PMO Analyst - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Job Title:
PMO Analyst

Location:
London

Contract type: 6 months (Inside IR35)

About Columbia Threadneedle Investments

Working at Columbia Threadneedle Investments you'll find the promise we make to our clients is the same one we make to our employees: Your success is our priority.

Here, you'll find growth and career opportunities across all of our businesses. We're intentionally built to help you succeed. Our reach is expansive with a global team of 2,000 people working together. Our expertise is diverse with more than 450 investmentprofessionals sharing global perspectives across all major asset classes and markets.

Our clients have access to a broad array of investment strategies, and we have the capability to create bespoke solutions matched to clients' specific requirements.

Job Purpose Statement

Support the PMO lead within the RI programme to help monitor project performance against agreed targets (plan, financial performance, governance and change controls, risk and issue mgmt.) In addition the PMO Analyst will help support implementation of strategicchanges to core processes resulting from the ongoing implementation of a business change capability within Columbia Threadneedle.

Role Responsibilities

Provide PMO support to the Responsible Investment programme and associated business leads. Support the delivery of large and complex business projects that are often crossorganizational initiatives in support of strategic objectives. Ensures that all projectsare managed within the company's project delivery assurance framework and quality measures. Key role will be to help the Lead PMO to provide analytics across all project plans and business cases to monitor current status of delivering business benefits throughcapability delivery from the projects. Expected to be comfortable understanding programmes and associated financial business cases up to £20m.
Provide direct support to up to project managers to ensure that all expectations are met around the project reporting cycle. A key aspect of this will to ensure that PMs are on top of plans, dependency logs, financials, risks and issues, change requests,as well as supporting PMO lead with providing analytics up to the programme mgr so that context is provided around thematics that are impacting the portfolio. Additional support will be needed to raise quality levels of reporting ensuring that messaging iscrisp, concise and precise and related to business drivers and outcomes.
Provide secretariat duties to the programme. This will include drafting of initial papers and providing guidance to the programme manager and sponsors around decisions due and helping to pull together supporting information. Production of minutes and trackingall other in and outbound actions from other internal governance bodies will also be an important part of this role.
Onboarding and Business Mgmt. support the role holder will be required to work with the Change Operations / Business Management areas of Change ensuring that there is efficient management of items that impact the functioning of the RI programme. Thiswill include monitoring of resourcing onboarding, liaison with GTC Ops and Tech for technology and facilities provision, developing suitable onboarding plans to assist with quick familiarisation of CTI people, tools, and practices for any new hires.
Supporting the PMO lead as required with leading key issues that require ownership & selfstarting this could include anything from a project financial deep dive to undertaking a programme wide check on resource plans against changes in business appetite(i.e support the programme manager in simulation of upscaling / downscaling the team, should budgets move).

Key Capabilities

Solid experience in utilizing industrystandard project management methodologies and tools
Solid demonstrable understanding of project accounting and how to develop business cases and then translate and monitor into project cost models and forecasts. Individual should understand clearly 3rd party P2P processes and how to reconcile a monthly ledgerposting.
Demonstrated experience in supporting largescale project initiatives to successful completion and implementation.
Strong relationship building skills; highly effective communication skills that include ability to gain acceptance of others to a point of view.
Ability to identify and provide support to resolve/mitigate issues or risks associated with projects.