Senior PMO Analyst (12 month Fixed-Term Contract)

Senior PMO Analyst (12 months Fixed-Term Contract)

Salary: National ranging from £51,000 - £60,000 and London from £56,000 - £70,000

Are you interested in being responsible for providing project insights to support the outcomes we expect across our financial services?

The team/department

Our Change Directorate is at the forefront of our ambition to transform the FCA into a data-led regulator, and our work enables the FCA to effectively regulate some of the UK’s most complex financial markets.

Within the Change Directorate we have EMO, ESG & International (EEI) Change Department. The department is responsible for the delivery of change to help shape and deliver divisional strategies to meet prioritised policy, regulatory and operational outcomes. We combine business and technical architecture, relationship management, portfolio, project and programme management, business change and business analysis expertise.

We support the Enforcement & Market Oversight (EMO) division with responsibilities for primary and secondary market monitoring (including the functions of the UK Listing Authority) and the investigation and prosecution of misconduct; Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) division with responsibility for developing and coordinating the FCA's strategy and commitments in ESG; and the International division that supports the international aspects of the FCA's objectives through relationships and engagement with overseas regulators, governments and stakeholders.

What you will be doing (the role)

• Report to the sub portfolio, providing setup, delivery, and analytical services for projects from the Direction stage to successful completion, ensuring outcome and benefits realization

• Implement and ensure adherence to standardized project controls, including governance, status reporting, RAID management, change control, quality management, health checks, and stage gate processes

• Support the development and maintenance of high-level and detailed project plans, delivering assurance and milestone progress reports while documenting corrective action plans for Amber or Red statuses

• Provide financial oversight for projects by collating financial data, forecasting, conducting variance analysis, and flagging issues with budget forecasts outside of agreed tolerances

• Produce high-quality Executive MI, board packs, agendas, and minutes to provide insights on project progress

• Build and manage stakeholder relationships across the FCA, facilitating key decision-making and ensuring adherence to configuration management standards for project deliverables

What you will get from the role  

• Working on strategically important initiatives, supporting one of the top 3 priorities for the FCA

• Exposure to significant and complex projects within financial services as part of a sub portfolio

• Providing PMO/assurance oversight in projects involving both the business and IT Change

• Working as part of a central team, supporting the provision of PMO as a service

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.  

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:  

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

• Private healthcare with Bupa  

• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)  

• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary  

• Income protection  

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.  

Minimum:

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role. 

• A track record of delivering PMO and governance services across a range of projects within an organisation of equivalent scale and complexity to the FCA (ideally financial services, government/regulatory body, technology, consultancy)

• Able to provide high quality project/programme/portfolio MI

• Evidence of Project or Programme management certifications (e.g. Prince 2, PMP, Agile, MSPs, P30 or APMP)  

Essential

• Methodical and able to justify and make recommendations using programme data and insights to improve project delivery

• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate project information to stakeholders and project teams

• Experienced user of MS Office Suite

• Experienced user of MS Project and Clarity or an equivalent project management tool

• Strong attention to detail both in completing PMO tasks and in quality assuring the work of peers and team members

• Ability to build strong and effective relationships with stakeholders and project team members

About the FCA  

The FCA regulates the conduct of nearly 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.  

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.  

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our senior associate role.   

Flexible working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements.  Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares.  We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.    
  

Multi-location

As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices.  This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.   

Useful information  

Applications for this role close at 23:59 on 4th November 2024

This role is graded as Senior Associate – Regulatory

Got a question?    

If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:  

For internal applicants, please contact Sara Holland at Sara.Holland2@fca.org.uk

For external applicants, please contact Ifrah Azam at Ifrah.Azam@fca.org.uk