Role: Program Governance Analyst
Experience: 10years
Location: London
Work mode: 4Days per week for the first few months and then 3 days per week
Key Responsibilities
1. Program Governance & Control
· Maintain program governance frameworks, templates, and operating procedures.
· Manage governance artefacts including decision logs, change control records, RACI, action logs, and stage-gate materials.
· Ensure alignment with the bank’s internal risk, audit, and compliance requirements.
· Support program governance reviews and follow-up action management.
2. Program Reporting, Insights & Analytics
· Consolidate inputs from all workstreams to produce accurate weekly and monthly governance reports and executive-level packs.
· Maintain dashboards tracking milestones, progress, risks, dependencies, and schedule variance.
· Analyse the integrated plan in Microsoft Project to highlight delays, risks, and emerging trends.
· Conduct various daily and weekly update meetings to seek inputs required for governance reporting.
· Synthesize complex information into clear, concise insights for leadership.
3. Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
· Use KeyedIn to maintain the program RAID log as the single source of truth.
· Work closely with workstream leads to ensure risks, issues, and dependencies are raised, assessed, prioritized, and actively managed.
· Monitor cross-workstream dependencies and escalate any that threaten the critical path.
4. Program Planning & Change Control
· Support maintenance of the integrated program plan using Microsoft Project, incorporating updates from all delivery partners.
· Track milestones, critical path items, and schedule variance.
· Manage the change control process, including impact assessment and governance approvals.
· Ensure adherence to architectural checkpoints, design authority requirements, and SDLC controls.
5. Collaboration, Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
· Use Jira to support collaboration, workflow transparency, and progress tracking across workstreams.
· Prepare high-quality materials for Steering Committees, governance forums, and management meetings.
· Coordinate governance meetings, circulate minutes, track actions, and ensure timely closure.
· Build strong working relationships with senior leaders, business SMEs, technology teams, and external partners.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Skills
· 5–10 years’ experience in program governance, planning, or PMO within large transformation programs.
· Experience with large SAP S/4HANA or ERP programs.
· Proficiency in:
o Microsoft Project (planning)
o KeyedIn (RAID management)
o Jira (collaboration, agile workflows)
· Strong analytical, data handling, Excel, and PowerPoint skills; Power BI is an advantage.
· Banking or financial services experience preferred.
Core Competencies
· Highly structured, organised, and detail-oriented.
· Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
· Ability to convert complex inputs into clear insights.
· Proactive, solution-focused, and comfortable working in a multi-vendor environment.
Education & Certifications
· Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Finance, or related field.
· PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe, or other project/program management certifications preferred.
· SAP or ERP-related certifications beneficial.