Close date:
Friday, 01 July 2022
Working pattern:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent
Location:
London
Department:
24 - Professional Services & Consulting
Description & Requirements:
Position Purpose
The PMO at Bravura is the information hub for all our projects; The PMO Analyst is an integral member of the PMO team thus having exposure to a diverse range of high-profile projects and industry leading clients.
The PMO Analyst will be responsible for providing project support and owning actives including governance, assurance, quality control, information management, financial tracking, risk/issue tracking and change control.
Main Activities
- Project Support: Day to day support to Client Project Managers, assist with project status reporting and ensure key reporting milestones are met;
- Cross project communication: work with Project and Programme Managers to produce and maintain project plans and related project control documents;
- Standardisation: Support the implementation of a quality strategy including the implementation, monitoring and control of new process;
- Project Governance: Maintain issues, actions and risks logs, maintain the project change log, maintain detailed resource plans that align to client budgets, assist with financial reporting process;
- Continuous Project Management Improvement: support the PMO Manager to achieve core PMO functional milestones
Key Skills
- Strong customer service ethos, a commitment to quality and the will to constantly drive improvements
- Financial management / reporting and analysis skills
- Knowledge of project management methodologies (PRINCE2, PMQ …)
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced matrix-based environment
- The ability to understand complex financial reports
Personal Characteristics
- Consultative and an effective influencer
- Ability to apply analytical skill and conceptual thinking to project related activities and work
- Ability to collaborate with clients
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation and facilitation skills
- Resilience including the ability to work effectively under time pressure
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Proactive approach to work
- Proven eagerness for continual personal development
- Commercial awareness
- Capable of working on-site at client offices
Qualifications and Experience
- 4+ years’ experience working in a PMO and across Technology based projects
- An in-depth understanding of MS Office applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Project
- Experience working in Financial Services or a FinTech organisation is desireable