- Professional
- Bureau à London
Strategy PMO Analyst – 6–12-month Fixed Term Contract
Division: Strategy
Department: Operations
Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £52,400 to £59,700 and London from £57,700 to £65,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory
Your recruitment contact is Riley Fox via [email protected]. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.
About the FCA and team
We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services.
The FCA’s Operations Department manages core business services, technology, data and infrastructure to ensure the regulator runs efficiently and can deliver its statutory objectives.
The FCA’s Strategy Division sets the regulators long term direction, focusing on deepening trust, rebalancing risk, supporting Economic growth, and fighting financial crime through smarter, more efficient regulation.
This role is instrumental to the operational management of the FCA’s 5- year strategy, which launched earlier this year.
Role responsibilities
Work in the FCA’s strategy team to support strategy colleagues in the coordination and management of the 4 teams delivering portfolios of change to deliver the FCA strategy
Work closely with a broad set of stakeholders across the strategy and need to support them in managing competing priorities
Analyse and synthesize data and reporting across the FCA’s 4 strategic themes
Identify themes and trends, dependencies and risks across the portfolios and propose ways of presenting conclusions to seniors, including C-Suite
Drive governance and best practices across a 4 diverse portfolios, ensuring strategic alignment and delivering insights that empower senior decision-making
Coordinate senior committees by managing board materials, assuring quality, and capturing key outcomes that influence organisational strategy
Skills required
Minimum:
Prior experience as a PMO at portfolio level
Demonstrable delivery experience of coordinating and synthesizing data across numerous multi-year projects or programmes
Proven experience with PMO governance, tools, and streamlining processes, and promoting best practice
Essential:
Highly motivated, bringing your PMO expertise, working with minimal direction and taking full ownership for deliverables
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to understand and summarise complex information into executive language and reporting
Experience as a secretariat of senior project/programme/portfolio level forums. Ability to produce high quality packs and minutes
Prior experience in managing large, complex projects, programmes or portfolio budgets
Ability to build strong and effective relationships with stakeholders and project team members
PMO certification e.g. P3O, MoP, PRINCE2 is beneficial
Demonstrable experience engaging and influencing with senior stakeholders
Benefits
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Hybrid model with up to 60% remote work
Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance
35 hours of paid volunteering annually
A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle
For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.
Our values and culture
Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.
If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.
We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.
Disability Confident: our hiring approach
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.
Useful information and timeline
Timeline:
Job advert close: 4th December
CV Review/Shortlist: 8th December
First Interview: w/c 15th December
Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.
