Role Title: PMO Analyst
Duration: contract to run until 30/11/2026
Location: Hybrid 3 days per week onsite. Either Sheffield, Birmingham
Rate: up to £322 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Role purpose / summary
The PMO Analyst will provide governance, reporting, and support for change initiatives across the organization, with a strong focus on financial services projects. This role ensures that programs and projects adhere to established standards, processes, and controls-enabling successful delivery of strategic objectives in a regulated environment. The PMO Analyst will work closely with project managers, stakeholders, and senior leadership to maintain transparency, manage risks, and support decision-making. In addition, the role owns the change control cadence and portfolio reporting, coaching delivery teams on best-practice planning and governance.
Key Skills/ requirements
- Support the definition, planning, and governance of change initiatives, including operational and technology projects within financial services.
- Own and continuously improve the change control process (request logging, impact assessment, approval and implementation) and coach workstream leads on best practice.
- Maintain accurate project and portfolio data (plans, RAIDs, benefits, decisions), ensuring timely and consistent MI reporting to stakeholders and regulatory bodies.
- Monitor project performance, risks and issues with clear RAG status, escalating where necessary to ensure delivery within scope, time and budget.
- Facilitate planning, dependency and governance workshops; run monthly health checks and lessons-learned activities to drive continuous improvement.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of business cases, budgets, resource plans and forecasts; support recruitment intake workflows where relevant.
- Prepare board packs and portfolio dashboards; ensure outcomes/benefits tracking is established and maintained.
- Enable effective communication across teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and compliance with financial regulations.
- Drive process improvements within the PMO function to enhance efficiency and governance standards.
- Essential Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience in a PMO or project governance role within the financial services sector; prior Client experience (must have).
- Strong PMO leadership and stakeholder management with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- End-to-end project support: scope definition, requirements/process mapping (Visio), gap/benefits analysis, solution walkthroughs, test governance and implementation support.
- Expert RAIDs management and portfolio-level reporting (RAG, MI packs) with meticulous attention to detail and data quality.
- Financials: budgeting, forecasting and resource planning; monthly financial tracking and reconciliation.
- Hands-on with PMO and portfolio tools; Clarity, Planview, Clarizen, Monday.com; proficient with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), SharePoint and Teams.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall/Prince2) and governance stage-gates.
- Ability to coach, train and influence delivery teams; comfortable facilitating workshops and assessments in fast-paced, regulated environments.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to tight deadlines with high accuracy.
- Desirable Skills:
- Experience preparing board/steering packs and governance documentation.
- Benefits and outcomes tracking at portfolio level; dependency mapping across multiple initiatives.
- Experience with change control at scale (e.g., large multi-project portfolios).
- Process improvement and PMO framework design, including health checks and quality assurance.
- Exposure to business case development and portfolio management.
- OpenShift and infrastructure project exposure (good to have).
- Experience with enterprise finance/procurement tools (e.g., Buying-On-Line/PO management).
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
