PMO Analyst

PMO Analyst
Location: Hybrid 60% office-40% home (any UK location)
Duration: 30/11/2026
Rate 322

MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

Role Description:

The PMO Analyst will provide governance, reporting, and support for change initiatives across the organization, with a strong focus on financial services projects. This role ensures that programs and projects adhere to established standards, processes, and controls-enabling successful delivery of strategic objectives in a regulated environment. The PMO Analyst will work closely with project managers, stakeholders, and senior leadership to maintain transparency, manage risks, and support decision-making. In addition, the role owns the change control cadence and portfolio reporting, coaching delivery teams on best-practice planning and governance.
Key Responsibilities:

• Support the definition, planning, and governance of change initiatives, including operational and technology projects within financial services.
• Own and continuously improve the change control process (request logging, impact assessment, approval and implementation) and coach workstream leads on best practice.
• Maintain accurate project and portfolio data (plans, RAIDs, benefits, decisions), ensuring timely and consistent MI reporting to stakeholders and regulatory bodies.
• Monitor project performance, risks and issues with clear RAG status, escalating where necessary to ensure delivery within scope, time and budget.
• Facilitate planning, dependency and governance workshops; run monthly health checks and lessons-learned activities to drive continuous improvement.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of business cases, budgets, resource plans and forecasts; support recruitment intake workflows where relevant.
• Prepare board packs and portfolio dashboards; ensure outcomes/benefits tracking is established and maintained.
• Enable effective communication across teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and compliance with financial regulations.
• Drive process improvements within the PMO function to enhance efficiency and governance standards.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience in a PMO or project governance role within the financial services sector; prior HSBC experience (must have).
• Strong PMO leadership and stakeholder management with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• End-to-end project support: scope definition, requirements/process mapping (Visio), gap/benefits analysis, solution walkthroughs, test governance and implementation support.
• Expert RAIDs management and portfolio-level reporting (RAG, MI packs) with meticulous attention to detail and data quality.
• Financials: budgeting, forecasting and resource planning; monthly financial tracking and reconciliation.
• Hands-on with PMO and portfolio tools-HSBC Clarity, Planview, Clarizen, (url removed); proficient with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), SharePoint and Teams.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall/Prince2) and governance stage-gates.
• Ability to coach, train and influence delivery teams; comfortable facilitating workshops and assessments in fast-paced, regulated environments.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to tight deadlines with high accuracy.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience preparing board/steering packs and governance documentation.
• Benefits and outcomes tracking at portfolio level; dependency mapping across multiple initiatives.
• Experience with change control at scale (e.g., large multi-project portfolios).
• Process improvement and PMO framework design, including health checks and quality assurance.
• Exposure to business case development and portfolio management.
• OpenShift and infrastructure project exposure (good to have).
• Experience with enterprise finance/procurement tools (e.g., Buying-On-Line/PO management).