Senior Analyst, PMO

Zafin Software Centre Of Excellence; Thiruvananthapuram; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Zafin Software Centre Of Excellence in Thiruvananthapuram is seeking a Senior Analyst, Business Performance and PMO to support governance, performance visibility, and data-driven decision-making across projects, programs, portfolios, and operations. You will coordinate governance forums, maintain reporting and dashboards, and highlight risks and opportunities.

The role requires 4-7 years of relevant experience, strong MS Office, MS Project, and knowledge of Power BI and Jira, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 4-7 years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• End to end understanding of IT life cycle (pipeline, resource, demand, project delivery, financial).
• Excellent knowledge of project management strategies, processes, and tools such as MS Project.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive visibility into project, program, portfolio, and functional performance, including status, risks, issues, costs, KPIs, and trends.
• Facilitate project governance forums, drive reporting cadence, and elevate risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies.
• Prepare and publish executive-ready dashboards, summaries, KPI updates, and variance commentary for SLT and management reviews.
• Support weekly and monthly governance activities, including project reporting compliance and timesheet compliance.
• Support FinOps reporting by tracking cloud cost trends, project-wise cost movements, anomalies, and savings opportunities.
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Delivery, Finance, Cloud Ops, SRE, and business teams to ensure data submission accuracy.
• Track client and project commitments, milestones, financial terms, and SLA/RTO/RPO requirements.
• Maintain data quality and governance across PMO tools (Jira, MS Project, Tempo, Power BI, Excel trackers).
• Promote adherence to governance standards, reporting expectations, and audit requirements.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and automate recurring PMO reports, dashboards, SOPs, and processes.
• Support strategic initiatives within the PMO scope.

Skills

MS Office

Project management

Analytical thinking

Education

A relevant project management qualification

Tools

Power BI

Jira

MS Project

Job description

Job Summary

As a Senior Analyst, Business Performance and PMO, you will support the management team by enabling effective project governance, performance visibility, and data-driven decision-making across projects, programs, portfolios, and functional operations. The role is responsible for coordinating governance activities, maintaining accurate reporting and dashboards, tracking key operational and financial metrics, and highlighting risks, issues, trends, and improvement opportunities.

Major Responsibilities

• Provide executive visibility into project, program, portfolio, and functional performance, including status, risks, issues, costs, KPIs, and key trends.
• Facilitate project governance forums, drive reporting cadence, and elevate risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies requiring management attention.
• Prepare and publish executive-ready dashboards, summaries, trend analyses, KPI updates, and variance commentary for SLT and management reviews.
• Support weekly and monthly governance activities, including project reporting compliance, timesheet compliance, resource utilization, demand-capacity tracking, and audit readiness.
• Support FinOps reporting by tracking cloud cost trends, project-wise cost movements, anomalies, optimization actions, and savings opportunities.
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Delivery, Finance, Cloud Ops, SRE, and business teams to ensure timely, complete, and accurate data submission.
• Track key client and project commitments, including milestones, financial terms, implementation obligations, SLA/RTO/RPO requirements, and operational follow-ups.
• Maintain data quality and governance across PMO tools, including Jira, MS Project, Tempo, Power BI, Excel trackers, and related reporting systems.
• Work with Project Managers to promote adherence to governance standards, reporting expectations, best practices, and audit requirements.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, simplify, and automate recurring PMO reports, dashboards, SOPs, and operational processes.
• Support strategic initiatives that fall within the scope of the PMO organization

Required Technical/Functional Skills / Qualifications

• 4-7 years of relevant experience
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• End to end understanding of IT life cycle (pipeline, resource, demand, project delivery, financial)
• Excellent knowledge of project management strategies, processes, and tools such as MS Project.
• Knowledge of Power BI, Jira
• Basic Awareness of ISO, ISMS
• A relevant project management qualification.

Required Behavioural / Soft Skills

• Ability to determine target audience and create communications that are clear, concise, and understandable.
• Ability to focus on delivering results in a dynamic environment with aggressive deadlines and multiple priorities.
• The ability to successfully balance workload demands, quality and performance on a consistent.
• Organizational and time management skills required.
• The ability to multitask and self-manage workday is crucial.
• Self-starter with proven record of driving results.
• Strong analytical, problem solving & decision-making skills.
• Ability to promote attention to detail & excellent process quality standards.
• Ability to handle change & consistently deliver high levels of service.
• Ability to establish strong working relationships with internal and external associates.
• Strong Communication skills, Client interaction skills, Team building & team management skills and good risk management skills.