Job Description:

Our client, a leading financial services firm is looking for a Senior PMO Analyst to join their team in Glasgow. The position is within a central PMO team who support the Client Delivery department change activities. You will be providing a stable framework to support all project teams and stakeholders to assure successful project delivery and supporting the needs of senior management for governance and decision making.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Extensive PMO experience within financial services
• Strong understanding of the project lifecycle
• Detailed knowledge of project, programme, and portfolio management tasks
• Proficient in the use of standard project planning and measurement tools
• Capability to be flexible and step beyond this role as and when required.
• Evidence of driving delivery of strategic initiatives
• Excellent communication skills, exceptional written communication
• Able to quickly produce high quality documentation, distilling into key issues and attention points.
• Previous Project Management experience

Core Responsibilities:

• Facilitate processes to coordinate and control the portfolio of work across the Client Delivery department.
• Provide high quality materials and input into senior level portfolio governance both internally and for clients.
• Provide support to Programme and Project Managers, to sponsors and senior management in the management of the project portfolio.
• Maintain and manage the project roadmap and pipeline and provide visibility to relevant stakeholders.
• Monitor budget and spend for projects, develop processes to highlight variance to stakeholders.
• Monitor capacity planning, utilise, and enhance tools and provide support where needed and communicate resource allocation challenges.
• Verify project tracking, control, and reporting, including management of risks, issues, dependencies, actions, budget tracking, change control and regular reporting.
• Continue to drive the roll out of the PMO processes to the wider Client Delivery area, incorporating other teams' processes, standardising processes.
• Actively contribute to the strategy for PMO
• Identify, lead, and sponsor Continuous Improvement initiatives for the PMO
• Consider the implications of your actions on colleagues, partners, and clients before making decisions, and escalate issues to your manager when unsure.
• Manage, monitor, and enhance where needed the processes to coordinate and control the portfolio of work across the department.
• Ensure timely, relevant, and accurate collation of data and reporting for departmental and transversal activities such as capacity planning, resource management, forecasting, project planning, RAID management.
• Deliver high quality reporting to project stakeholders, including sponsors, senior management, and our clients.

Benefits:

• A highly competitive salary
• Wider Benefits package

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 15182

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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