PMO Analyst (24 Month FTC)

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 PMO Analyst to join our Group Functions Change & Delivery team. This role is key to supporting governance and control across our portfolio, ensuring projects run effectively and stakeholders receive the highest level of service. If you’re organised, collaborative, and passionate about enabling successful delivery, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing:

• Coordinating governance forums and reporting cycles to support effective portfolio management
• Producing and reviewing artefacts for governance forums including status reports, RAID logs and change control
• Tracking portfolio and project costs, supporting forecasts and monitoring adherence to budgets
• Supporting project documentation creation and quality checking for stage gate processes
• Leading process improvements and cost reduction initiatives to promote continuous improvement
• Supporting transitions of PMO process and tooling changes into live environments
• Coordinating user training on PMO processes and mentoring junior analysts within the team
• Implementing governance and reporting for changes impacting customers to meet key checkpoints

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

• Previous experience working in a PMO environment, ideally embedded within a portfolio
• Familiarity with project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
• Strong organisational skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, PowerPoint and MS Project
• Ability to analyse processes, identify gaps and drive continuous improvement
• Exposure to financial tracking and the ability to contextualise data for project viability
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build strong stakeholder relationships
• Experience coordinating governance forums and producing high-quality reports and packs
• A proactive approach to problem-solving and supporting team development

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
• 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
• 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

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.