Senior PMO Analyst (12 month Fixed-Term Contract)

Salary: National ranging from £51,000 - £60,000 and London from £56,000 - £70,000
Are you interested in being responsible for providing project insights to support the outcomes we expect across our financial services?
The team/department
Our Change Directorate is at the forefront of our ambition to transform the FCA into a data-led regulator, and our work enables the FCA to effectively regulate some of the UK's most complex financial markets.
Within the Change Directorate we have EMO, ESG & International (EEI) Change Department. The department is responsible for the delivery of change to help shape and deliver divisional strategies to meet prioritised policy, regulatory and operational outcomes. We combine business and technical architecture, relationship management, portfolio, project and programme management, business change and business analysis expertise.
We support the Enforcement & Market Oversight (EMO) division with responsibilities for primary and secondary market monitoring (including the functions of the UK Listing Authority) and the investigation and prosecution of misconduct; Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) division with responsibility for developing and coordinating the FCA's strategy and commitments in ESG; and the International division that supports the international aspects of the FCA's objectives through relationships and engagement with overseas regulators, governments and stakeholders.
What you will be doing (the role)

• Reporting to the sub portfolio, the Senior PMO Analyst is responsible for providing setup, delivery and analytical service to projects from the Direction stage through to successful completion, that will enable outcome and benefits realisation.


• Implement and ensure consistency and adherence to standardised project controls including governance, status reporting, RAID management, change control, quality management, health checks and stage gate processes and templates


• Support the initial development (where applicable), ongoing maintenance and quality assurance of high level and detailed plans for multiple projects, providing assurance and milestone progress reports in line with standards. Responsible for ensuring that there is a clear rationale and corrective action plan documented where key deliverables have an Amber or Red status


• Provision of financial oversight to projects e.g. collation of financial data, forecasting, financial variance analysis. Highlight issues with budget forecasts and flag where outside of agreed tolerances


• Produce high quality Executive MI, board packs, agendas and minutes to provide insight on how the project is progressing


• Design and facilitate workshops e.g. lessons learned, RAIDs


• Build and manage stakeholder relationships across the FCA, managing expectations and enabling key decision making


• Facilitate the sign-off of key project deliverables and adhere to configuration management standards, ensuring project library document naming and version control standards are adhered to


• Report to the Portfolio PMO Lead and consult with the Central Portfolio Management Unit and Community of Practice (CoP) where needed, ensuring adherence to standards


What you will get from the role

• Working on strategically important initiatives, supporting one of the top 3 priorities for the FCA


• Exposure to significant and complex projects within financial services as part of a sub portfolio


• Providing PMO/assurance oversight in projects involving both the business and IT Change


• Working as part of a central team, supporting the provision of PMO as a service


Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.
Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays


• Private healthcare with Bupa


• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age - up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)


• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary


• Income protection, We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want but we won't judge you for asking.
  
  A track record of delivering PMO and governance services across a range of projects within an organisation of equivalent scale and complexity to the FCA (ideally financial services, government/regulatory body, technology, consultancy)


• Able to provide high quality project/programme/portfolio MI


• Evidence of Project or Programme management certifications (e.g. Prince 2, PMP, Agile, MSPs, P30 or APMP)


Essential

• Methodical and able to justify and make recommendations using programme data and insights to improve project delivery


• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate project information to stakeholders and project teams


• Experienced user of MS Office Suite


• Experienced user of MS Project and Clarity or an equivalent project management tool


• 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 project team members
  
  About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found
here.
The FCA's Values & Diversity
Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.
The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our senior associate role.
Flexible working