Project manager roles and responsibilities

Project manager are accountable for budget management tasks including reporting, tracking spend, updating My Oracle.

A project manager is responsible for the day to day management of a capital schemes including the management of the budget.

Aa a project manager, you will need to make sure that the resources are used for their intended purposes and accounted for.​

You will need to:​

  • understand how your capital schemes, how the scheme budget is made up, and what you spend money on, such as fees, construction
  • set up new projects on My Oracle (Projects)​
  • make sure there are no commitments that would result in exceeding an approved budget. You must get prior approval to increase the budget either by virement or by a supplementary estimate before making additional commitments​​
  • make sure that orders are receipted​​
  • update the My Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) system for changes to the capital budget forecasting​
  • update the capital variance plan on My Oracle (PBCS) system ​
  • track and report your forecast position regularly, and understand whether you expect to under or over spend​
  • make you understand the financing position of your capital scheme(s)​