PMO Analyst Al Futtaim Private Company (LLC)

The PMO Analyst is responsible for supporting key initiatives within the Enterprise IT portfolio, facilitating their initiation, delivery, and implementation to ensure successful outcomes. This role demands ensuring governance and controls are implemented and monitored effectively. It involves direct involvement with project managers and business solution managers, especially for large projects, where the PMO Analyst contributes to quality reviews and coordinates activities to support quality objectives. The analyst plays a critical role in evolving processes, rescuing projects, and measuring business benefit delivery against project cases.

What You Will Do:

Program Management Office (PMO) & Project Portfolio Delivery

• Develop the IT Project Standards guide by seeking contributions from project managers and other stakeholders to ensure best practices.
• Evolve processes and templates throughout the project lifecycle for continuous improvement.
• Manage delivery of small to medium-sized IT projects, ensuring on-time completion and budget adherence.
• Support large-scale group and transformational projects to ensure aligned project plans.
• Build and maintain a repository of project processes and templates to identify best practices.
• Measure business benefits delivery against agreed-upon business cases.

Governance & Control

• Implement governance standards across the project portfolio, including status tracking and deliverables monitoring.
• Ensure accurate financial controls for tracking, monitoring, forecasting, and budgeting of project expenditures.
• Compile project metrics to assess success and adherence to defined processes.
• Manage a Lessons Learned repository from Post Project Review meetings for continuous improvement.
• Identify and manage cross-functional risks related to project delivery.
• Conduct audits and quality checks at key project intervals and post-project.
• Perform project launch timings and approvals, ensuring accurate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reporting.
• Conduct Project Completion Reviews and maintain a Process Compliance Index for project managers.

Financial Management, Administration & Support

• Support Al-Futtaim businesses using PMIS (WorkFront) and other project management tools.
• Aid EIT in resource management and ensure project control systems integrate essential data.
• Coordinate regular project and program-level reporting cycles including project governance arrangements.
• Perform project financial reviews and manage postings.
• Verify monthly vendor invoices and ensure proper revenue recognition and profit and loss divisional postings.