PMO Analyst

Southern Water•Worthington, MN

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

Southern Water are going through an immense digital transformation programme and require skilled and talented people to join our supportive and collaborative teams to deliver these transformation initiatives. About the role Southern Water is seeking a PMO Analyst to provide portfolio reporting and associated analysis on agreed KPI’s across the Portfolio. Ensure consistent and standardised (where possible) approach to project delivery and drive the associated governance and quality assurance across IT Delivery.

Requirements

Knowledge PMO and PM tools
Understanding of programme and portfolio management as well as project management
Project management experience
Strong demonstrable experience of scoping and delivering PMO services
Project Change Control and quality assurance.
Identify trends to slippage.
Experience of the full delivery lifecycle and project management tools and techniques.
Project Management qualifications, Prince 2, APM, MoP, or a related field.
Demonstrable experience in a PMO or project support role.
Strong understanding of project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile).
Experience of managing resource demand and assignment, identifying opportunities and risks
Experience of financial management including tracking and reporting, purchase orders, invoicing, and finance system updates
Experience of project, programme, and portfolio reviews, reporting and analytics
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Attention to detail and organisational skills.
Ability to execute in a high demand environment, whilst balancing multiple priorities.
Excellent communicator, who can engage with all levels of stakeholders across the department.

Responsibilities

Monitoring, reporting and analysis of project progress against time, cost and quality expectations, providing an early warning of any variances or exceptions and ensuring compliance with Southern Water project and programme delivery framework, governance and reporting standards.
Financial management: tracking, reporting, analytics, purchase order and invoice process, financial systems updates.
Ongoing management and monitoring of the Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAID), for all programmes and projects via regular engagement and challenge with the programme/project teams.
Advise and escalate on key areas requiring Senior PMO Analyst and management attention.
Review and quality assure project change requests.
Resource demand management: Support PM with the tracking and reporting demand and assignment for the project, identifying options where shortfalls or conflicts arise
Responsible for contributing ideas to the ongoing development, and improvement of the Project framework and maintenance of the delivery lifecycle, processes, standards, and templates.
Perform administration of tools used in PMO, e.g. Enterprise 1 (Planview PPM tool).
Perform regular and documented quality assessments within the Portfolio, providing recommendations and support as appropriate.
Facilitate post project reviews, capturing lessons learnt and actioning continuous improvements across the delivery communities.
Support project, programme, and portfolio level reporting, including analytics to identify issues, trends, gaps, and improvements required.
Pro-actively forming effective relationships with collaborators across the Programmes/project within Digital.