Project Management Office Analyst (12 Months FTC)

Project Management Office Analyst (12 months FTC)

Contract Type: 12 months Fixed Term Contract | Full Time

Location: Bradford, Petersfield or Chatham

Working Pattern: Hybrid—typically a couple of days a week in the office. Flexible arrangements are considered to support work-life balance. A fear of losing your current working flexibility shouldn't hinder you from applying for new opportunities, which is why we aim to match your existing flexible working arrangements where possible.

What We Offer

• Holidays: 25 days, increasing to 30 days with service
• Pension: Up to 10% employer contribution
• Family Leave: Enhanced maternity (post-probation) and 4 weeks paternity leave
• Workations: Work abroad for up to 20 days a year (approved countries)
• Volunteering: 2 paid days to support a charity of your choice
• Learning & Development: Access to LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues
• Financial Wellbeing: Free Snoop Premium subscription
• Connection & Culture: Quarterly socials, in-person and virtual company updates
• Healthcare: Option to join Private Medical Insurance
• Bonus: Discretionary annual bonus

The Role

Are you passionate about making change happen? We're looking for a proactive and detail-oriented PMO Analyst to play a key role in shaping and supporting our change management processes. In this dynamic role, you’ll help define and uphold our project standards, ensuring consistency and excellence across all initiatives.

As a central point of contact, you’ll empower teams by promoting best practices, providing insightful reporting, and enabling the successful delivery of projects. If you're ready to make a real impact and thrive in a collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you.

You and your Team

We’re a collaborative and forward-thinking team at the heart of change delivery, dedicated to driving excellence across our project portfolio. As a PMO Analyst, you’ll be joining an environment where your insights and attention to detail will help shape the way we manage and deliver change. Our team plays a pivotal role in defining and maintaining change management standards, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and effectively. From tracking performance metrics and supporting governance processes to championing best practices and continuous improvement, we’re passionate about enabling success across the business.

As a Project Management Office Analyst, you will:

• Support the project manager adherence to the change management framework, processes and tools.
• Collation of status reporting across multiple projects and portfolios.
• Tracking and communication of project status and metrics, reporting on project portfolio performance, providing a real-time, comprehensive, and prioritised view of all supported projects.
• Supports the creation and improvement of processes, procedures, and tools.
• Acts as a reference point for PMO queries and information and an advocate for best practices in change management.
• Collation, management & presentation of governance submissions through defined governance framework.
• Undertake assurance review of key documents e.g. Project Status Reporting, Project Plans, Change Requests & similar.
• Maintain processes to ensure change management documentation, reports and plans are relevant, accurate and complete.
• Provide assistance to maintain and update the change management framework and disciplines necessary to support the PMO.
• Assist in managing enterprise level resource allocation, including adjustments based on emerging business or challenges.

What We’re Looking For

• 2 years + experience gained within a PMO for a financial services/banking organisation
• Ability to work as part of a team and both take and receive views, as teamwork and sharing of issues is an absolute requirement.
• Ability to work under pressure, maintaining very high levels of attention to detail.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, and experience of MS Project and Visio or similar would be beneficial
• Demonstrates a thoughtful and structured approach — able to assess situations carefully before taking action.
• Demonstrates strong communication skills with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, with an awareness of how messages are received and the ability to adapt style to ensure clarity and make a positive impact.

Offers are subject to satisfactory background checks, including credit, fraud, and employment references.

Who we are

At Vanquis, we have a simple purpose: to deliver caring banking so our customers can make the most of life’s opportunities. Established in 1880, we’re now a FTSE All Share company and leading specialist bank. We lend responsibly, providing tailored products and services to over 1.69 million UK customers. We see ourselves as the bank that’s got your back.

Vanquis has been named one of the Financial Times UK’s Best Employers 2025, ranking in the top 50 nationwide and seventh in Banking and Financial Services. This recognition is based on independent employee feedback, reflecting our strong workplace culture, career growth opportunities, and commitment to our people.

We take care of our colleagues as well as our customers, working hard to create a rewarding and supportive work environment. That means competitive salaries, benefits, and a Group-wide recognition scheme. Everyone can enrol in our pension and after six months, you can join our ‘Buy as You Earn’ scheme.

We’re about more than financial rewards though. We give everyone a voice in the business and room to be their authentic self. And we know you’re here to build your career, so we help every colleague with training and development opportunities. Making sure there’s always something new to learn.

Equal Opportunities

Vanquis Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace everyone’s unique strengths and identities. No matter your background, identity, or experience, you are welcome here. We believe diversity enriches our teams and helps us better support our customers.

If there’s anything we can do to support you during the recruitment process—whether that’s a different format of the application or additional assistance—please contact us at [email protected].