PMO Analyst Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

This 12-month fixed-term contract role, based in our Redhill office, involves collaborating with delivery teams and other functions to manage stakeholder expectations. You will ensure high-quality, accurate, and timely reporting, and adherence to project and program standards

Governance and Control

• Collates status reports and high-quality reporting materials to support governance meetings and ensure they reflect the reality of the delivery


• Manages project estimates and the tracking of actuals and estimates to complete against them, milestone tracking and change control


• Identify and escalate where actuals and estimates to complete suggest issues within the delivery that are otherwise unreported


• Manages & tracks project progress and reports on variance to plan


• May support Jira administration / dashboards from time to time


• Responsible for logistics for meetings, preparation, agenda, papers, minutes.


• Provides analytical support and completes ad hoc requests as required.


• Uses Microsoft Project / Excel and PowerPoint to a high standard


Best Practice

• Actively manage dependencies across projects and programs


• Provide high quality, timely, accurate materials at all times to all stakeholders


• Communicates with all stakeholders to ensure that all central team deadlines are met.


• Coordinates and shares best practices with other PMO roles as needed to drive efficiency


• Ensures that Lessons Learnt sessions are undertaken and ensures all outputs are logged and tracked via a central log


• Ensures that benefit realisations from all deliveries are recorded centrally


• Ensures adherence to all project policies and standards, as set by the PMO Operations Lead


• Supports financial controls, planning and reporting for monthly submissions


• Good knowledge of the software development lifecycle, agile methodologies and how to apply these


Departmental Control

• Works with the functional leaders to define Outsourcing specific practice framework for the PMO function


• Provides regular updates to the leadership team


• Able to support facilitation of workshops from time to time


Business Engagement

• Provides accurate consistent reporting across, projects and programs


• Manages communication with Stakeholders to ensure that progress is clear, and where priorities on Features to be delivered are required, the impact is accurately represented


• Supports the management of project and program Steering Committees
  
  Knowledge


• Experienced and knowledgeable of the PMO function


• Business knowledge to understand the relevant business objectives and issues


• Experienced of providing PMO support within a software delivery environment


Skills

• Literate with Jira and able to manage dashboards


• Ability to draw conclusions from data in a logical, systematic way.


• Highly collaborative and able to pull information from others with minimal impact / oversight.


• Good priortisation skills


• Strong analysis and critical thinking skills


• Comfortable owning discrete deliverables.


• Experience working with onshore and offshore teams.


• Very dynamic and able to work in a changing environment.


• Understanding of the waterfall and agile methodologies


• Excellent MS Excel & MS Project skills


• Excellent time management and ability to meet deadlines


• Ability to perform under pressure


People Skills

• Ability to build strong working relationships, with IT and business managers


• Ability to influence, network and collaborate with stakeholders


• Negotiation and persuasion skills


• Excellent and effective communication
  
  The Outsourcing GB business delivers high quality pension administration services and solutions to clients in GB, Ireland, Germany, and Asia. We provide fully outsourced pension administration services or co-sourced services, where we supply our software for a client to administer their scheme in-house. Outsourcing GB is currently the largest provider of pension administration services to the top 200 private sector funds including several high street banks., At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity.