PMO Analyst

Role: PMO Analyst

Location: Primarily remote but with potential occasional travel into London at client site.

Duration: 9 Months

Day rate: £360 Inside IR35

Clearance: NPPV2 clearance required due to project restrictions.

The PMO Analyst plays a key role in supporting successful project delivery through high-quality reporting, effective RAID management, and strong governance practices. Working within a structured PMO environment, the role ensures the accuracy and integrity of project data, enabling clear insight and informed decision-making across the portfolio. Strong Excel capability is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce accurate and timely weekly and monthly reports, dashboards, and status updates for senior stakeholders and customers, ensuring clarity and consistency of information.
• Own and present project reports to customers, chair reporting forums where required, and confidently walk stakeholders through status, risks, and key insights.
• Maintain and actively manage Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies (RAID), ensuring updates are current, actions are tracked, and items escalated where necessary.
• Use advanced Excel techniques (e.g., pivot tables, lookups, formulas, and data validation) to analyze project data, identify trends, and provide meaningful insights.
• Support governance forums by preparing meeting packs, tracking actions, and ensuring adherence to PMO standards and controls.
• Work closely with project managers, delivery teams, and customers to gather, validate, and challenge data to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Assist with maintaining project plans, tracking milestones, and supporting resource and capacity reporting.
• Support the monitoring of project budgets, forecasts, and actuals, highlighting variances and potential risks.
• Maintain project documentation, templates, and version control, ensuring audit readiness at all times.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity across PMO tools (e.g., Execview), maintaining a single source of truth.
• Identify and implement improvements to reporting, processes, and tools to enhance PMO efficiency and effectiveness.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience (3+ years) in a PMO or project support environment.
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, VBA, conditional formatting, charts).
• Experience managing RAID logs and supporting governance frameworks.
• Experience presenting reports to stakeholders and confidence chairing customer-facing reporting sessions.
• Ability to produce clear, concise, and insightful reports for senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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