PMO Analyst - Insurance
Posted 1 day ago by William Alexander Recruitment Ltd
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
London, UK
Summary: The PMO Analyst role involves supporting a London Market insurer's Change function by providing centralized portfolio management, governance, planning, reporting, and operational support. The position requires maintaining portfolio visibility, supporting governance processes, and ensuring robust reporting to facilitate successful project delivery across various business and technology initiatives. The ideal candidate will have experience in managing complex change portfolios within the insurance or financial services sector. This role is classified as outside IR35 and offers a competitive market rate with an initial 6-month contract.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and maintain Level 1 and Level 2 portfolio plans across the change portfolio
- Develop and manage the consolidated portfolio roadmap, key milestones, delivery dates, and critical dependencies
- Support quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc portfolio planning activities
- Track portfolio delivery progress and escalate risks, delays, and resource constraints
- Administer and maintain the central implementation tracker
- Manage resource tracking, utilisation reporting, and capacity planning activities
- Review and assure project documentation and governance artefacts
- Track actions, decisions, and outcomes from governance forums
- Maintain PMO standards, frameworks, templates, and best practice guidance
- Support project financial and commercial administration activities
- Coordinate governance meetings, reporting cycles, and portfolio administration processes
- Produce high-quality reporting packs and management information for senior governance forums and executive stakeholders
Key Skills:
- Experienced PMO Analyst with a strong background supporting complex change portfolios within Insurance or Financial Services
- Proven experience maintaining portfolio plans, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and delivery schedules across multiple concurrent projects and programmes
- Strong portfolio reporting experience, including tracking progress against plans, identifying delivery risks, and providing management information to senior stakeholders
- Experience owning and administering central implementation trackers and coordinating regular project status reporting
- Strong resource management experience, including resource tracking, utilisation reporting, forecasting, and capacity planning
- Ability to identify resource constraints, capability gaps, future demand requirements, and delivery conflicts across portfolios
- Experience supporting project governance throughout the full project life cycle, ensuring adherence to governance frameworks and delivery standards
- Strong understanding of project management artefacts including PIDs, RAID logs, project plans, cost trackers, closure reports, and handover documentation
- Experience supporting governance forums including Steering Committees, Project Oversight Groups, Technology Committees, and Executive-level governance boards
- Proven track record maintaining PMO frameworks, methodologies, templates, guidance documentation, and delivery standards
- Experience producing governance packs, portfolio reports, dashboards, and management information for senior stakeholders
- Exposure to project financial administration including invoice processing, contract administration, budget tracking, and commercial controls
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to work closely with Project Managers, Programme Managers, Technology teams, and business stakeholders
- Strong Excel, PowerPoint, and project reporting skills with a highly organised and detail-oriented approach
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
PMO Analyst - Insurance
Our sister company Stellarmann is supporting a London Market insurer in the search for an experienced PMO Analyst to join their Change function. This is a key consultancy engagement providing centralised portfolio management, governance, planning, reporting, and operational support across a diverse change portfolio.
You will play a critical role in maintaining portfolio visibility, supporting governance processes, driving delivery consistency, and ensuring robust reporting and controls are in place to enable successful project delivery across multiple business and technology initiatives.
We are looking for:
Experienced PMO Analyst with a strong background supporting complex change portfolios within Insurance or Financial Services
Proven experience maintaining portfolio plans, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, and delivery schedules across multiple concurrent projects and programmes
Strong portfolio reporting experience, including tracking progress against plans, identifying delivery risks, and providing management information to senior stakeholders
Experience owning and administering central implementation trackers and coordinating regular project status reporting
Strong resource management experience, including resource tracking, utilisation reporting, forecasting, and capacity planning
Ability to identify resource constraints, capability gaps, future demand requirements, and delivery conflicts across portfolios
Experience supporting project governance throughout the full project life cycle, ensuring adherence to governance frameworks and delivery standards
Strong understanding of project management artefacts including PIDs, RAID logs, project plans, cost trackers, closure reports, and handover documentation
Experience supporting governance forums including Steering Committees, Project Oversight Groups, Technology Committees, and Executive-level governance boards
Proven track record maintaining PMO frameworks, methodologies, templates, guidance documentation, and delivery standards
Experience producing governance packs, portfolio reports, dashboards, and management information for senior stakeholders
Exposure to project financial administration including invoice processing, contract administration, budget tracking, and commercial controls
Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to work closely with Project Managers, Programme Managers, Technology teams, and business stakeholders
Strong Excel, PowerPoint, and project reporting skills with a highly organised and detail-oriented approach
Key Responsibilities:
Own and maintain Level 1 and Level 2 portfolio plans across the change portfolio
Develop and manage the consolidated portfolio roadmap, key milestones, delivery dates, and critical dependencies
Support quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc portfolio planning activities
Track portfolio delivery progress and escalate risks, delays, and resource constraints
Administer and maintain the central implementation tracker
Manage resource tracking, utilisation reporting, and capacity planning activities
Review and assure project documentation and governance artefacts
Track actions, decisions, and outcomes from governance forums
Maintain PMO standards, frameworks, templates, and best practice guidance
Support project financial and commercial administration activities
Coordinate governance meetings, reporting cycles, and portfolio administration processes
Produce high-quality reporting packs and management information for senior governance forums and executive stakeholders
This is an Outside IR35 opportunity paying a competitive market rate with an initial 6-month contract and strong extension potential. The role requires 2-3 days per week in the London office.
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PMO Analyst - Insurance