PMO Analyst – Governance and Controls

Hiscox

PMO Analyst managing governance, reporting, and delivery oversight for change portfolios at Hiscox UK. Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure data accuracy and maintain governance standards.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeYork • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support governance, reporting, and delivery oversight across the UK change portfolio.
Ensure strong governance, accurate portfolio data, and consistent reporting.
Work closely with delivery leads and stakeholders to maintain governance standards and meet reporting cycles.
Ensure key data (e.g., risks, issues, dependencies, financials) is accurate and up to date.
Own and maintain governance collateral such as Terms of Reference, meeting inputs and outputs.
Own and manage the Lessons Learned process, ensuring that lessons are embedded in portfolio collateral, processes and ways of working.
Work with stakeholders to implement, own and maintain portfolio health assessment processes.
Assist Project Managers in following frameworks and best practices, agree pragmatic solutions for issues, or escalate as needed.
Support the continuous improvement of PMO processes, tools and templates.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience working as a PMO Analyst within a Portfolio Management Office supporting complex change portfolios, within the insurance or financial services sector.
Strong experience of portfolio-level governance and control processes, including working across multiple concurrent initiatives and stakeholders.
Demonstrable experience working in fast-paced or evolving environments, ideally where PMO processes and maturity are being developed or improved.
Strong understanding of project and change delivery lifecycles (e.g. Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches), with experience supporting delivery rather than leading projects.
Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to proactively engage, chase updates, and manage competing priorities across multiple teams.
Strong attention to detail, with a proven ability to maintain high data accuracy and integrity across portfolio reporting.
Experience working with portfolio data, reporting, and management information, including risks, issues, dependencies, financials and benefits tracking.
Strong analytical capability, with experience using tools such as: Excel (advanced), Power BI and Power Automate (or similar)
Ability to work independently and manage workload across multiple governance cycles and deadlines.
Clear and effective communication skills, with the ability to work with stakeholders at all levels.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employee benefits that take care of your mental and physical wellbeing
Career development opportunities through training and upskilling
Flexible working arrangements, with 2 to 3 days in the office per week

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Hard Skills & Tools

portfolio managementgovernance processesdata accuracyproject delivery lifecyclesrisk managementissue managementdependency managementfinancial trackingbenefits trackinganalytical capability

Soft Skills

stakeholder managementattention to detailindependent workcommunication skillsproactive engagementmanaging competing prioritiescontinuous improvementcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptability