Senior PMO Analyst

Business Unit: Chief Operating Office
Salary range: £42,000 - £47,000
Location:  UK Hybrid - With quarterly travel to a local hub. 
Contract type: 12 month FTC 

Our Team

You’ll be responsible for a wide range of activities across Change & Delivery, collaborate with a diverse group of colleagues, so as you can imagine, no two days are the same.  You will work closely with the Delivery Teams to ensure the individual Programme and Projects have quality governance including project status, milestones, capabilities, risks, issues and dependencies.

What you'll be doing

• Facilitate and attend key senior management Governance Forums. Build packs and proactively manage actions/decisions through to closure.
• Work in partnership with the programme & delivery teams, offering guidance to ensure the programmes are adhering to Value Delivery Framework.
• Lead and drive governance and reporting process improvements to streamline and simplify for users, working closely with the 3 lines of defence.
• Identification of knowledge gaps and training opportunities and lead the resolution alongside other PMO teams.
• Lead trend analysis activity across the full project life cycle working with multiple stakeholders e.g. 1st and 2nd line of defence.

We’d love you to have:

• PMO and/or Project delivery experience, using recognised methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, Prince 2 etc)
• Jira experience, working with project data including RAID, capabilities, and status reporting
• Day to day task management experience
• Strong analytical, planning and problem-solving skills with an eye for detail.
• Experience of delivering to tight deadlines, prioritising workload and delivering to an established standard
• A positive approach and natural ability to collaborate and work with stakeholders at all levels across the business
• Confidence to challenge and influence to get the best outcome
• The ability to communicate clearly (in both visual material and verbally) in a straight up, succinct way keeping the complex simple
• Insatiable curiosity so you can truly under requirements and the ask
• The ability to quickly understand complex systems and processes
• Excellent MS Office knowledge (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Experience of working in a Programme Management Office or within large scale Programmes/Tribes
• Resilience to stimulate debate and challenge proposals to ensure best outcomes achieved
• The ability to think strategically, and bring together lower-level details to help understand wider impacts for the bank, customers and colleagues across all projects

Red Hot Rewards 

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more. 

• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​.  

• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.  

• Market-leading pension.  

• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.  

• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.  

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one. 

If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early. Please ensure to submit your applications as soon as possible.  

Say hello to Virgin Money

Virgin Money is so much more than just a bank. As part of the Nationwide group, together we're the UK's first full-service mutual bank serving millions of retail and business customers and all driven by our purpose; Banking but fairer, more rewarding and for the good of society. With us, you’ll be part of an organisation uniquely positioned to make a difference to the lives of customers, communities and broader society and embark on a collaborative, customer obsessed, and fun-filled career journey. Embrace the weekdays, enjoy fantastic perks, and make a meaningful positive difference. Time to discover what it means to be part of the first mutual full-service banking provider.  

Be yourself at Virgin Money

At Virgin Money, we celebrate everyone. We have fun, think big, and relentlessly include each other, all in pursuit of our purpose: Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.    

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Please note: If we receive a high volume of eligible applications, we may need to prioritise candidates whose skills and experience most closely align with the role, while still ensuring fair and equitable consideration for all applicants.

Now the legal bit
Although some of our roles allow you to be based anywhere in the UK, we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. 

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.