Senior PMO Analyst - England, United Kingdom - Pontoon Solutions

Description

Job Description

To support the provision of Product and Platform office and expertise to the UK ITET team, providing a holistic view, controlling costs, growing capability and stability. The Portfolio Management Office will be the conduit for status reporting, performance analysis and information for senior management with a key objective of allowing senior leadership to make informed decisions based on the information and insight.

As well as supporting the delivery of reporting, you will help apply standardised governance practices, providing guidance and direction on best practice processes, ensuring that there are the relevant controls in place to keep these areas well managed. You will also monitor/evaluate data to assure delivery of goals and objectives to ensure delivery. We are looking for an individual who is comfortable working with a variety of stakeholders to understand their requirements but with the ability to challenge and maintain alignment to the core PMO service catalogues and PMO governance standards.

Portfolio, programme and project support (3)- Providing support and guidance on portfolio, programme and project management processes, procedures, tools and techniques.

• Provides administrative services to project boards, project assurance teams and quality review meetings.
• Uses recommended portfolio, programme and project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking.
• Sets up project files, compiles and distributes reports.
• Provides guidance on project management software, procedures, processes, tools and techniques.

Quality Assurance (3) Assuring, through ongoing and periodic assessments and reviews, that the organisation's quality objectives are being met.

• Contributes to the collection of evidence and the conduct of formal audits or reviews of activities.
• Examines records for evidence that appropriate testing and other quality control activities have taken place.
• Determines compliance with organisational directives, standards and procedures and identifies non-compliances, non-conformances and abnormal occurrences.

Feasibility Assessment (Change Analysis Defining, evaluating and describing business change options for financial, technical and business feasibility, and strategic alignment.

• Supports option identification and feasibility assessment.
• Selects and employs standard techniques to get the information required for feasibility assessment.
• Supports identification of tangible costs and benefits, and development of business cases.

Business Intelligence (4) - Developing, producing and delivering regular and one-off management information to provide insights and aid decision-making.

• Sources and prepares data for analysis and performs standard business intelligence analysis activities.
• Creates and delivers standard reports in accordance with stakeholder needs and conforming to agreed standards.
• Investigates the need for new or revised business intelligence analysis.
• Contributes to the recommendation of improvements. Engages with stakeholders under direction

Measurement (3) - Developing and operating a measurement capability to support agreed organisational information needs.

• Identifies and prioritises appropriate measures, scales, and targets.
• Supports projects, functions or teams in the development of measurement methods.
• Specifies base and derived measures which support agreed information needs. Specifies how to collect and store the data for each required measure. Provides guidance on collection of data.
• Designs reports and reporting formats.

Knowledge Management (3) - Managing vital knowledge to create value for the organisation.

• Maintains knowledge management systems and content to meet business needs.
• Supports others to enable them to complete knowledge management activities and form knowledge management habits. Supports changes to work practices to support capture and use of knowledge.
• Reports on the progress of knowledge management activities.
• Configures and develops knowledge management systems and standards.

Content Authoring (3) - Planning, designing and creating textual information, supported where necessary by graphical content.

• Produces information artefacts that are accurate, current, relevant and easily understood by the intended audience.
• Clarifies detailed content requirements with clients and representatives of the intended audience.
• Designs, creates, controls and evaluates moderately complex subject matter.
• Makes informed decisions about the best way to present information to an audience. Applies moderation and editing processes to content supplied by others.

Section 4 – Knowledge, Experience and Technical Know How

• Strong background in process and performance improvement, using data to enable informed decision making.
• Experience of matrix management of resources.
• Experience of utilising Project planning tools e.g., MS Project or Project Online
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders to understand their requirements and set clear expectations.

Essential

Experience with relevant industry certifications e.g., P3O, Prince 2, Agile Project Management

Desirable:

Prince2 foundation, MSP Foundation, Agile, ITIL

If you have not received a response within 48 hours of applying, please assume you have not been shortlisted this time.

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