PMO Analyst Full Time

Longthorpe, Cambridgeshire
Zellis

About the role

As a PMO Analyst you’ll be responsible for managing the planning activities for Zellis implementation projects and programmes, analysing financial information to keep projects on track, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure all leaders understand where a project is in the development process.

Your role will be critical to ensuring our implementation practice delivers a brilliant and efficient experience for customers, as well as achieves our revenue and profit targets, through your work with colleagues across the Zellis Customer Solutions (ZCS) team as well as wider stakeholders from other departments.

You’ll have excellent stakeholder management and client relationship building skills at all levels, to ensure you can support the delivery of programmes and projects in accordance with the company s defined methodology and governance. As well as this, you’ll need to be comfortable working at pace, operating both independently and as a part of a team, with strong attention to detail as we work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities every day.

In this role your key responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing the development of projects and ensuring that team members are carrying out their tasks efficiently.
• Successfully managing and updating a number of key project deliverables, including the project and programme plan (at multiple levels), workstream plans, objectives, milestones, risks and issues, status reporting, and governance.
• Accurately documenting and presenting on the programme and project’s development and execution, as well as documenting the project’s scope, budget, and justification.
• Supporting the Programme Director or Project Manager to report on the P&L and commercial margin of the delivery, and providing financial reports and budget outlines for internal review.
• Collaborating with other department leaders to support programme and project activities.
• Keeping Zellis and Customer CRM, and project or programme management systems, up to date.
• Scheduling governance meetings within the PMO, Programme and Project Managers, taking minutes during meetings.
• Offering regular support in completing project functions to Programme and Project Managers and Consultant teams.

Skills & experience

• Relevant experience demonstrated in a similar role, preferably with medium-large scale implementation, software, advisory or managed services customers with medium-large scale employee volumes (over 10,000 EEs and £300k budgets).
• Experience tracking and reporting on project KPIs, objectives, financial measures, planning, resourcing, deliverables, change controls, and successful outcomes with internal and customer stakeholders (with support and guidance from Engagement Director, Programme and Project Managers).
• Exceptional planning skills to enable you to deliver your own work within deadlines (work and delivery is monitored and reviewed at agreed milestones).
• Understands and applies appropriate methods, tools, applications, and processes.
• Follows a methodical approach to identify and resolve simple risks and issues, and can anticipate and raise more complex risks and issues to enable them to be mitigated.
• Takes the initiative to develop skills and knowledge by identifying (and agreeing with manager) appropriate development opportunities.
• Excellent, confident communicator, able to communicate clearly with stakeholders at all levels.
• Highly organised and experienced at balancing multiple competing priorities.
• IT literate and confident at learning and using new systems.
• Natural problem solver, experienced at dealing with issues, recommending solutions and supporting through to resolution.
• Competent in gaining an understanding of project support requirements, to assist Programme and Project Managers and Consultants in working efficiently and effectively with customers.
• Project Management qualifications may be advantageous.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We’re passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.