PMO Analyst (3-months Contract)
London
Finance – Professional Services & Support /
Full-time /
Hybrid
At R3 our vision is a world where value moves freely, and business is done safely. Our mission is to enable an open, trusted, and enduring digital economy. We are a scale up with a startup’s grit. We encourage a workforce where no idea is too small, and no two days are the same.
About R3 Professional Services
R3's Professional Services team works to bring Corda specialist expertise to our customers to make their adoption successful. We engage directly with our customers to design, build, deploy and advise them on their Corda journey to ensure long-term capabilities are sustained. Through business consulting, technical solutions and implementation, we help customers achieve their goals most effectively for their business, owning projects ranging from small design POCs to full-end to end implementations for Digital Currencies and Digital Assets real-world problems.
Our customer-centric and innovative approach to providing services and solutions in the industry allows us to strategically assess our customer's needs and ensure they are set up for success from the beginning of their journey. In addition to working directly with our customers, we strive to collaborate internally with our Sales, Engineering and Product organisations to provide better tooling, services and products based on our customer's evolving needs.
Your Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the Programme Manager, you will be responsible for assisting with planning project management activities, analysing financial information to keep projects on track, and collaborating with different departments to ensure all leaders understand where the project is in the process. Ultimately, you will work with leaders across various departments to help streamline the project delivery to ensure we reach our goals and keep deliverables on track for timely completion:
- Day to day delivery of PMO tools and processes to support the Programme and Project Manager(s) in effectively monitoring progress and escalating issues and risks to the relevant level of Governance.
- Owning the monthly status reporting process and responding to ad hoc requests from Senior Management.
- Participating in key project meetings – producing action minutes, recording decisions and tracking actions.
- User administration and document management of project SharePoint site, ensuring that latest copies of key project documentation are available to all team members.
- Maintaining programme issues and risks registers.
- Maintaining dependency logs.
- Maintaining programme action registers.
- Maintaining programme project plans.
- Establishing, implementing and supporting key Programme, Project and Governance meetings.
- Ensuring appropriate audit trail exists for project key decisions that have been completed.
- Championing the application of Change Framework across the project.
- Provide analytical support to Programme Manager as required.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Proven work experience as a Project Management Analyst or a similar role.
- Excellent organizational and technical abilities.
- Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and MS Projects skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and technicalities.
- Strong interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.
- Comfortable and able to work under pressure.
- Understanding of the principles and complexities of delivering enterprise software to an external client.
Nice to have competencies:
- Atlassian Jira & Confluence and Salesforce experience is an advantage.
- Previous experience of working in payments or FinTech.
