Senior PMO Analyst
Virgin Money
LIVERPOOL, ENG, United Kingdom
Business Unit: Products & Channels Salary range: £37,600 - £47,000 circa per annum DOE + red-hot benefits Location: UK Hybrid - With quarterly travel to a local hub. Contract type : Permanent - Full Time
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Our Team
You ll be responsible for a wide range of activities across Change & Delivery, collaborate with a diverse group of colleagues, so as you can imagine, no two days are the same. You ll have a unique opportunity to get involved in the reporting the performance of all Change & Delivery Programme and Project performance to the Change & Delivery Leadership Team, Virgin Money Delivery Board and the Virgin Money Board. Underpinning all the reporting you will work closely with the Delivery PMO Teams to ensure the individual Programme and Projects have quality performance metrics including project status, milestones, capabilities, risks, issues and dependencies.
What you'll be doing
Analysing programme and project data, across the entire Change & Delivery portfolio, and producing high quality reports, trend analysis and presentation packs based on accurate project data for stakeholder groups, senior management, Board and suitable for external regulators.
Facilitate and attend key senior management Governance Forums. Build packs and proactively manage actions/decisions through to closure.
Delivery PMO Analysts, Project Managers and Programme Managers
Work in partnership with the programme & delivery teams, offering guidance to ensure the programmes are adhering to Change Methodology Policy Standards (CMPS) within the Governance Framework.
Lead and drive governance and reporting process improvements to streamline and simplify for users, working closely with the 3 lines of defence.
Identification of knowledge gaps and training opportunities and lead the resolution alongside other PMO teams.
Lead trend analysis activity across the full project life cycle working with multiple stakeholders e.g. 1st and 2nd line of defence.
We d love you to have:
PMO and/or Project delivery experience, using recognised methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, Prince 2 etc)
EPM experience, working with project data including RAID, capabilities, and status reporting
Day to day task management experience
Excellent understanding of Change Management Policy Standards (CMPS) and Change Management Framework (CMF)
Strong analytical, planning and problem-solving skills with an eye for detail.
Experience of reporting to tight deadlines, prioritising workload and delivering to an established standard
A positive approach and natural ability to collaborate and work with stakeholders at all levels across the business
Confidence to challenge and influence to get the best outcome
The ability to communicate clearly (in both visual material and verbally) in a straight up, succinct way keeping the complex simple
Insatiable curiosity so you can truly under requirements and the ask
The ability to quickly understand complex systems and processes
Excellent MS Office knowledge (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
It s a bonus if you have but not essential
Experience of working in a Central Programme Management Office or PMO team within a large scale Programme (with +10 Tribes/Projects)
Resilience to stimulate debate and challenge proposals to ensure best outcomes achieved
The ability to think strategically, and bring together lower-level details to help understand wider impacts for the bank, customers and colleagues across all projects
Red Hot Rewards
Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
Up to five extra paid well-being days per year .
20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
Market-leading pension.
Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin , so happy to talk flexible working with you.
Say hello to Virgin Money We re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, Making You Happier About Money. This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work. Be yourself at Virgin Money Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.
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It s important to note that there may be occasions where it s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants.
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