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 contributes to improving processes, standardizing tools and templates, and ensuring alignment with the established FTA framework and PMBOK or Agile approaches. Overall, this role acts as the backbone of project visibility and control, collecting and preparing project data, processes, and communication to help organizations deliver projects more effectively.
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Operational Roles
To effectively manage and track the progress of projects, PMO Analysts must perform various tasks on a daily basis. 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, reports, and trends
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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 for the trends and findings
- Assure the standardization of project management methodology and templates
- Support PMO maturity initiatives
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Tools Support
- Proficient experience and knowledge of the following tools is required:
- Project management platforms (MS Project, Jira)
- Reporting tools (Power BI)
- Projects document management tool
- Collaboration tools (SharePoint, MS Teams)
Requirements
Minimum:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related degree
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certificate is a plus
Preferred:
- ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and/or PMP (Project Management Professional) certificate
- 4+ years of relevant work experience
- 8+ years of relevant work experience
- Knowledge in project operational planning and financial management.
