Senior PMO Analyst – 12 Month FTC

Closing Date: Thursday 28 November 2024

Location: Bradford, Chatham or Petersfield

We are happy for you to be based in Bradford, Chatham or Petersfield but please note that occasional travel will be required to our other office

Working Pattern: Our working style is hybrid, but we recognise the importance of collaborative working with our colleagues often 2 days per week in one of our offices

Benefits: Discretionary annual bonus, 25 days holiday up to 30 days (depending on service), pension scheme with matched company contributions up to 10%, 2 paid days to ‘give back’, enhanced maternity pay (once successfully passing probation), 4 weeks paid paternity, LinkedIn Learning for all, Snoop Premium, Private Medical Insurance

Don’t hesitate to apply for a role even if you don’t meet all the criteria; your unique strengths and eagerness to learn can be just as valuable.

You and Your Team:

As a Senior PMO Analyst, you will be reporting to the Senior PMO Lead.

In this role you will be supporting the Senior PMO Lead in defining, maintaining and executing the standards of change management and related processes. The role is crucial in ensuring the successful delivery of projects through effective monitoring and reporting, assisting colleagues with the best use of change management disciplines and approaches, and acting as key point of contact.

In your day-to-day role, as a Senior PMO Analyst, you will:

• Support project manager adherence to the change management framework, processes, and tools.
• Collate status reporting across multiple projects and portfolios.
• Track and communicate project status and metrics, reporting on project portfolio performance, providing a real-time, comprehensive, and prioritized view of all supported projects.
• Act as a senior reference point for PMO queries and information and an advocate for best practices in change management.
• Collate, manage, and present governance submissions through the defined governance framework.
• Undertake assurance reviews of key documents such as Project Status Reporting, Project Plans, Change Requests, and similar.
• Maintain processes to ensure change management documentation, reports, and plans are relevant, accurate, and complete.
• Provide assistance to maintain and update the change management framework and disciplines necessary to support the PMO Lead.
• Lead a small team of PMO Analysts, role modelling standards and behaviours, and providing coaching and support where required.
• Quality assure PMO Analysts’ work where appropriate.

What will make you stand out?

• Experience of working within a PMO or Project environment
• Ability to communicate effectively with a diverse range of people both internally and externally, displaying concern for impact.
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining excellent levels of attention to detail.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, with experience of MS Project and Visio or similar being desirable.

The interview process:

Our average process takes up to 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team throughout the process.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

Your working life: 

If you prefer to work part-time, we'll make this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance. A fear of losing your current working flexibility shouldn't hinder you from applying for new opportunities, which is why we aim to match your existing flexible working arrangements where possible.

Why work for us?

We’re Vanquis Banking Group plc, an FTSE All Share company and a leading specialist bank, established in 1880. We lend responsibly, providing tailored products and services to 1.75 million UK customers through Vanquis, Moneybarn, and Snoop. Our purpose is simple: to deliver caring banking so our customers can make the most of life’s opportunities.

At Vanquis Banking Group we believe in looking after our colleagues, so we do our best to create a rewarding, engaging, and supportive work environment across our various divisions.

We let our colleagues know we appreciate their hard work by offering competitive salaries, benefits, and a Group wide recognition scheme. All colleagues are eligible to join a pension scheme, and, after six months’ service, you can join our 'Buy as you Earn' schemes.

We offer a range of training and development opportunities to help each of our colleagues maximise their potential, whatever their role. From your first day working with us, we’ll help you settle into your new role and are happy to talk to you about your career aspirations.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Here at Vanquis Banking Group, we embrace everyone’s unique strengths and identities to be themselves at work. Regardless of how you identify yourself, your sexual orientation, martial or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national background, faith, disability, or age – your experiences and background help enrich our teams, and most importantly help support our customers in the best way possible. At the end of the day, it's our people that help us to fulfil the reason why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available to help. You can contact us at Talent.Acquisition@vanquis.com

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