Senior PMO Analyst

Overview

Reporting to a Technology Integration Management Office (TIMO) PMO Lead, the Senior PMO Analyst role provides information and quality analysis services to key delivery projects and portfolios within Tech M&A and Commercial.

The PMO will support the Programme / Project Managers to ensure that all purchasing requests are processed correctly and in time.

Analysis of Project and Portfolio MI

• Amalgamation, filtering and consolidating of project, programme and portfolio information for analysis and reporting
• Collation and analysis of project and portfolio MI, working with Project and Portfolio PMOs, and PMO Support teams, for status and reporting
• Quality assurance (QA) of data used for management reporting purposes, received from Programme, Project or Portfolio Managers
• Gather data/information on potential ideas and solutions, developing an understanding of cost/benefit principles
• Collates accurate and relevant data to support budgeting and forecasting
• Provision of analysis commentary for project, programme and/or portfolio reporting, working with PMO Lead or Portfolio PMO
• Provision of guidance and advice to the project manager in the adoption of and compliance with the LSEG project management standards

Reporting of Project and Portfolio MI

• Assisting the Programme, Project Managers and Portfolio PMO with the analysis of information for reporting and status updates
• Production of project MI and reports, covering at least delivery, schedule, budget, resource, issue, and risk management updates
• Review project plans, ensuring adherence to LSEG standards and delivery of breakthroughs and project timelines
• Collate data to support risk identification and evaluation, maintaining a clear and accurate risk log
• Demonstrate understanding of risk mitigation techniques and support risk mitigating activities.
• Production of project, programme and portfolio information and quality reports for compliance against Group Programme Management standards

Purchase Order Processing

• To maintain the Purchase Order list and issue periodic updates to Project Managers
• To ensure that all POs are correctly calculated, approved and processed. Ensure that no POs are raised against the wrong project
• Investigate and resolve purchase order queries as the need arises
• To reconcile invoices and POs and balance of POs
• To ensure all invoices are sent to Accounts Payables team with a PO number
• To liaise with suppliers and requestors concerning invoice queries
• Control and investigate invoice mistakes, for instance if a PO does not have enough funds to cover for the invoice

Communication

• Contribute to project collaborator identification and communication planning
• Deliver clear and accurate analysis to facilitate collaborator discussions
• Build trust with team members by consistently understanding and fulfilling partner requests in an accurate, timely and professional manner
• Work with Integration Finance lead for all Purchasing related reports
• Provide communications to all partners across the portfolio including, but not limited to, Finance Business Partners, Project Managers and PMO
• Reports to the LSEG Integration Portfolio PMO
• Contacts and liaises with Finance Business Partners for authorisation of Finance codes/budget and Project Managers for orders
• Liaises with employees at all levels within the PMO team and Accounts Payable
• Communicates professionally and efficiently with Programme & Project teams to ascertain relevant and timely updates for reports/presentation

• Continuously adopt a pragmatic, flexible and responsive approach
• Manage competing demands from various projects/managers simultaneously
• Applies judgement to assess the relative importance of assigned tasks and prioritises effectively
• Working with teams in multiple locations simultaneously
• Maintain constructive and supportive working relationships with collaborators across the group
• To ensure that the Purchase Order Requests are accurately processed, and deadlines are met
• To ensure receipting and payment of invoices are processed on time
• To ensure good internal control with respect to the Finances and Approval process. For example, purchase orders (PO's) are raised and signed by the appropriate signatories, POs are raised using the correct Finance codes, and invoices are processed using the correct PO numbers
• Continually monitor and evaluate the quality of data in the Group's PM tools, and actioning or raising to PMO Lead or PMO Analyst teams as appropriate.

Essential

• Excellent information analysis and presentation skills, with the ability to represent complex information in a simple and meaningful way
• Excellent information management, collation and reporting skills, and proficiency with reporting tools such as Clarity / Smartsheet PPM or other similar PPM tools
• Strong knowledge and experience of formal project management methodologies, project planning, project financial management, and project resource management
• Strong computer literacy, including advanced knowledge of the MS Office suite of products, and a willingness and skill to learn new tools quickly
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; proven ability to work within a team
• Experience in a similar project analysis or support role
• A strong customer service focus and the ability to build effective working relationships with employees and external stakeholders/suppliers
• The ability to work effectively in a team environment and to process deadlines.
• High attention to detail and an orderly approach to processing.

Preferred

• Experience and knowledge of large scale, global change programmes and portfolios
• Experience and knowledge of supporting a large number of projects
• Experience and knowledge of Purchase Ordering Systems
• Experience in a similar Support Function
• Experience in large investment banking or financial services organisations would be beneficial
• Experience working successfully with teams in multiple locations simultaneously
• Background in data support, data maintenance roles

Benefits:

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career!

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

• 25 days' holiday per year
• 1 additional day off for your Birthday
• Annual wellness allowance
• Share Purchase Plan
• Medical Health Insurance
• Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)
• Dental Coverage
• Life insurance
• Pillar 3 Private Pension
• Meal Vouchers
• Flexible Benefits
• Bookster
• Volunteering Events Team Buildings

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.

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