About the Role
A PMO Analyst serves as a central support role within the Project Management Office, ensuring that projects and programs are executed in a structured, consistent, and data-driven manner. The PMO Analyst focuses on collecting and analyzing project data, maintaining reporting dashboards, and enforcing governance standards. This role has the primary responsibility to track progress, identify risks, and provide insights that support decision-making. The PMO Analyst also contributes to improving processes, standardizing tools and templates, and ensuring alignment with established FTA framework and PMBOK or Agile approaches. Overall, a PMO Analyst acts as the backbone of project visibility and control, collecting & preparing project data, processes, and communications to assist organizations in delivering projects more effectively.
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Operational Roles
To manage and track the progress of projects, PMO Analysts perform various tasks in their day-to-day work. Some of the primary duties and responsibilities include:
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Project Reporting & Analysis
- Manage the dashboards and reports (Project status, risks, KPIs)
- Analyze project performance data and highlight trends or issues
- Provide insights to required stakeholders
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Governance & Compliance
- Ensure projects follow PMO standards, methodologies, and templates
- Monitor adherence to PMO methodology aligned with international standards such as PMBOK and Agile approaches
- Support audit and compliance activities
- Conduct Project Phase Gates Governance
- Perform Quality Assurance reviews of project documentation
- Perform Phase-Gate findings, reporting, and trend analysis
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Portfolio Support
- Assist with project Business Case, prioritization, and portfolio reporting and tracking
- Track resource allocation and capacity aligned with the Delivery Managers
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Process Improvement
- Identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements based on trends and findings
- Assure standardization of project management methodology and templates
- Support PMO maturity initiatives
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Tools Support
- Professional experience and knowledge of the following tools is required:
- Project management platforms (MS Project, Jira)
- Reporting tools (Power BI)
- Project document management tools
- Collaboration tools (SharePoint, MS Teams)
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or other related fields
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is a plus
Preferred Requirements
- ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and/or PMP (Project Management Professional) certification
- 4+ years of relevant work experience
- 8+ years of relevant work experience
- Knowledge in project operational planning and financial management
