Project Administration Office (PAO) is part of Business Control team which is part of Gofore group finance and responsible for project support functions, project customer invoicing and projects lifecycle management. The team computes, classifies, and records data to keep financial records and project data complete. They perform any combination of routine calculating, posting and verifying duties to make sure that project and invoicing related data is managed and correct. 

The role reports to Head of Business Control. The team is currently located in Estonia. Therefore, the work requires some on-site work in our Tallinn office and occasional travelling to our Finnish offices. The role is about leading the 9-member team of project administration office specialists and managing PAO-as-a-service. The role includes e.g. following tasks 

• defining the PAOs goals, objectives, and overall strategy, as well as ensuring that the PAO runs smoothly and efficiently 
• ensure that PAOs activities align with the organizations goals and objective 
• develop and implement policies and procedures that support the PAOs goals and objectives 
• manage PAOs human, financial and technical resources and ensure that they are used effectively and efficiently 
• monitor, lead, train and manage the team 
• manage HR aspects in the team, e.g. recruitments and salary discussions 
• ensure that PAOs activities and quality comply with organizational standards and regulations and given monthly financial closing schedules 
• support the team-members in their daily work 
• support project managers in Group in similar project administration tasks in ERP system 
• develop and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders, most importantly sales, delivery and finance 
• participate PAOs daily work

Please note well be making interviews already during the application period and will hire the person as soon as we find them.