Sr PMO Analyst - Financial Services, Agile, Data, Excel
Posted Today by TXP
£500 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Warwickshire
Summary: The Senior PMO Analyst/Lead role involves overseeing governance boards and managing operational PMO tasks within a large transformational programme for a financial services client. The position requires hands-on experience in PMO functions, stakeholder management, and the ability to quickly adapt to complex environments. The successful candidate will also mentor PMO Coordinators and contribute to quality assurance processes. This role is based in Warwickshire with a hybrid working arrangement, requiring one day onsite per week.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead relevant governance boards and manage meeting agendas and follow-up actions.
- Hold weekly meetings with Programme Manager/Release owner to discuss resource, budget, plans, and risks.
- Deliver a formal written healthcheck every three weeks on plans, risks, and resource performance.
- Mentor PMO Coordinators on data gathering and insight usage.
- Develop quality assurance ideas and improve processes during the contract.
- Demonstrate best practices in governance and share reports/data with the wider business.
Key Skills:
- Significant experience in senior PMO analyst roles within large transformational programmes.
- Generalist PMO experience including planning, scheduling, and running a Change Control Board.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Proficient in MS Office, especially Excel.
- Understanding of governance best practices and coaching abilities.
- Agile mindset and methodology experience.
- Recent experience in highly regulated environments, preferably financial services.
Salary (Rate): £500/day
City: Warwickshire
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior PMO Analyst/Lead
£500.00 Per Day (Inside IR35 via Umbrella)
Duration: Min 6 months
Location: Warwickshire - 1 day per week onsite, rest remote working
Candidates MUST live within commutable driving distance of Warwickshire. Applications without a specified location will not be processed. A full UK driving licence and own transport is also required.
Our leading financial services client in the West Midlands is seeking a hands on PMO Specialist/Lead with large transformational programme experience, who can get up and running in a complex environment quickly.
The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate generalist PMO experience and the level of detail to get involved in the day to day operational hands on PMO work (planning, scheduling etc).
Role:
- Lead relevant governance boards, liaise with Programme Manager chair to agree agenda ensure pre read packs are collated and 'assured' in advance of distribution and ensure flow of meeting is managed within time and follow on actions/decisions are distributed within 48 hrs
- Hold weekly meetings with your Programme Manager/Release owner, to discuss concerns and challenges around data on resource, budget, plans and risks
- Deliver and discuss a 3 weekly formal written healthcheck across the Release for plans, risks, resource and any other insight on performance at workstream level to improve the delivery for the Release and Programme
- Mentor PMO Coordinators, as required, around gathering and using accurate data and insight from other sources, ranging from PM 121s or existing Programme data such as resource management spreadsheets
- Develop ideas for further quality assurance, working closely with other PMO specialists and PMO Data and Insight roles, to show at least one improved process by end of contract
- Demonstrate best practice around governance, gateways and lessons learned for your Release, with a clearly delivered report/data to share into wider business
Essential Experience:
- Significant experience in a senior PMO analyst roles within large transformational programmes
- Generalist day to day PMO experience - operational hands on PMO work (planning, scheduling, running a CCB/Change Control Board etc).
- Ability to get up and running in a complex environment quickly
- Confidence in stakeholder management and communication skills in the presentation of ideas/challenge
- MS office skills, especially Excel
- Understanding of best practice for governance with the ability to coach less experienced team members
- Agile mindset and methodology
- Recent experience working in highly regulated environments - ideally financial services
If you have proven experience in the above areas - please submit your application ASAP to Jackie Dean at TXP for consideration.
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