management.  Supervised and mentored 3–4 contractor resources, ensuring alignment with project workflows, quality standards, and delivery timelines.