The opportunity
Reporting to the Programme Director, the Project Management Office (PMO) Analyst supports the Programme Director in coordinating and managing the end-to-end transformation activity across the firm. You will play a lead role in supporting Programme Managers, Project Managers and Business Analysts in delivery, while also being responsible for ensuring all key decisions, minutes and actions are accurately recorded and stored for audit purposes and traceability. This is a Fixed Term Contract, hybrid role, based in our Swindon office, with the requirement to be in the office 3 days a week. The Benefits:
1. Salary - up to £75,500
2. Bonus – on target – 7.5%
3. Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
4. Critical illness cover
5. Income protection - 1x salary
6. Death in service - 4x salary
7. 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days.
8. A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.
Key Accountabilities:
Master Planning and RAID Maintenance
9. Maintain plans and ensure they reflect live status
10. Understand dates, dependencies and interconnectivity between activities
11. Maintain all master planning data such as key milestones, dates
12. Maintain all RAID information
Change Control and Governance
13. Ensure requests for changes to scope, dates, costs and benefits are logged and reported
14. Ensure decisions are recorded, logged and communicated
15. Ensure change request process and governance is understood
Benefits Tracking and KPI’s
16. Own the master list of all project benefits and KPI’s and ensure linkage with strategic measures
Reporting & Communications
17. Minutes and note taking in key forums
Cost, Capacity & Resource Management
18. Support the Programme Director in managing transformation costs and provide accurate forecasting
19. Support the Programme Director in monitoring the organisational capacity and transformation resource plans
What will you need to succeed?
20. Experience working in Change & Transformation, either in PMO or delivery roles, or in large scale transformation projects.
21. Management Consulting or Professional Services background is beneficial
22. Understand the full project lifecycle including the key actors and roles within a project
23. Have a track record in managing and maintaining delivery plans and key delivery information such as RAID data
24. Knowledge of project management lifecycle, techniques and tools
25. Understanding of Programme Management Methodologies
26. Understanding of Project Governance and Assurance
27. Financial Services Experience
28. Ambitious ‘go getter’ who uses initiative and acts without having to be asked
29. Ability to collate and produce high quality documentation
30. Skilled at managing stakeholder groups, comfortable with communicating at all levels to ensure reporting deadlines are achieved
31. Continuous improvement, look for ways to enhance ways of working across the TMO. This includes suggesting ideas to improve efficiencies, evaluating current processes, and finding opportunities to implement
Why us?
We're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.
We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.