PMO Analyst

About the Role

Project Planning and Monitoring

• Support project schedules, milestone plans, and deliverable trackers with workstream owners.
• Collect progress updates, check evidence, and flag missed deadlines, inconsistent information, and dependencies to the PMO Manager.
• Maintain action, decision, and RAID logs; follow up with owners before reporting cycles.

Reporting and Analysis

• Prepare dashboards and periodic status reports using agreed templates and definitions.
• Analyse milestone performance, KPIs, resource information, and budget inputs; explain variances and flag data gaps.
• Collect and validate project data for weekly and monthly reporting; refresh dashboards covering schedules, KPIs, risks, and actions.
• Draft status reports and executive slides; highlight trends or anomalies in progress, risk, and KPI data.

Governance and Coordination

• Organise project meetings, prepare materials, and record minutes, decisions, action owners, and due dates.
• Maintain document repositories, version control, and approval records for authorised users.
• Support stage reviews, mobilisation, and closure by compiling documentation and lessons learned; keep required documents current for leader requests.

Financial and Resource Support

• Consolidate and track budgets, expenditure, and forecasts from Finance and project owners; flag discrepancies for review.
• Track resource allocations and procurement or supplier milestones with responsible teams.
• Improve trackers, reporting templates, and data quality under PMO lead guidance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, project management, engineering, economics, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 2 to 4 years in PMO support, project coordination, reporting, or business analysis.
• Ability to maintain project plans, consolidate information from multiple contributors, and follow up systematically.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; able to interpret data and present clear findings.
• Understanding of project lifecycles, milestones, dependencies, risks, and basic budget monitoring.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consulting, development, philanthropic, conservation, tourism, or other multi-stakeholder programmes.
• Exposure to Power BI, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or comparable reporting and planning tools.
• Foundation-level project management training or certification; UAE or international project exposure.