Project Analyst

Salary: £26,400 – £28,800 per year

Project Analyst

Reports to: PMO & Resource Manager

Location: Telford, Shropshire

Term: Permanent

Schedule: Monday – Friday (08:30 – 17:00)

The Company is a fast growing, private-equity backed SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) group of businesses.

Comprised of a partnership of innovative technology companies, it is highly acquisitive and helps companies become more efficient, more effective and more profitable by providing innovative, integrated software solutions that grow with their business, adding essential functionality to help them to achieve their goals. Group companies provide payments, membership, business services, events & leisure and retail solutions. They are growing quickly both as a team and as a group of companies.

This is an opportunity to join a fast growing, highly acquisitive PE backed tech business during an exciting period of growth.

Established company with ambitious plans for growth
• Opportunities for development within the company
• Expanding company offering excellent career prospects
• Market leaders in their field
• Friendly working environment
• Modern offices
• Personalised training and development program

Free parking

Purpose – To provide project analysis, assurance and support.

The role of the PMO Analyst is a new role within the business and has been created to support the evolving PMO. This role will be predominantly focused on data analysis and resource management.

The Analyst would typically have prior experience in an administrative role, preferably in a project office environment. They would have experience in Microsoft Office tools including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint. The candidate must be able to deliver quality results while under time constraints of weekly/monthly reporting cycles.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential for this role in regard to the resource management element. They will need to be able to influence and negotiate to maximise resource utilisation where possible.

The expectation for the successful candidate would be to progress beyond the initial PMO role into Project Management, therefore drive and determination will be essential to achieve this.

Key Responsibilities

1. Responsible for the collation and analysis of weekly reports, identifying trends and escalating to the leadership team when required

2. Maintenance of project risks and issue logs, providing analysis on impact

3. Responsible for the administration and collation of documentation relating to the Delivery Governance Forum

4. Responsible for scheduling projects into the governance cycle to make sure all projects are reviewed in a timely manner

5. Maintaining Mavenlink resource demand and supply

6. Holding weekly resource meetings with development managers to keep revenue recognition targets on track

7. Maintaining the skills matrix for all staff under resource management on a quarterly basis in collaboration with development/delivery managers

8. Maintaining the qualifications database for all staff under resource management on a quarterly basis in collaboration with development/delivery managers

9. Maintaining SharePoint sites; uploading documents, allocating access, documentation version history

10. Collation, evaluation, and analysis of feedback from various sources, introducing any required elements into the lessons learnt process

11. Carry out project audits/health checks to ensure projects are working within prescribed methodologies

12. Provide support for project management tools currently utilised within group

Key Competencies

* Innovative

* Proactive

* Positive attitude

* Confident

* Good communicator

* Quality focused

* Analytical thinker

* Commercial awareness