Analyst - Program PMO

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc.; Waukegan (IL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies, Inc. is seeking an Analyst - Program PMO in Lake County, IL for a 6-month assignment. The role provides integrated PMO support, governance, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis across complex programs.

You will collaborate with program managers, finance partners, and stakeholders to ensure accurate, timely, and actionable delivery and financial information. The analyst will produce dashboards and executive summaries, validate estimates, coordinate governance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, project management, information systems, or a related field.
• Experience supporting a PMO, program finance team, project controls function, or complex cross-functional programs.
• Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, accruals, financial reporting, and project governance.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with experience using project, portfolio, financial, or enterprise resource planning systems.
• Ability to consolidate complex project and financial data, identify trends, and translate findings into clear management insights.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, judgment, communication, and ability to manage competing deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Produce portfolio dashboards, executive summaries, variance analyses, and decision materials for PMO governance forums.
• Monitor program scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, actions, decisions, and change requests.
• Partner with program managers and finance teams to validate estimates, resource plans, funding needs, milestones, and financial assumptions.
• Coordinate governance meetings, prepare agendas and materials, capture decisions, and track actions through closure.
• Prepare and consolidate annual budgets, rolling forecasts, cost-to-complete estimates, and long-range financial plans.
• Track actual spending, commitments, purchase orders, accruals, resource costs, and financial benefits against approved plans.
• Investigate delivery and financial variances, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions or forecast adjustments.
• Support business cases, funding requests, scenario analysis, prioritization, and financial impact assessments.
• Maintain PMO and finance standards, templates, controls, assumptions, document repositories, and audit-ready records.
• Coordinate month-end and quarter-end activities, including accruals, reconciliations, forecast submissions, and management reporting.
• Analyze resource capacity, demand, utilization, cost trends, and delivery performance to identify risks and opportunities.
• Support stage-gate reviews, audits, lessons learned, and continuous improvement of PMO financial and governance processes.
• Provide concise, data-driven recommendations to program and executive leadership.

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial reporting

Program governance

Data consolidation

Stakeholder communication

Deadline management

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, project management, information systems, or related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Jira

Smartsheet

Job description

Title: Analyst - Program PMO

Duration: 06 Months

Location: Lake County, IL

Summary

The Analyst - Program PMO provides integrated project management office and financial analysis support for complex programs. The role combines program governance, delivery reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cost control, resource analysis, and executive decision support. Working closely with program managers, finance partners, workstream leads, procurement, and business stakeholders, the analyst ensures that delivery and financial information is accurate, timely, consistent, and actionable.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce portfolio dashboards, executive summaries, variance analyses, and decision materials for PMO governance forums.
• Monitor program scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, actions, decisions, and change requests.
• Partner with program managers and finance teams to validate estimates, resource plans, funding needs, milestones, and financial assumptions.
• Coordinate governance meetings, prepare agendas and materials, capture decisions, and track actions through closure.
• Prepare and consolidate annual budgets, rolling forecasts, cost-to-complete estimates, and long-range financial plans.
• Track actual spending, commitments, purchase orders, accruals, resource costs, and financial benefits against approved plans.
• Investigate delivery and financial variances, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions or forecast adjustments.
• Support business cases, funding requests, scenario analysis, prioritization, and financial impact assessments.
• Maintain PMO and finance standards, templates, controls, assumptions, document repositories, and audit-ready records.
• Coordinate month-end and quarter-end activities, including accruals, reconciliations, forecast submissions, and management reporting.
• Analyze resource capacity, demand, utilization, cost trends, and delivery performance to identify risks and opportunities.
• Support stage-gate reviews, audits, lessons learned, and continuous improvement of PMO financial and governance processes.
• Provide concise, data-driven recommendations to program and executive leadership.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, project management, information systems, or a related field.
• Experience supporting a PMO, program finance team, project controls function, or complex cross-functional programs.
• Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, accruals, financial reporting, and project governance.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with experience using project, portfolio, financial, or enterprise resource planning systems.
• Ability to consolidate complex project and financial data, identify trends, and translate findings into clear management insights.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, judgment, communication, and ability to manage competing deadlines.

Preferred

• Experience supporting enterprise transformation, technology, or other large-scale programs.
• Experience with Power BI, Jira, Smartsheet, or similar tools.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, hybrid delivery, stage-gate governance, portfolio management, and financial control practices.