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This role requires 2 days per week onsite in Glasgow, Scotland. You will not be considered if you cannot commit to this.

Gibbs Hybrid require a PMO Analyst with a strong financial services background to work for a top UK IT services contractor on a contract with their client, a top UK FS organisation. You will need to have working in financial services recently to be considered.

Rate: £350-£375per day (inside) - Non-negotiable
Location: Glasgow 2 days per week
Length: 6 months initial contract

Key Accountabilities
* Oversight and quality assurance of all key Programme governance forums, ensuring that appropriate materials are provided, and actions are recorded and tracked through to completion
* Driving governance standards across the Programme, working closely with PMs to ensure consistency of approach
* Financial control and tracking Programme spend versus business case. Providing effective challenge and test to monthly actuals and all budget submissions
* Support the Lead PMO and PMs with all Programme reporting, ensuring all reporting is consistent, appropriate for the intended audience and submitted on time
* Management of Programme RAIDs, ensuring these are appropriately challenged and escalated to the relevant forums.
* Production of high quality presentations and briefing materials
* Maintaining and actively managing Project/Programme documentation and reporting. Facilitating key governance fora, reinforcing the accountabilities of stakeholders to ensure data-led decisions are made by the right people.
* Safeguarding effective change control processes, ensuring the business case is update and managed through appropriate governance.
* Work with the PM to ensure the effective tracking of benefits & costs, driving budget efficiency and drawing on data-led insights to inform delivery. Challenge prioritisation of stop/start/continue decisions.
* Work alongside the Project Manager to effectively monitor progress, ensuring the planned outputs deliver the agreed outcomes and remain relevant.
* Ensure the early identification and effective management of RAIDs, including tracking of thematic issues, and completing Change Risk Impact Assessment as required.
* Ensure the timely provision of MI, creating engaging reports for management use.
* Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework and internal client policies and Policy Standards.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
* Experienced PMO with a track record of supporting multiple projects/programmes.
* Understanding of Programme/Project management methodologies and governance.
* High proficiency in MSP, PowerPoint and Excel.
* Prince 2/Agile or equivalent APM.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience working in a PMO function for a large-scale, federated delivery programme, including project planning, risk and issue management, dependency management, governance processes, reporting
* Understanding of finance procedures, in particular awareness of working on a diverse programme/portfolio including multiple funding sources/cross charging complexities and challenges that need to be overcome as a result
* High degree of organisational awareness
* Experience of working with senior stakeholders
* Strong communication skills and ability to deliver complex messages clearly and succinctly -
* Attention to detail and quality assurance performance.
* Solid problem-solving skills
* Experience of working across complex change projects/programmes
* Experience of supporting audits or external consultant reviews and working on regulatory responses (desirable).

Interested? Please apply for immediate consideration from the Gibbs Hybrid team.