Pmo Planning Analyst (Fintech)

TL;DR

Pmo Planning Analyst (Fintech): Supporting governance, driving consistency, and assisting delivery teams to ensure programs and projects run smoothly with an accent on strengthening governance and enabling effective decision‑making. Focus on producing documentation for governance meetings, tracking project and portfolio costs, and leading process improvement activity.

Location: Hybrid in Cardiff, UK

Company

hirify.global (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836.

What you will do

• Supporting governance across the portfolio, coordinating reporting cycles and helping establish new forum structures.
• Producing and reviewing documentation for governance meetings, including quality‑checking reports and managing RAID and change control artefacts.
• Preparing packs for portfolio meetings and capturing, tracking and managing actions, decisions and minutes.
• Tracking project and portfolio costs, supporting forecasts, monitoring spend and highlighting issues or variances.
• Supporting project teams with documentation for stage gates, coordinating approvals and maintaining quality standards.
• Leading and championing process improvement activity to drive consistency, efficiency and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Proven experience in PMO and project planning, with the ability to support and coordinate plans across portfolios.
• Experience working within a PMO environment, ideally embedded within change or transformation portfolios.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies, including Waterfall and Agile, and when to apply them.
• Confidence working with financial data, including forecasting, tracking and interpreting portfolio‑level costs.
• Excellent organisational skills and strong proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to build strong relationships, communicate clearly and collaborate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience using PPM tools (e.g., KeyedIn or similar) is advantageous, and P3O or equivalent qualifications are beneficial.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to participate in annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.
• Generous pension contribution and life assurance.
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only).
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service, with the option to buy and sell holiday.
• Participate in electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only).
• Creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in sustainable, modern offices across the UK.