PMO Analyst

Description

• Perform regular and documented quality assessments within the Portfolio, providing recommendations and support as appropriate. Facilitate post project reviews, capturing lessons learnt and actioning continuous improvements across the delivery communities.
• Monitoring, reporting and analysis of project progress against time, cost and quality expectations, providing an early warning of any variances or exceptions and ensuring compliance with Southern Water project and programme delivery framework, governance and reporting standards.
• Financial management: tracking, reporting, analytics, purchase order and invoice process, financial systems updates.
• Support project, programme, and portfolio level reporting, including analytics to identify issues, trends, gaps, and improvements required.
• Ongoing management and monitoring of the Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAID), for all programmes and projects via regular engagement and challenge with the programme/project teams. Advise and escalate on key areas requiring Senior PMO Analyst and management attention. Review and quality assure project change requests.
• Resource demand management: Support PM with the tracking and reporting demand and assignment for the project, identifying options where shortfalls or conflicts arise
• Responsible for contributing ideas to the ongoing development, and improvement of the Project framework and maintenance of the delivery lifecycle, processes, standards, and templates. Perform administration of tools used in PMO, e.g. Enterprise 1 (Planview PPM tool).
• Project Change Control and quality assurance. Identify trends to slippage.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile).
• Ability to execute in a high demand environment, whilst balancing multiple priorities.
• Experience of project, programme, and portfolio reviews, reporting and analytics
• Excellent communicator, who can engage with all levels of stakeholders across the department.
• Project management experience
• Knowledge PMO and PM tools
• Experience of the full delivery lifecycle and project management tools and techniques.
• Understanding of programme and portfolio management as well as project management
• Demonstrable experience in a PMO or project support role.
• Attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Strong demonstrable experience of scoping and delivering PMO services
• Project Management qualifications, Prince 2, APM, MoP, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience of financial management including tracking and reporting, purchase orders, invoicing, and finance system updates
• Experience of managing resource demand and assignment, identifying opportunities and risks
• Pro-actively forming effective relationships with collaborators across the Programmes/project within Digital.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance