PMO Analyst – 6-month contract – Hybrid (3x days p/w office) - £300 – 350 p/d (inside IR35)/£85,000 FTC
My client is a leading global investment management business seeking a PMO Analyst to join their Change team. This role will play a key part in supporting the portfolio through effective financial management, governance, and oversight – helping to ensure change initiatives are aligned to strategic goals and delivered with operational excellence.
The PMO Analyst is expected to:
• Build and maintain a structured Excel-based solution to track the full portfolio of change initiatives.
• Monitor and manage financials across the portfolio, including monthly budget tracking, forecasting, and reconciliation with actuals.
• Support Project Managers with budgeting, resourcing, and reporting, ensuring consistency and accuracy across all governance artefacts.
• Collaborate closely with the Finance team to align change financials with corporate systems and processes.
• Produce high-quality MI for senior stakeholders, including insightful dashboards and reporting packs for governance forums.
• Help embed core governance processes such as status reporting and RAID tracking, in line with best practice.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of PMO operations, supporting the development of a delivery-minded and strategically aligned PMO function.
The successful PMO Analyst will possess:
• Demonstrable experience managing a change portfolio using Excel (including pivot tables, XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, and data validation).
• Strong background in financial tracking, budget reconciliation, and resource allocation.
• Proven ability to support both project-level and portfolio-level governance.
• Strong experience of producing MI/reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities with minimal reliance on enterprise PMO tools.
