PMO

PMO x 4

6 months contract

London/ Hybrid

£650 per day Inside

Client: Financal services

The Senior Associate PMO Associate Analyst role sits within the Divisional Service Team and is responsible for providing setup, delivery and analytical service to Programmes and Projects from the idea stage through to successful completion, that will enableoutcome and benefits realisation. The role holder will be dedicated to enabling delivery of projects, particularly medium to high risk or high reputation projects, with expected contributions to the PMO Community of Practice (CoP). He/she will have a strongtrack record across a range of projects and will have a keen interest in developing people and the PMO practice.

**Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities**:
**People Management**:

- No direct or indirect line management responsibilities, however the role holder is expected to mentor and/or coach junior PMOs in the team. For example, to support Associate PMOs in developing project capability or soft skills.

Community of Practice:

- Taking a prominent and active role in supporting the PMO Community of Practice. Actively supporting or leading other PMOs on key CoP initiatives.
- Shares PMO ways of working with other PMs/PMOs working across your team. For example,

inducting permanent or contractor PMOs on the delivery framework and methodology, reporting standards, forecasting approach etc.

**Project Delivery**
- Supporting divisional portfolio of change activities, where necessary, and leading full lifecycle PMO service on significant and complex programmes and projects, either in a standalone PMO function or leading the tasks of other PMO analysts in the deliveryof the PMO Service.
- Leading initial development, ongoing maintenance and quality assurance of high level and detailed plans for programmes or multiple projects, providing or assuring provision of regular plan and milestone progress reports.
- Designing and facilitating workshops, and defining programme level ways of working on RAID, change control, quality management and health checks.
- Leading provision of effective finance administration service to programmes or multiple projects, e.g collation of financial data, forecasting and financial variance analysis.
- In liaison with PMU and CoP, ensuring adherence to stage gate or applicable checkpoint governance process on programme or across multiple projects, facilitating the sign-off of key project deliverables and implementing configuration management standards,ensuring project library document naming and version control standards are adhered to.
- Defining, implementing and managing programme level governance and reporting, producing or leading provision of executive MI report/EFDC and board packs, quality data reporting in Clarizen, identifying and managing of flow of information to the projectboard, preparing and distributing agendas, minutes and actions/decisions list.
- Responding to Ad-hoc requests for information in relation to the portfolio, programme or project.

Minimum Criteria:

- Has led or contributed to PMO in a medium / large project or programme

Essential Criteria
- Analytical and able to justify and make recommendations using programme data and insights to drive the programme forward
- Excellent communication skills, able to articulate programme information to stakeholders and programme teams
- Experienced user of MS Office Suite
- Experienced user of Clarizen or an equivalent system
- Strong attention to detail both in completing PMO tasks and in quality assuring the work of peers and team members.
- Ability to build strong and effective relationships with stakeholders and programme team members
- Outcome focused with the ability to link day-to-day tactical delivery to programme objectives
- Ability to identify root causes, trends and drive continuous improvement.
- Expertise and substantial experience providing a stand-alone PMO service to significant and complex programmes or projects and/or leading other PMO analysts on programmes within financial services, large corporations or government IT environments
- Project or Programme management certifications (e.g. Prince 2, PMP, Agile, MSPs, P30 or APMP).