Lead PMO Analyst
Posted 2 weeks ago by British Council
£53,586 Per year
Inside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Lead PMO Analyst is a critical position within the Global Change Programme, tasked with overseeing the development of an integrated view of delivery across approximately 35 interdependent initiatives aimed at achieving sustainable surplus by 2030. This role requires strong analytical skills and the ability to synthesize complex information to provide actionable insights to leadership. The analyst will lead the monthly reporting cycle, ensuring alignment between project plans and overall programme timelines while maintaining high-quality reporting standards. The position demands a proactive approach to challenge and assure project reporting and support governance forums effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the monthly reporting cycle, consolidating inputs from projects through the central online reporting platform.
- Develop a coherent, integrated view of programme progress, including delivery milestones, risks, and issues.
- Produce high-quality Programme Board materials, translating data into clear insights and key decisions required.
- Provide a portfolio-level perspective to ensure a single, aligned view of delivery.
- Work closely with Finance to align project-level reporting and financial performance.
- Act as a quality gate for project reporting submissions, challenging projects on milestone plans and delivery assumptions.
- Maintain and improve PMO reporting tools and processes, continuously enhancing reporting templates and data structures.
- Support governance forums and prepare senior-level materials.
Key Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- 4-7 years’ experience in consulting, transformation, or strategy roles.
- Strong analytical and structuring capability.
- Experience working with multiple data sources and reconciling inconsistencies.
- Proven ability to engage with and challenge senior stakeholders constructively.
- Familiarity with programme or project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP, MSP) is desirable.
- Experience developing and using programme planning and reporting tools, such as PowerPoint and Excel-based trackers.
Salary (Rate): £53,586 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: Other
Contract type : 18 months Fixed Term Contract
Hours: 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Pay band : 8
Salary: £46,203 - £53,586, plus £3,300 London Market Allowance for candidates in the London area only.
Location : UK - London
Closing Date: 24th May 2026
Benefits Include, but are not limited to: 32 days annual leave, in addition to public holidays 3 days volunteering leave Career average defined benefit pension scheme
Requirements: Please note that candidates must have the pre-existing (permanent) legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Visa Sponsorship and relocation assistance is not provided. There is a requirement to be in the office three days a week.
Role Context
The Global Change Programme has been established to achieve an improvement in the profit and loss from current losses to sustainable surplus by 2030, through a combination of business growth and cost savings, divestments, operating model and organisational design changes.
Role Purpose
The Lead PMO Analyst is a pivotal role at the heart of a complex, organisation-wide transformation. The role owns the development of a single, integrated view of delivery across ~35 interdependent initiatives spanning growth, efficiency, and structural change, ensuring leadership has a clear, credible, and actionable understanding of progress, risks, and dependencies. This is more than a reporting role. It requires strong analytical thinking, judgment, and the ability to challenge, synthetise, and influence.
Main Accountabilities
- Programme-level reporting and insights
- In collaboration with the Head of PMO and the Senior PMO Manager, lead the monthly reporting cycle, consolidating inputs from projects thought the central online reporting platform
- Develop a coherent, integrated view of programme progress, including delivery milestones, risks and issues, financial performance
- Produce high-quality, senior level Programme Board materials, translating data into clear insights, key risks, actions and decisions required
- Provide a portfolio-level perspective to ensure a single, aligned view of delivery
- Integrate narrative and financial performance
- Work closely with Finance to align project-level reporting, cost and benefit tracking
- Link delivery narrative with financial data, to provide consistent and credible view of performance
- Identify and challenge discrepancies between reported progress, financial forecasts, realised benefits, and KPIs
- Challenge and assure project reporting
- Act as a quality gate for project reporting submission, challenging projects on milestone plans and sequencing, delivery assumptions, reported progress and risks
- Strengthen milestone planning and identify where projects need stronger planning support
- Ensure alignment between project plans and the overall programme timeline
- Where required, work with project teams to define as refine clear, measurable KPIs
- Maintain and improve PMO reporting tools and processes
- Own and continuously improve reporting templates, central trackers, data structures
Requirements of the role
Minimum/essential
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
- 4-7 years’ experience in consulting, transformation, or strategy role with strong analytical and stakeholder engagement capability
- Strong analytical and structuring capability, with the ability to translate ambiguous inputs into clear, actionable insights
- Experience working with multiple data sources (e.g. HR, Finance, project data) and reconciling inconsistencies
- Experience supporting governance forums (e.g. SteerCo, ExCo) and preparing senior-level material
- Experience developing and using programme planning and reporting tools, such as Power Point, Excel-based trackers, dashboards
- Proven ability to engage with and challenge senior stakeholders constructively
Desirable
- Familiarity with programme or project management methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, MSP)