PMO Analyst

Job Type: 24 months Fixed Term Contract.

Location: Edinburgh based with 2 days per week spent working at home (if you wish to, you can also come to the office if that’s your preference.)

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balance this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date: 26.8.24

Salary and benefits: £30-£40,000 plus 8-16% bonus potential, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, 10% non contributory pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a PMO Analyst to join our Group Operations, Migrations Team

The role

• To understand and communicate the Phoenix Change portfolio, and help identify conflicts and synergies across the portfolio.
• Coordinates Steering Group Reports and other key management information reports and prepare these reports on an on-going basis on behalf of the project/programme manager.
• Support the identification and monitoring of risks ensuring standards are adopted for their effective management, as well as challenging accuracy and completeness.
• Support the operation of a resource management strategy ensuring resource plans are maintained and resource gaps escalated to the Project Manager.
• Proactively manage project costs, through accurate forecasting and review of monthly spend, including payment of invoices, where appropriate.
• Set up and maintain appropriate Documentation/Configuration Management systems following the necessary framework standards.
• Support the integration of project and programme information, facilitating identification, awareness and monitoring of key dependencies (both internal and external), assumptions and constraints impacting the project, referring any risks or issues to the Project Manager.
• Facilitate and support project planning, including development of robust project plans, identification of key milestones, dependencies, critical path, risks and assumptions, ensuring planning standards are followed.
• Managing conflicting priorities at all times, and communicating clearly across the project and sub-portfolio where priorities and interests may be in conflict.
• Ensuring Governance and controls are put in place and maintained through all stages of delivery.
• Experience of supporting projects or programmes or portfolios from inception to closedown.

What are we looking for?

• You will report to a PMO Manager ensuring controls and governance within your remit are being effectively measured and managed, ensuring the necessary resources and priorities are agreed and appropriately challenged where necessary.
• You will facilitate and support planning activities, identification of key milestones, dependencies, critical path, risks and assumptions, ensuring planning standards are followed.
• Effective forward planning of own (and teams activities where appropriate) to support delivery, creating visibility of a clear plan, identifying risks and issues for mitigation and re-prioritisation of work with agreement and negotiation with key stakeholders.
• Proactive development and/or co-ordination of key management information packs and reports on an on-going basis to support the monthly governance cycle. Ensuring the information is appropriately pitched for the audience.
• Active identification, monitoring and progressing of project / programme / hub / portfolio risks and issues, ensuring the Change Management Framework Standards are adopted for their effective management, as well as challenging accuracy and completeness. Identifying appropriate risks and issues for escalation.
• Drive effective resource management ensuring resource plans are maintained and resource gaps escalated in a timely manner to drive effective mitigations actions.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

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