Role: Program Governance Analyst
Experience: 10 years
Location: London
Work mode: 4 Days per week for the first few months and then 3 days per week
Key Responsibilities
- Program Governance & Control
- Maintain program governance frameworks, templates, and operating procedures.
- Manage governance artefacts including decision logs, change control records, RACI, action logs, and stage-gate materials.
- Ensure alignment with the bank's internal risk, audit, and compliance requirements.
- Support program governance reviews and follow-up action management.
- Program Reporting, Insights & Analytics
- Consolidate inputs from all workstreams to produce accurate weekly and monthly governance reports and executive-level packs.
- Maintain dashboards tracking milestones, progress, risks, dependencies, and schedule variance.
- Analyse the integrated plan in Microsoft Project to highlight delays, risks, and emerging trends.
- Conduct various daily and weekly update meetings to seek inputs required for governance reporting.
- Synthesize complex information into clear, concise insights for leadership.
- Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
- Use KeyedIn to maintain the program RAID log as the single source of truth.
- Work closely with workstream leads to ensure risks, issues, and dependencies are raised, assessed, prioritised, and actively managed.
- Monitor cross-workstream dependencies and escalates any that threaten the critical path.
- Program Planning & Change Control
- Support maintenance of the integrated program plan using Microsoft Project, incorporating updates from all delivery partners.
- Track milestones, critical path items, and schedule variance.
- Manage the change control process, including impact assessment and governance approvals.
- Ensure adherence to architectural checkpoints, design authority requirements, and SDLC controls.
- Collaboration, Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
- Use Jira to support collaboration, workflow transparency, and progress tracking across workstreams.
- Prepare high-quality materials for Steering Committees, governance forums, and management meetings.
- Coordinate governance meetings, circulate minutes, track actions, and ensure timely closure.
- Build strong working relationships with senior leaders, business SMEs, technology teams, and external partners.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Skills
- 5-10 years' experience in program governance, planning, or PMO within large transformation programs.
- Experience with large SAP S/4HANA or ERP programs.
- Proficiency in:
- Microsoft Project (planning)
- KeyedIn (RAID management)
- Jira (collaboration, agile workflows)
- Strong analytical, data handling, Excel, and PowerPoint skills; Power BI is an advantage.
- Banking or financial services experience preferred.
Core Competencies
- Highly structured, organised, and detail-oriented.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to convert complex inputs into clear insights.
- Proactive, solution-focused, and comfortable working in a multi-vendor environment.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Finance, or related field.
- PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, or other project/program management certifications preferred.
- SAP or ERP-related certifications beneficial.
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