PMO Analyst


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Bank of England

Listed on

1st September 2015

Location

London

Salary/Rate

Excellent

Salary Notes

Excellent

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Brief description

We are looking for a PMO Analyst to join us with strong organisation and stakeholder management skills to work on one of our key programmes/projects, which could be related to regulatory changes, technology infrastructure or other high profile change.

The Analyst’s main responsibility is to support the programme in monitoring risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies. They will support the Programme/Project Manager in ensuring that projects are effectively planned, controlled and managed to agreed time, specification and budget.

Department Description

The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom. The Bank exists to ensure monetary stability, contribute to financial stability and carry out prudential regulation and supervision of financial institutions.

Programmes & Transformational Change (P&TC) is part of the Projects, Data and Technology Directorate which is responsible for all aspects of the Bank’s programme and project delivery, in line with the Bank’s strategic priorities. This is achieved through effective central oversight of the Bank’s change portfolio, supported by professional management of significant business change initiatives to ensure successful delivery.

Job description

The PMO Analyst will play an important role within the PMO for one of our programmes or projects, working closely with the Programme Manager / PMO Manager / Project Manager (if applicable).

They will be required to have an understanding of the objectives of the programme or project and will develop and maintain effective working relationships with the programme/project managers, the wider programme and portfolio teams, and any third-party service providers. The specific responsibilities of the PMO Analyst will include:

Monitoring, reporting and analysis of project progress against plan, benefits and scope, providing an early warning of any variances or exceptions, assessing the impacts and recommends actions pro-actively.

Developing, implementing and maintaining a dashboard and supporting MI /standard board pack to ensure timely provision of accurate management information, championing its usage.

Ensuring compliance reporting standards, templates and tools are centrally defined.

Establishing and maintaining a project document library.

Supporting the project budget information and reporting.

Establishing risk, issue and dependency identification processes and monitoring logs for the programme/project, and updating with input from the programme/project teams.

Managing the change control process.

Pro-actively building effective relationships with stakeholders across the programme / project.

Tracking and measuring quality assurance.

As well as delivering their specific programme/project assignments, they will also contribute to the development of the Bank’s PMO capability and community.

Requirements

Experience providing Project Management Office (PMO) services on a programme or project including;

-Planning

-RAID management

-Change control

-Finance tracking

-Document management

-Reporting and monitoring

Experience of working on either IT infrastructure or regulatory change programmes.

Must be numerate with an understanding of budget processes and cost management.

Experience of meeting administration and management, including the planning, preparation, proceedings and post meeting actions and follow up, and ability to record accurate minutes.

Experience of working collaboratively across project and organisational boundaries to achieve shared goals.

Proven ability to interpret multiple sources of complex data to draw conclusions and make recommendations.

Good organisational skills and ability to manage a diverse workload and prioritise amid conflicting demands and busy work periods.

Strong communication skills (verbal, written and presentation) and the ability to develop effective stakeholder relationships.

Experience of taking and producing minutes at meetings.

Excellent MS Office skills, including Microsoft Project and Excel.

Optional

A recognised project, PMO, project support or programme management qualification eg Prince 2, MSP, APMP, PMP or PMI.

To apply

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Closing date: 15th September 2015.

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