The Role
Supports program and project planning, tracking, reporting, financial analysis, risk management, business process improvement, and stakeholder coordination. Maintains PMO repositories, dashboards, documentation, and reporting tools while monitoring budgets, forecasts, funding, schedules, milestones, and deliverables. Develops business cases, cost analyses, and recommendations; facilitates meetings and drives action items to completion. Provides operational support and analytical guidance across technical, financial, and program teams.
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At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.
Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented PMO Analyst to join our team! The ideal candidate will:
- 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.
Required Qualifications
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
Security Clearance Requirement:
An active Top Secret SCI w/Polygraph security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $103,500.00 - $181,100.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business Management or a related field
- At least 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 Top Secret SCI security clearance with polygraph; must be clearable to the CI polygraph level
- Experience supporting DoD contracts, military organizations, or government programs
- Background in economic analysis, 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
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Parsons Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Parsons Corporation.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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The Company
What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
