PMO Analyst

Who we're looking for

The Corporate & Regulatory Change Team drives and delivers corporate transformational strategies as well as Group regulatory change and risk commitments. A PMO Analyst, capable of supporting complex change programmes involving multiple teams with differing specialisms, is needed to facilitate and enable successful delivery. 

You will be an enthusiastic PMO Analyst who enjoys the challenges that come with working on corporate functions and regulatory enterprise- wide projects and programmes. 

The role is responsible for supporting the transformation leaders, programme and project managers and other internal business customers at Schroders by ensuring robust programme governance, oversight, and enabling delivery of transformation and change initiatives, driving adherence to internal standards and best practice, assisting management to make informed decisions through high-quality reporting, risk management and process optimisation.

What you'll do

Provide pro-active and supportive PMO capability enabling improved performance through:

• Coordinating change initiatives, working closely with programme and project managers to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Supporting resource management, costs and benefits tracking, and budgeting across the allocated programmes and/or projects.
• Assisting with preparation for steering committees, boards and other governance, and audit reviews.
• Supporting the annual planning process and the setup / close down of programmes and projects.
• Producing high-quality management information (MI), status reports, dashboards, and presentations for senior stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, dependencies, and key decisions.
• Maintaining and managing programme and project governance frameworks, including regular review of project status, risk logs, milestones, forecasts and actual costs.

• Embedding best practice project and change methodologies (e.g., Agile, Prince2, or other relevant frameworks).

  
  

The experience, knowledge and skills you will need

• Must have experience as a PMO analyst or project manager.
• Proven communication and presentation skills.
• Experience of the financial aspects of managing a project / programme, including cross-charging between projects, teams and business areas, forecasting and reconciliation, variance reporting and budget management.
• Mature understanding and demonstrated application of established project / programme management lifecycles, methodologies, governance and frameworks including:
  • Creating, implementing and controlling agreed assurance and governance frameworks
  • Developing and tracking Programme Roadmaps, Integrated Programme Plans and Project / Workstream Plans
  • Open and honest status reporting across the project / programme
  • RAID (Risk, Assumption, Issue and Dependency) Management
  • Change Management and Control
• Stakeholder engagement and management experience with the ability to present factual information to individuals or groups in a structured, clear, confident and concise way. 
• Ability to quickly develop effective working relationships and be a contributing team member, as well as the capability of working under your own initiative. 

The experience, knowledge and skills that will help

• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools and experience of using portfolio management (PPM) software such as KeyedIn is desirable.
• Basic professional qualifications relating to the asset management industry (such as IMC). 

What you'll be like

• Hands-on with a positive “can-do” attitude.
• Responsible for planning own workload and working with autonomy, typically against a backdrop of changing priorities and / or external events.
• A good team player, building strong relationships within team and other change teams.
• An ability to prioritise multiple concurrent tasks and deliver to agreed timescales.

We recognise potential, whoever you are

Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought, facilitated by an inclusive culture, will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic