PMO Analyst (24-Month FTC) in Cardiff

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income. 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 confident, collaborative and detail‑driven PMO Analyst to join our Group Functions Change & Technology portfolio. You’ll play a key role in strengthening governance, driving consistency and supporting delivery teams to ensure programmes and projects run smoothly. If you enjoy bringing structure, enabling effective decision‑making and working with a broad range of stakeholders, this could be the role for you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting governance across the portfolio, coordinating reporting cycles and helping establish new forum structures
• Producing and reviewing documentation for governance meetings, including quality‑checking reports and managing RAID and change control artefacts
• Preparing packs for portfolio meetings and capturing, tracking and managing actions, decisions and minutes
• Tracking project and portfolio costs, supporting forecasts, monitoring spend and highlighting issues or variances
• Supporting project teams with documentation for stage gates, coordinating approvals and maintaining quality standards
• Leading and championing process improvement activity to drive consistency, efficiency and continuous improvement
• Embedding updates to PMO processes and tooling, ensuring smooth transition to BAU and supporting demand and capacity reporting
• Coordinating training on PMO processes and tools, while coaching and supporting junior analysts

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in PMO and project planning, with the ability to support and coordinate plans across portfolios
• Experience working within a PMO environment, ideally embedded within change or transformation portfolios
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile, and when to apply them
• Confidence working with financial data, including forecasting, tracking and interpreting portfolio‑level costs
• Ability to identify inefficiencies, analyse processes and support continuous improvement activity
• Excellent organisational skills and strong proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to build strong relationships, communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience using PPM tools (e.g., KeyedIn or similar) is advantageous, and P3O or equivalent qualifications are beneficial

Benefits

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance‑related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (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 (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive 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 care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part‑time, term‑time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.