We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive PMO Analyst to support project governance, financial operations, and portfolio management activities across multiple initiatives. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining project data integrity, supporting financial reconciliation, preparing management reports, and ensuring compliance with PMO standards and governance processes. This role requires strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and the ability to collaborate effectively with global stakeholders across multiple time zones.
Project Management Office (PMO) Support
- Support day-to-day PMO operations by maintaining project governance standards, documentation, and reporting.
- Monitor project schedules, milestones, risks, issues, and dependencies to ensure timely delivery.
- Maintain project records, status reports, dashboards, and portfolio documentation.
- Assist Project Managers in tracking project progress and ensuring adherence to organizational PMO processes.
- Coordinate governance meetings, prepare meeting materials, document action items, and follow up on deliverables.
- Support project financial tracking, budgeting, forecasting, and reconciliation activities.
- Validate project costs, resource allocations, and financial data to ensure accuracy.
- Assist in monthly financial reporting, variance analysis, and portfolio reporting.
- Coordinate with finance and project teams to resolve financial discrepancies and maintain data consistency.
- Ensure compliance with financial governance policies and reporting requirements.
- Maintain accurate project and portfolio information within project management systems.
- Generate and analyze project performance metrics, dashboards, and executive reports.
- Support data quality initiatives by validating project information and ensuring reporting accuracy.
- Assist in preparing portfolio presentations and management reports for leadership reviews.
- Collaborate with Project Managers, PMO leadership, Finance, Business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
- Support communication across geographically distributed teams and multiple time zones.
- Assist in coordinating project governance activities, reviews, and status reporting.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives that enhance PMO efficiency and reporting quality.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- 2–5 years of experience in a Project Management Office (PMO), project coordination, project administration, or financial operations role.
- Experience supporting project governance, reporting, financial tracking, and portfolio management activities.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while working independently and collaboratively.
- Hands-on experience with project management tools such as Planview and/or JIRA.
- Familiarity with financial systems; experience with Eclipse is considered an advantage.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis, reporting, and financial tracking.
- Experience developing dashboards and reports using Microsoft Power BI.
- Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel).
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational and time management capabilities.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Collaborative mindset with experience working across global teams and multiple time zones.
- Understanding of PMO governance frameworks, project lifecycle management, and financial reconciliation processes.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage sensitive project information.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- 2–5 years of experience in a Project Management Office, project coordination, project administration, or financial operations role.
- Experience supporting project governance, reporting, financial tracking, and portfolio management activities.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently and collaboratively.
- Hands-on experience with Planview and/or JIRA.
- Familiarity with financial systems; Eclipse experience is an advantage.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel for data analysis, reporting, and financial tracking.
- Experience developing dashboards and reports using Microsoft Power BI.
- Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel.
- Understanding of PMO governance frameworks, project lifecycle management, and financial reconciliation processes.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage sensitive project information.
What We Do
Kumaran Systems is an IT Services Company with imprints in three countries. The past two decades has seen us provide our global clientele with high-end IT services that include migration support, system integration and infrastructure management solutions, providing one-stop-solution to all your IT demands. Our expertise and in-depth knowledge of businesses help us cater to a variety of industries. Our team strives to know your industry better, by observing current trends and the way it works, to tailor-make our solutions to your needs.With over 20 years of customer orientation, over 2000 engagements across Telecom, Education and Banking & Financial services spread across the globe, Kumaran stands as a key advisor to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in their business driven technology enablement drive. Kumaran System's Customer Orientation is driven by a global delivery business model giving its customers to choose between an Onshore-Offshore mix. The delivery models enable multilevel touch points between the client, partner networks and Kumaran thereby enabling business driven customer sensitivity and agility. ENGAGE, EMERGE AND EXCEL Involving ourselves in a purposeful action, using our abilities to its maximum, helps us feel positive about ourselves. Such positivity gives raise to positive thinking and positive ideas. Ideas evolve into vision and set our aim! Our aspirations engage us with the incentive of sweet success! Every endeavor has its own pitfalls. Perseverance helps us emerge a successful entrepreneur after any deterrent. In our attempt to achieve our aim, we keep upgrading our knowledge and skill, to surface successful! A genius mind does not work to excel, but excels in work! We challenge ourselves with every next step! We change every deterrent to a stepping stone to success. We essentially, engage, emerge and excel
