Project Analyst (12 months)

Job description

Join us as a Project Analyst

• As a Project Analyst, you'll be supporting project managers to develop the design and delivery of the project scope
• You'll be leading small projects or components or larger projects, with a focus on removing impediments within a time, cost, quality and risk profile
• Hone your project expertise in a fast paced environment, and benefit from excellent exposure and development opportunities
• This vacacy is being offered for a period of 12 months

What you'll do

You'll be preparing and developing aspects of project plans, progress reporting, resource plans, and resource requirements. We'll look to you to provide status reports showing the progress against plans, making sure the project remains in scope and that all risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies are reported against the project plans.

You'll also be:

• Managing or assuring any project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies
• Managing key progress check points to be monitored and controlled by senior colleagues
• Tracking, reporting on and realising project benefits and supporting the creation of a financial business case
• Building and maintaining positive working relationships with stakeholders across multiple franchises and functions
• Making sure that activities are in place to adequately prepare the business and engage all the appropriate stakeholders effectively to enable change to be implemented smoothly
• Using relevant methodology and our portfolio, programme and project management standard process by understanding the development lifecycles and minimum mandatory requirements

The skills you'll need

We're looking for a capable communicator, who has the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to peers and management level colleagues.

You'll also bring:

• Experience of leading small projects or components of larger projects, under the supervision of the Project Manager
• Previous experience of support or leading on continuous improvement initiatives
• Detailed knowledge and experience in the project lifecycle
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Proven change management experience