Areas Of Expertise:

• PMO Reporting
• Financial Analysis
• Change Specialist

Education:

• Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication (Broadcasting), Centro Escolar University

About Jovilyn

Jovilyn is a skilled PMO Consultant, she joined Seven Consulting’s Manila team in August 2018. 

Jovilyn has over 10 years’ experience in the field of PMO Coordination and Finance Analysis within the banking and IT industries. She is a change specialist with project management office experience using both agile and waterfall methodologies to successfully support project delivery.

What Jovilyn brings

• Excellent communication skills and an ability to interact with a variety of personality types, within different levels of the organisation.
• Exemplifying leadership abilities in training, mentoring and in maintaining a high-quality team.
• Highly experienced in facilitating various project presentations, including documentation and preparation of training materials.
• Skilled in Project and PMO Governance reporting.
• Solid Financial analysis skills.
• Schedule Management & Variance Reporting.

Client feedback:

	Program Manager, Australian Supermarket Chain – 2023 “Ensures my project managers are organised and precise when performing their governance tasks. Jovy is professional regardless of time pressure and challenging stakeholders at times.”
	Praveen Pediredla, Project Manager – 2022 “Proactive in ensuring project plans, reporting and project health checks meet delivery requirements. Professional approach to managing and maintaining stakeholder relationships.”

Key Clients:

• Woolworths Food Group
• Deutsche Bank Group Manila (DBG Manila)
• Accenture
• Sitel Philippines
• Globe Telecom

Key Achievements:

As Program/ Project Coordinator at Woolworths Food Group, Jovilyn supported various projects in the Core Infrastructure Program using both Agile and Waterfall methodology. She worked closely with the program manager and project managers on financial management particularly tracking project spend, variance analysis (actuals vs forecast), resource forecasting and timesheet allocation. Jovilyn was also responsible for providing support to the project managers in overall preparation, documentation and review of project change request submission ensuring governance standards are followed.  

As Program/ Project Coordinator at Woolworths Food Group, Jovilyn supported Group Technology SOI Portfolio in Workforce Management. She was responsible for tracking and maintaining resource plans ensuring that resources due for extension are identified and renewals are processed accordingly. She was also responsible for raising purchase orders, timesheet & invoice approvals. Jovilyn has also supported Cloud Hosting Program on financial management, change request submission preparations and review and project status reporting.  

As Master Scheduler at Woolworths Food Group, Jovilyn supported various projects at Cyber Security and Group Technology SOI. Jovilyn was responsible for the set-up, development, coordination, and monitoring of project schedules through to the complete project cycle.  

As Program Coordinator at Woolworths Food Group, Jovilyn supported the Facilities Management Team on Project Schedule, Financials and Status Reporting. She maintained and tracked the project schedule by providing extracts from MSP (due/upcoming tasks) to the stream leads and coordinated updates. She also maintained Portfolio Financials, creating a time allocation platform to identify resources’ working hours and tracking actuals each week then performing a monthly financial review with the Program Manager. Jovilyn also helped establish a status report template and cadence for the portfolio which was used to present to stakeholders. 

As PMO Consultant at Woolworths Food Group, Jovilyn supported the Facilities Management Team on Project Schedule, Financials and Status Reporting. She maintained and tracked the project schedule by providing extracts from MSP (due/upcoming tasks) to the stream leads and coordinated updates. She also maintained the Portfolio Financials, creating a time allocation platform to identify resources’ working hours and tracking actuals each week then performing a monthly financial review with the Program Manager. Jovilyn helped establish a status report template and cadence for the portfolio which was used to present to stakeholders.

As Project Management specialist at Deutsche Bank Group, Jovilyn provided in depth support to Project Managers globally, ensuring streamlining company methodology and disciplines, using both Agile and Waterfall principals. Jovilyn was part of the successful project delivery, by ensuring project launch, stakeholder mapping, communications plan, set-up and facilitation of project forums. Her skills in consolidated reporting ensured consistently high accuracy. Jovilyn was part of many successfully executed projects. She managed to create and design a new SharePoint site for the Manila Project team – Dashboard reporting. Jovilyn’ s work in the TPAT project was highly regarded, as she was able to successfully coordinate target users and application owners with her mapping and reporting skills. As PMO specialist for DBG, Jovilyn provided governance for change request process for GTO and finance. She monitored and approved change requests raised by the Finance and Operations teams. Providing monthly reports to BMSC teams for auditing. She also created a monitoring, forecast and analysis system for resources for the HR department, ensuring compliance and liaised with hiring managers and vendors throughout the process. Jovilyn led the headcount and seat management analysis, coordinating and liaising with workstream heads and POCs for the headcount forecast, ensuring numbers are reconciled and accurate and consolidated headcount forecast for monthly and year-end report for Seat Demand Analysis.

As Team Lead and supervisor at Accenture, Jovilyn led teams to learn and understand the navigational tools of all the applications needed in the process. She observed the SLA’s and performance measurements assigned, participated in operational excellence initiatives, and supported the functional lead in the management of functions groups. She ensured the development of group members’ skills by providing guidance and worked with management to create and maintain work plans. She also coached inexperienced team members and provided first level advice on procedures and methods.

As Customer/technical service representative at Sitel, Jovilyn assisted customers with issues regarding their credit card account and card activation and provided accurate information concerning fees, statements, information, and general credit card information. She also offered additional products to cardholders through cross sales of products when applicable. Jovilyn also handled customer calls, account inquires, payments and complaints from The Filipino Channel subscribers in North America, Australia, and Europe. Jovilyn created reports on technical issues customers were facing.

As Customer Service representative at Globe Telecom, Jovilyn assisted customers with handy phone applications, inquiries, payments, and complaints and also produced reports on handy applications.