PMO Analyst
About the role
R3’s Professional Services team works to bring Corda specialist expertise to our customers to make their adoption successful. We engage directly with our customers to design, build, deploy and advise them on their Corda journey to ensure long-term capabilities are sustained. Through business consulting, technical solutions and implementation, we help customers achieve their goals most effectively for their business, owning projects ranging from small design POCs to full-end to end implementations for Digital Currencies and Digital Assets real-world problems.
Our customer-centric and innovative approach to providing services and solutions in the industry allows us to strategically assess our customer’s needs and ensure they are set up for success from the beginning of their journey. In addition to working directly with our customers, we strive to collaborate internally with our Sales, Engineering and Product organisations to provide better tooling, services and products based on our customer’s evolving needs.
Responsibilities
- Reporting to the Programme Manager, you will be responsible for assisting with planning project management activities, analysing financial information to keep projects on track, and collaborating with different departments to ensure all leaders understand where the project is in the process. Ultimately, you will work with leaders across various departments to help streamline the project delivery to ensure we reach our goals and keep deliverables on track for timely completion:
- Day to day delivery of PMO tools and processes to support the Programme and Project Manager(s) in effectively monitoring progress and escalating issues and risks to the relevant level of Governance.
- Owning the status reporting process and responding to ad hoc requests from Senior Management.
- Participating in key project meetings – producing action minutes, recording decisions and tracking actions.
- User administration and document management of project SharePoint site, ensuring that latest copies of key project documentation are available to all team members.
- Maintaining programme issues and risks registers.
- Maintaining dependency logs.
- Maintaining programme action registers.
- Establishing, implementing and supporting key Programme, Project and Governance meetings.
- Ensuring appropriate audit trail exists for project key decisions that have been completed.
- Championing the application of Change Framework across the project.
- Provide analytical support to Programme Manager as required.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Proven work experience as a Project Management Analyst or a similar role.
- Excellent organizational and technical abilities.
- Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and MS Projects skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail and technicalities.
- Strong interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.
- Comfortable and able to work under pressure.
- Understanding of the principles and complexities of delivering enterprise software to an external client.
Nice to have competencies:
- Atlassian Jira & Confluence and Salesforce experience is an advantage.
- Previous experience of working in payments or FinTech.
About R3
R3 is the leader in digital currency, digital assets and interoperability solutions. R3 supports Central Banks, Corporates and FMIs by providing them with solutions to progress financial markets digitization. R3ers center around our core values – Collaborative, Ownership, Bold and Customer First. As a result, our leading open, permissioned DLT platform, Corda, is powering the tokenization of assets and currencies connecting global markets.
R3 is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace that supports all ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, origins, disability and veteran status and cultures. At R3, we’re committed to fostering an environment where individuality–not conformity–is embraced and valued because we believe our collective differences are what make us better together.
If you don’t meet all of the above criteria, but you think you’d be a great addition to R3, send us your resume. We’re always interested in meeting bold, collaborative people who are excited to work with us.