Senior PMO Analyst

Kroll is seeking a Senior PMO Analyst who will work within the Project Management Office (PMO) to support project and program management activities including firmwide Operating Cadence Co-ordination, Planning, Control, Reporting, Analysis and Providing insights across the change portfolio.

Day-to-day responsibilities:

Operating Cadence Co-ordination:

• Supporting the Office of the COO and Chief of Staff to standardize leadership meetings across Kroll.
• Managing the Operating Cadence calendar, communicating changes promptly and effectively.
• Owning the Operating Cadence Project Plan, ensuring timelines are adhered to and Exec Sponsors are appropriately updated.
• Ensuring roles and responsibilities are clearly defined with aligned objectives, adapting the project plan as needed.
• Encouraging meeting owners and stakeholders to remain agile and responsive to changing circumstances.
• Ensuring relevant attendees and delegates are captured, meeting materials are published within agreed timeline and supporting with the publishing of meeting minutes where applicable.
• Liaising with the communication and technical teams, supporting with the creation and implementation of automation, digitization and other enhancements.

Reporting of Project and Portfolio MI:

• Assisting the PMO Manager and wider Project Management community with the analysis of information for reporting and status updates.
• Assessing and challenging Portfolio and Project Managers on project status reports, ensuring adjustments where necessary.
• Production of project MI and reports, covering delivery, schedule, budget, resource, issue, and risk management updates.
• Review of project artefacts, ensuring adherence to required standards and delivery of breakthroughs and project timelines.
• Creating, assessing and maintaining standardized project governance material including templates, workflows and process documentation.
• Circulating these across the Project and Portfolio Management community.

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.
• Provision of analysis commentary for project, programme and/or portfolio reporting, working with PMO Manager.
• Provision of guidance and advice to the project manager in the adoption of and compliance with the required project management standards.

Change and Communication:

• Contribute to project collaborator identification and communication planning.
• Deliver timely, 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.
• Provide communications to all partners across the portfolio including, but not limited to, Finance Business Partners, Project Managers and PMO.
• Communicate professionally and efficiently with Programme & Project teams to ascertain relevant and timely updates for reports/presentation.
• Ability to review issues with a new perspective, identifying innovative and alternative approaches to addressing and resolving them.

Required skills and experience:

• Excellent information analysis and presentation skills, with the ability to represent complex information with a simple and structured approach.
• Ability to be proactive and use initiative to achieve a successful outcome in a timely manner.
• Remaining autonomous and taking ownership of tasks independently, keeping PMO Manager informed as required.
• Excellent information management, collation and reporting skills, and proficiency with reporting tools such as Smartsheet, Monday.com 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, specifically Excel, and a willingness and skill to learn new tools quickly.
• Experience in a similar project analysis 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.
• 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.
• Continually monitor and evaluate the quality of data in the PM tools, and actioning or raising to PMO Manager or PMO Lead as appropriate.

About Kroll

Join the global leader in risk and financial advisory solutions—Kroll. With a nearly century-long legacy, we blend trusted expertise with cutting-edge technology to navigate and redefine industry complexities. As a part of One Team, One Kroll, you’ll contribute to a collaborative and empowering environment, propelling your career to new heights. Ready to build, protect, restore and maximize our clients’ value? Your journey begins with Kroll.

Kroll is committed to equal opportunity and diversity, and recruits people based on merit.

In order to be considered for a position, you must formally apply via careers.kroll.com.

Kroll is headquartered in New York with offices around the world.

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