PMO Analyst

1 week ago


Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom Pontoon Full time
PMO Analyst
6 months (Potential for extension)
Northampton - 2 days per week on-site

My high-profile utilities client is looking for a PMO Analyst to work on an initial 6-month contract based in their office in Northampton.

It's a great opportunity to get your foot in the door with one of the UK's and USA's largest utilities clients.


Purpose:


To provide centralised assistance of business change activities and to assist in the evolution of PMO values, governance and service catalogue to reflect strategic or priority changes.

To assist the PMO Manager in driving the change agenda and culture across Commercial, to consistently maximise change value and increase its commerciality.

Provide visibility of deliverables across their assigned elements of the portfolio, and metrics to demonstrate delivery versus target. Manage and/or escalate issues to ensure Project and Portfolio managers are held to account.
Strengthen the alignment and knowledge of stakeholders across Commercial transformational activities

To provide help to the Programme and Project Managers on projects in the execution of the normal project delivery disciplines.

To familiarise themselves and become experts in various areas of Project and Portfolio Management to ensure that they maintain adherence to the minimum reporting and financial management standards.


Dimensions:

  • Liaison with Portfolio Delivery Managers, Senior Project Managers and Project Managers
  • Liaison with senior stakeholders of PMO
  • Liaison with Head of Business Change
  • All PMO governed projects and programmes delivered for the client.
  • Resource Management; Timesheet Management; Business Case & Initiative Management; Financial Tracking
  • Works across a portfolio of projects and programmes for covering both businessonly and ITenabled initiatives

Key Accountabilities:

  • Proactively testing appropriately on delivery management and methodology with mínimal guidance from PMO Manager
  • Assist the reprioritisation of PMO and delivery activities to ensure Commercial Transformation's goals are met and ambitions maintained
  • Assist the alignment and knowledge across a wide range of stakeholders of Commercial Transformation activities.
  • Identify risks and issues based on overall Programme/Project knowledge
  • Act as a conduit between the change functions, IT and Finance to ensure their assigned programmes/project are successfully progressed through Change, Finance and IT processes
  • Aid the development of best practice relating to PMO
  • Be a key player in creating a 'centre of excellence' persona within the PMO
  • Perform regular health checks against key Commercial Transformation's Change programmes and projects to highlight, for ongoing action, any areas of concern or opportunity which are not currently raised within the project governance
  • Ongoing coaching and assistance to Project Managers, helping embed the Delivery Framework
  • Produce the weekly/monthly PMO reporting pack and assist the PMO Senior Team in producing analysis, reports and presentations; maintaining an oversight of all PMOmanaged projects.
  • Carry out project reviews and Healthchecks to ensure all agreed artefacts are tracked and reported on a regular basis and, with particular focus on projects in red or amber status, comprehend what corrective actions have been scheduled by the Project Managers
  • Analyse project financial statements ensuring the reported spend to date and forecast to complete are current and accurate
  • Work with resource leads and PMO Manager to define resource demand and capacity profiles, working to standard resource capacity and demand framework

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

Essential:

  • Be able to work alone as well as part of a team, and be a selfstarter
  • Excellent skills and proficient user of Microsoft Office Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, Visio)
  • Effective stakeholder engagement
  • Strong portfolio management skills.
  • Numerate, commercially astute, and ability to handle large volumes of data efficiently.
  • Ability to understand operational processes and how 4E helps refine these without the need for project intervention
  • Ability to form strong relationships and work effectively across different business areas is required.
  • Strong level of influencing and negotiating skills
  • Ability to interact and share ideas in a small team, whilst sharing opportunities to improve the business as usual deliverables across the wider team.
  • Knowledge of Benefits Management and underpinning KPIs
  • Demonstrable knowledge of planning (scheduling) at a project and programme level
  • Demonstrable knowledge of Resource Management
  • Ability to customise Frameworks and Methodologies to suit specific projects based on financial investments
  • Strong organisational skills and communication
  • Assisting in driving continuous improvement
  • Delivering successfully on time bound activities
  • Experience of working in a Project/Programme Office
  • Basic understanding of project methodologies, Tools & Techniques, and approaches
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to carry out analysis and reporting using various tools
  • Good planning and organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills

Desirable:

  • Experience of working on IT software development projects
  • Experience of working with Third Party suppliers
  • Experience of working with Project Management Systems and SharePoint
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