Pmo analyst job description

Our client, a leading global financial services company, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 140 countries. They provide consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
Description:
PMO Analyst
• Job Description
Seeking a seasoned PMO Analyst with a proven track record of PMO or Project Management within the Technology, Banking or Consultancy industry. In this fast paced environment you must be able to prioritize tasks, work within deadlines, taking a pragmatic and considered approach, paying close attention to details, you will need to employ strong oral and written communication skills. Documentation preparation & review, strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies (traditional, Agile & hybrid) required.

Job Background/Context:
This group is responsible for providing authoritative sources of reference data to our clients across the Institutional Client Services (ICG) organization, through implementing state of the art technologies which promote the collection, storage, analysis, and distribution of product, pricing, account and corporate action data. The group works in partnership with data clients across all ICG business lines, deploying solutions to increase their competitiveness through restructuring business processes, simplifying information access, and providing business intelligence around critical data.

Key Responsibilities:
The PMO analyst will be accountable for the following responsibilities:
• Project coordination for several PMO competence areas across the program/project portfolio
• Assist technology leads and project managers in managing a large portfolio of programs and projects
• Enforce a culture of SDLC best practices across the technology group
• Serve as liaison between multiple domain areas within the group to synthesize information for communications / presentations
• Maintain existing departmental and Project Office policies and procedures
• Continue to update and improve project methodologies, provide mentoring and training to other PM's and act as an SME
• Support team members in the planning, directing and coordination of day-to-day activities of running a program or portfolio of programs.
• Liaise with a range of teams from Technology Central Business Office, Technology Leads, Program Managers and Management Office team, providing insightful financial and business analysis and developing senior management reports, to define and track key operational/program metrics and to help drive business decisions to achieve goals
• Proactively follows escalation and change control processes, when necessary
• Utilize proficient Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills to provide effective reporting and documentation including dashboards and scorecards
• Excellent oral and written communication skills necessary to effectively communicate issues, risks and progress on complex processes to multiple stakeholders
• Self-initiate, work productively when unsupervised and multitask across multiple concurrent projects

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience
• PMP or similar project management certification helpful
• Experience with/Solid knowledge of SDLC processes - Agile/Waterfall methodology
• Ability to proficiently use MS Office products, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

Skills:
• Strong listening, presentation, communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail in supporting management reporting with clear and concise data analysis and presentation
• Highly motivated and self-directed; exhibits thought leadership and strong critical thinking skills
• Ability to multitask and work across various groups globally

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Whippany, NJ

As a Barclays PMO Analyst, you will manage Execution Risk effectively, deliver on our Group strategy and satisfy all our stakeholders. We must deliver our initiatives consistently and transparently. You will need to ensure initiative delivery is managed in line with the relevant Policies and Standards, using standard processes and tooling to improve the level and likelihood of successful outcomes.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

Working Flexibly

We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs. Whether you have family commitments or you're a career, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We're flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

* Processing governance required by PMO to ensure compliance to all relevant Policies and Standards which are Financial, Tracking Governance, Documentation and Reporting
* Reporting for programme and portfolio Level including programme plan maintenance
* Forecasting accurate programme/project and tracking actuals against budget and compiling necessary financial reports for Financial Management
* Working with the programme/project team to ensure an accurate forecast of required resources is in place and support with onboarding
* Ensuring any changes to the project or programme are made in line with governance
* Supporting the programme/project identify, assess and monitor risks and issues, plan and implement appropriate responses for mitigation or resolution, including escalations
* Supporting the programme / project identify, define, evaluate, plan, track and realize the outcomes and benefits of change initiatives

What we're looking for:

* PMO or project management experience
* Ability to deliver in a business that is undergoing a high degree of change
* Stakeholder management
* Excellent PC Skills including Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Project

Skills that will help you in the role:

* PMO qualification desirable
* Knowledge of project management methodologies
* Experience of working in large change programmes / multi workstream environments
* Financial / Budget management

Where will you be working?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you'll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

HEPCO is seeking a Lead PMO Analyst, for a direct-hire role with a New York City Government Agency.

• Manage the overall FS IT Project Portfolio Governance process as well as the project management framework and project execution.
• Design, maintain and modify structured processes and work productions in areas such as: a) project planning, tracking, reporting; and b) project team organization, staffing and team set-up.
• Provide executive management reports and project guidelines.
• Assist FISA Project Manager(s) with cost projection, tracking and reporting.
• Provide FS PMO leadership, guidance, and coaching.
• Work with project sponsors, business stakeholders, and IT managers to ensure that business cases and project charters are appropriately documented and meet project standards and practices.
• Ensure PMO daily activities and work product deliverables are completed.
• Track and monitor project deliverables to an on-time completion.
• Supervise FISA project management staff and ensure that a standardized set of procedures is applied to FS IT project work.

Qualification Requirements:

• A baccalaureate degree and four years of satisfactory full-time experience.
• An associate degree and six years of satisfactory full-time experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Proficient in MS Project including customizing MS Project fields for tracking and reporting status and portfolio management.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle Methodology (SDLC).
• Knowledge and understanding of the Agile approach to project management.
• Proven analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain project management metrics.
• Minimum 5 years hands-on experience working as a Project Management Office Analyst. Responsibilities would include managing large projects occurring in parallel during the same timeframe for not less than 18 months in duration.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Project Management Office Analyst for a Software Development Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System (preferably an Accounting System Implementation).
• Successfully completed a minimum of 3 projects involving a full system development lifecycle as a Project Management Office Analyst.
• Project Management Professional certification a plus.

Benefits:

• Health Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Dependent Care Assistance Program
• 401k
• PTO
• Paid holidays

The company does not provide sponsorship.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class.