Title: IT PMO Analyst
Location: New Orleans, LA / The Woodlands, TX – (Hybrid) 3 days/week to office 2 days remote
Position Overview
The client is seeking an experienced IT PMO Analyst to support a portfolio of IT projects and programs. The IT PMO Analyst will be responsible for collecting, analyzing, and consolidating project data into portfolio-level KPIs, dashboards, reports, forecasts, and executive-level insights.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the IT PMO in managing and reporting on a portfolio of projects and programs.
- Collect, validate, consolidate, and analyze project data from multiple Project Managers and workstreams.
- Develop and maintain portfolio-level KPIs, metrics, dashboards, and scorecards.
- Develop Power BI dashboards and reports for project and portfolio performance.
- Use Excel to perform data analysis, including PivotTables, formulas, charts, trend analysis, and dashboards.
- Analyze historical and current project performance and develop forecasts and forward-looking insights.
- Track portfolio health across schedule, budget, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and overall project status.
- Develop recurring monthly and quarterly portfolio reporting.
- Support annual planning and periodic budget and forecast reporting.
- Work with Project Managers to consolidate and maintain the Risk & Issues log.
- Track risks, issues, mitigation actions, owners, due dates, and escalation status.
- Analyze portfolio-level risk and issue trends and highlight significant items to PMO leadership.
- Prepare reports and presentations tailored to different audiences, including Project Managers, PMO leadership, stakeholders, and C-suite executives.
- Track vendor invoices, payments, and related project financial information.
- Monitor project financial performance and identify budget, forecast, or expenditure variances.
- Consolidate project-level information into executive-ready portfolio summaries.
- Identify trends, anomalies, risks, and performance gaps within the portfolio.
- Partner with Project Managers to improve the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of PMO reporting.
- Maintain standardized PMO reporting processes, templates, and data definitions.
- Support continuous improvement of PMO reporting, dashboards, KPIs, and portfolio analytics.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience working as an IT PMO Analyst, PMO Analyst, EPMO Analyst, PMO Operations Analyst, or similar role.
- Experience working within a large-scale IT project/program management environment.
- Strong experience developing portfolio-level KPIs, metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Power BI.
- Tableau experience may be considered where the candidate has equivalent dashboard/reporting expertise.
- Strong experience with Risk and Issue Management, including tracking, reporting, mitigation, and escalation.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including:
- PivotTables
- Advanced formulas
- Charts
- Data analysis
- Dashboards
Experience consolidating information from multiple projects/workstreams into portfolio-level reporting. Experience analyzing project performance, trends, forecasts, and variances. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to translate complex technical/project information into clear management and executive-level reporting. Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and presentation skills. Ability to work effectively with Project Managers, Program Managers, PMO leadership, vendors, and senior stakeholders.