PMO Analyst

at  LegalAndGeneral

Company Description
Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.
Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.
Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.
Job Description
We’re looking for a PMO Analyst to join us in Hove!
You’ll play a key role in supporting the Service Owner for our infrastructure services, to track the management of costs, as well as providing resource demand management, strategy and planning, and oversight of the governance of the Lifecycle Management portfolio.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working with the Service Owner and other colleagues to deliver functions and services with a measurable impact on the effectiveness of the tower and ensuring alignment to strategic objectives
• Ensuring adherence to governance standards, working alongside the wider Group Tech PMO, and supporting any audit requirements
• Financial management including budget planning, tracking costs, managing forecasts with the relevant spend owners, resolving queries with Finance and our suppliers, raising purchase orders and other financial admin
• Providing high-quality regular and ad-hoc reporting, co-ordinating inputs, data analysis and validation (including challenging inconsistencies) and developing new reporting to meet new needs
• Providing additional support to the Service Owner as required (e.g., demand planning, recruitment and vacancy management, data analysis, taking minutes, delegating for meetings)

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

• Naturally, you’ll have previous experience as a PMO Analyst
• Good knowledge of project management processes, governance and controls, tools, performance measurement and metrics
• An in-depth understanding of financial processes, including tracking and management
• You’ll also be well versed in collaborating with colleagues across a variety of seniority levels
• Experience with Power BI / Keyedin (PPM tool) would be a huge plus!

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information
Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.
We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.
If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.
We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.
If you’re open to find out more, we’d love to hear from you

What you’ll be doing:

• Working with the Service Owner and other colleagues to deliver functions and services with a measurable impact on the effectiveness of the tower and ensuring alignment to strategic objectives
• Ensuring adherence to governance standards, working alongside the wider Group Tech PMO, and supporting any audit requirements
• Financial management including budget planning, tracking costs, managing forecasts with the relevant spend owners, resolving queries with Finance and our suppliers, raising purchase orders and other financial admin
• Providing high-quality regular and ad-hoc reporting, co-ordinating inputs, data analysis and validation (including challenging inconsistencies) and developing new reporting to meet new needs
• Providing additional support to the Service Owner as required (e.g., demand planning, recruitment and vacancy management, data analysis, taking minutes, delegating for meetings

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the hear