PMO Analyst

Permanent role - pay £70,000

We are working with a Financial service company who is after a PMO Analyst to work within the Programme Management Office, supporting portfolio governance, reporting, and delivery oversight across multiple projects and change initiatives. The role ensures strong control of programme delivery, accurate reporting, and effective management of risks, issues, and benefits.

This role is heavily aligned to change delivery, supporting the coordination, tracking, and governance of business and technology change across the organisation.

Main Purpose

The PMO Analyst will support the PMO function in delivering effective change governance and portfolio control, including:

• Supporting the adoption of the project lifecycle and deliverables; programme level risk and issue coordination; monitoring the status of projects transitioning into normal service; coordination of the regular project and programme level reporting cycles; co-ordination of project Governance arrangements, Post Project Reviews, Programme level workshops.
• Implement governance standards across the portfolio
• Supporting end-to-end project lifecycle governance and standards
• Coordinating programme-level change activities, including business and technology change tracking
• Managing risks, issues, dependencies, and escalation processes
• Supporting transition of change initiatives into BAU (business-as-usual)
• Coordinating portfolio reporting cycles and governance forums
• Supporting Post Project Reviews and continuous improvement activities
• Ensuring consistency of PMO and change governance standards across the portfolio

Key Skills & Experience

• Building relationships, managing expectations, and influencing without authority.
• Focus on PM tools, reporting, data collection, and documentation
• Navigating changes in project scope, priorities, or organizational structure.
• Coaching project teams and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Capacity planning, forecasting, and balancing workloads across the portfolio.
• Focuses on improving organizational capability, such as mentoring, training, and implementing new standards
• Excellent planning and administration skills
• Experience of working within banking or financial services
• Experience with driving development and adoption of good practice, coaching and oversight of project’s delivery status, risk and issues.
• Experience working with global stakeholders or stakeholders across different levels
• Data Analytics and Insight
• Agile
• PMP, Prince2 or P3O qualifications is highly desirable