PMO Analyst - 12 month FTC
Posted 1 week ago by TieTalent
£48,500 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The PMO Analyst role is a 12-month fixed-term contract focused on supporting a progressive organization undergoing a transformation program. The position involves maintaining project management standards, providing best practice advice, and ensuring accurate reporting for strategic projects. The role requires strong Excel skills and stakeholder engagement to enhance the Portfolio Management function. This opportunity offers a competitive salary and generous benefits, including hybrid working arrangements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain the Portfolio tracking and status reports ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
- Develop and improve project and portfolio control documentation.
- Support effective monitoring and reporting of the Strategic Portfolio of projects and programmes.
- Provide 'best practice' advice to Project Managers regarding project control.
- Manage day-to-day Portfolio Management/SDO operations to required quality standards.
- Assist in developing the Portfolio Management function as a 'centre of excellence'.
- Ensure high standards of professionalism and quality standards are met.
- Provide key performance and financial metrics to management stakeholders.
- Engage and manage stakeholders effectively.
- Provide project assurance and audit functions for Strategic Projects.
- Assist in tracking and managing the realization of benefits.
- Assist in assessing and managing risks, issues, changes, and cross-project dependencies.
Key Skills:
- Proven background in delivering within a busy PMO.
- Very strong MS Excel skills to macro level and complex spreadsheet reports.
- Stakeholder management and engagement.
- Excellent communication skills - written and verbal.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-moving environment.
- Additional skills in MS Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and ideally MS Projects.
- Ability to work remotely while building strong internal relationships.
Salary (Rate): £48,500 yearly
City: City of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Project Management
About PMO Analyst - 12 month Fixed Term Contract - £45 - £48.5k + Fantastic Lifestyle benefits
Tria Recruitment are very pleased to be appointed as the exclusive sourcing partner with a progressive organisation that are going through a long-term transformation programme that is facilitating positive change throughout all departments & levels. This is an exciting & rewarding opportunity for a PMO Analyst to expand & work within the overarching strategic delivery & PMO office, which is the central Professional Services function in the organisation and its primary purpose is to maintain the process and reporting standards for programme and project management for strategic aligned projects. This friendly team is the primary central source of strategic Project documentation and processes and provides advice and guidance on the best practice of programme and project management and execution, to ensure a constant standard across different business practices.
Duties And Responsibilities Include, But Not Limited To
- Maintain the Portfolio tracking and status reports ensuring they are accurate and fit for purpose to the required timelines.
- Strong Excel Skills required
- Continually develop and improve project and portfolio control documentation
- Support the team in the effective monitoring and reporting of Strategic Portfolio of projects and programmes
- Provision of 'best practice' advice to Project Managers regarding project control
- Management and execution of the day-to-day Portfolio Management/SDO operations in a timely manner to the required quality
- Assist with the development of the Portfolio Management function to ensure it becomes a 'centre of excellence' for everything project and programme related
- Ensure defined quality standards are met by maintaining high standards of professionalism
- Ensure Project Managers provide accurate project information for Portfolio Reporting in a timely manner and to the required quality
- Provide key performance and financial metrics to key management stakeholders and highlight any anomalies or 'out of tolerance' projects
- Stakeholder engagement & management
- Provision of a project assurance and project audit function for Strategic Projects
- To assist with the tracking and management of the realisation of benefits
- To assist with the assessment and management of risks, issues, changes and cross project dependencies
Experience required:
- Proven background of delivering within a busy PMO
- Very Strong MS Excel skills to macro level & complex spreadsheet reports
- Stakeholder management & engagement
- Excellent communication skills - written/verbal
- Ability to multi task and prioritise in a fast moving environment
- Additional skills in MS Word, Powerpoint, Visio & ideally MS Projects
- Ability to work remotely whilst still building strong internal relationships is essential.
The role is offering a salary of up to £48.5k initially, depending upon experience and the holidays are 42 days broken down as = 31 days standard + Christmas shutdown (min of 3 days) + 8 days bank holiday + very generous pension and flexibility on hybrid working from home as well. (2 days a week in the office) This is a 12 month fixed term contract with good scope for a long term permanent role in the future. Please share your latest CV for review
Nice-to-have skills
- MS Word
- Powerpoint
- Visio
City of London, England, United Kingdom
Work experience
General Project Management
Languages
English