PMO Analyst

Parsons Corporation•Columbia, MD

6d•$103,500 - $181,100

About The Position

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented PMO Analyst to join our team! This role involves supporting program and project planning, tracking, reporting, and financial monitoring. The ideal candidate will be adept at data analysis, process improvement, and communication, translating complex information into actionable insights and visual tools. This position is part of our Federal Solutions team, delivering resources to US government customers for global missions in defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental sectors.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business Management or related field
Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in program management, business analysis, financial analysis, project management, operations, or a related field.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
Experience with budget tracking, financial analysis, forecasting, or program performance management.
Experience developing reports, dashboards, trackers, and executive-level program updates.
Experience with ETC/EAC, ROM estimates, cost analysis, financial forecasting, and analyses of alternatives.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
Experience with SharePoint and program documentation management.
Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently while collaborating across teams.
Active TS SCI to start, must be clearable to the CI poly level.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting DoD contracts, military organizations, or government programs.
Background in economic analysis, including cost analysis, cost-benefit analysis, economic feasibility studies, or evaluation of alternatives.
Experience with DoD acquisition, budgeting, contracting, or program management processes.
Experience supporting subcontractor management, vendor funding, or invoice administration.
Experience automating recurring reports and developing program dashboards.
Experience establishing standardized processes, templates, repositories, and reporting methodologies.

Responsibilities

Support program and project planning, including onboarding, schedules, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resources, and performance measures.
Track and report program and project status using appropriate project management tools and methodologies, ensuring early identification of delays, risks, and issues.
Coordinate cross-functional milestone, dependency, and interdependency tracking across projects and functional areas.
Maintain program tracking tools, SharePoint sites, document repositories, systems of record, and centralized PMO libraries, ensuring organization, accessibility, version control, and proper archiving.
Conduct data-quality checks and implement corrective actions to maintain the accuracy and integrity of program information.
Support project, program, and portfolio-level business process analysis by documenting current- and future-state processes, identifying gaps and inefficiencies, and recommending improvements.
Translate complex business processes and program data into visual workflows, dashboards, and other tools that support analysis and decision-making.
Monitor program budgets, burn rates, funding, financial performance, forecasts, and variances.
Review and validate program financials, including ETC files, invoices, funding data, subcontractor charges, and vendor expenditures.
Identify and communicate funding risks, budget overruns and underruns, and other financial issues before they affect program execution.
Conduct requirements, business, economic, and feasibility analyses to support investment and program decisions.
Develop and support business cases, analyses of alternatives, rough-order-of-magnitude estimates, cost comparisons, risk analyses, and economic analyses.
Collect and analyze program data, documentation, and stakeholder input to develop solutions, recommendations, and actionable insights.
Prepare weekly and monthly program status reports, dashboards, and briefings covering financial performance, schedule, staffing, milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, and overall program health.
Standardize and automate templates, reporting processes, dashboards, document repositories, and lessons-learned logs to improve consistency and efficiency.
Facilitate meetings and stakeholder engagements; document decisions, action items, risks, and follow-up activities.
Communicate program status, plans, risks, issues, and recommendations clearly to technical teams, management, customers, and other stakeholders.
Provide analytical support, technical guidance, and recommendations to program and project staff.
Proactively identify issues, develop viable solutions, and drive assigned actions through completion.
Provide functional support to the Operations Manager by optimizing daily workflows, monitoring performance metrics, supporting resource allocation, and promoting alignment across functional teams.
Manage competing priorities and collaborate effectively across technical, functional, financial, and program teams.