PMO Support Analyst

The PMO Support Analyst will provide day‑to­day operational and administrative support to the PMO Manager and wider programme team within a major Finance & Data transformation programme. The role focuses on maintaining delivery discipline, supporting governance processes, and ensuring high‑quality coordination across stakeholders through effective tracking, reporting, and organisation. The analyst will support initiatives spanning financial processes, systems, data platforms, reporting, and analytics, ensuring alignment between business, finance, and technology teams.

• Support the PMO Manager in the mobilisation and ongoing operation of the programme management office within Finance & Data initiatives.
• Coordinate programme activities across finance, data, and technology work streams, ensuring alignment with governance frameworks and delivery standards.
• Maintain central PMO documentation, templates, and repositories, including artefacts related to financial reporting, data governance, and systems implementation.
• Maintain and update the programme RAID log, ensuring entries reflect impacts across finance processes, data quality, reporting and regulatory requirements.
• Track risks, issues, and dependencies across finance and data work streams, following up with owners to ensure timely updates and resolution.
• Support escalation of risks related to data integrity, financial controls, system migrations and reporting accuracy.
• Assist in the preparation of programme reporting, including status reports, dashboards and governance packs, with inputs from finance transformation and data delivery teams.
• Ensure reporting inputs such as financial milestones, data delivery metrics and system readiness are submitted on time and meet agreed standards.
• Support tracking of milestones such as financial close improvements, ERP/system implementations, data platform delivery and reporting enhancements.
• Help monitor KPIs related to data quality, financial accuracy and reporting timelines.
• Schedule and organise governance forums, working groups and stakeholder meetings involving Finance, Data, IT and business stakeholders.
• Prepare agendas and pre‑read materials including financial performance updates, data dashboards and programme insights.
• Capture clear meeting minutes, decisions and actions, ensuring traceability across finance and data topics.
• Track and follow up on actions, particularly those related to financial controls, data remediation and reporting outputs.
• Assist in maintaining integrated programme plans across finance transformation, data migration and analytics work streams.
• Support progress tracking, highlighting delays or risks related to financial reporting cycles, data availability or system dependencies.
• Ensure alignment between plans, RAID logs and reporting outputs, particularly where finance and data dependencies intersect.
• Support communication activities across finance and data stakeholders, ensuring clarity on programme objectives and changes.
• Assist in change management activities, including adoption of new finance systems, data tools and reporting processes.
• Help maintain communication plans to support user adoption, data literacy and finance process transformation.
• Ensure stakeholders are informed, aligned and engaged, particularly regarding data governance and financial reporting changes.

• Experience working in a PMO, project coordination or project support role, preferably within Finance or Data transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of finance processes such as record‑to‑report, procure‑to‑pay and financial reporting and/or data domains such as data governance, data quality and analytics.
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities across complex programmes.
• Familiarity with RAID management, governance processes and reporting practices.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and experience with data or reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Strong communication and stakeholder coordination skills across business, finance and technical teams.
• PRINCE2 Foundation or equivalent project management certification.
• Exposure to Agile or hybrid delivery environments.
• Experience in Finance transformation (e.g., ERP, EPM, finance systems) or Data programmes (e.g., data platforms, reporting, governance).
• Highly organised, proactive and detail‑oriented.
• Strong ownership of tasks, especially in supporting data accuracy and financial reporting integrity.
• Clear communicator with a collaborative mindset across cross‑functional teams.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, dynamic transformation environment.
• Comfortable supporting senior stakeholders and handling confidential financial and data‑related information.