Job Description

As part of our continued growth and ambition to become the best and biggest digital insurer in the UK, we have an exciting new opportunity in our CIO division for an experienced Senior PMO Analyst.

This role will sit in our PMO function and will support several varied projects simultaneously. We are looking for candidates with established, commercial experience as a Senior PMO Analyst within the financial services or insurance industry, who can manage competing demands with a pragmatic, flexible and responsive approach.

You will provide, maintain and support established governance processes, adding quality, efficiency and reducing manual intervention via automation where possible. You will be working closely with the project/programme managers and the Head of Portfolio Management.

About the role

• Using automation Tools such as Excel Macro\'s, MS Teams and Power Apps, automating existing governance functions such as the collation and publication of multiple project and scrum team reports
• Support and manage Programme and Project Manager\'s within the portfolio, ensuring delivery of key strategic goals and projects and aiding the development of teams to align with HD Standards.
• Demonstrate extensive business acumen and professional judgement in applying the Change Framework, with context of project/programme priorities, and holding others to account for non-adherence.
• Assist in the creation of project business cases, identifying the business impact, the probability of satisfying business needs, the anticipated business benefits and the risks and consequences of failure.
• Report progress of the portfolio to senior management with specific emphasis on business objectives, delivery, effective risk and issue management, portfolio volatility with respect to scope and quality changes, and process improvements.
• Responsible for the development and ongoing production of Portfolio Dashboards, providing portfolio health metrics including key risks and performance indicators.

About you

• Strong automation experience and skills from within a PMO
• Experience in project/portfolio resource planning, reporting, prioritisation and budgeting
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the proven ability to work effectively with all organisational levels
• Strong knowledge of risk management, standards and policy formulation
• Strong in financial management and organisational change management
• Excellent documentation skills; ability to create high quality steering committee materials
• Experience and knowledge of large scale, global, change programmes and portfolio management
• Background in working across a number of different sectors both business and IT related projects/programmes
• Knowledge of technology estates and technologies desirable

Benefits for you

• Competitive basic salary which we will share with you upon shortlisting
• \xc2\xa35000 car allowance
• Up to 20% bonus
• 10% matching pension
• 27 days holiday
• Life assurance
• Flexible benefits - buy or sell holidays

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. Please also note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.

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