PMO Analyst
About the role
In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next! At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.
This position is part of our Federal Solutions team. The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.
Responsibilities
- Support program and project planning, including onboarding, schedules, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resources, and performance measures.
- Track and report program and project status using appropriate project management tools and methodologies, ensuring early identification of delays, risks, and issues.
- Coordinate cross-functional milestone, dependency, and interdependency tracking across projects and functional areas.
- Maintain program tracking tools, SharePoint sites, document repositories, systems of record, and centralized PMO libraries, ensuring organization, accessibility, version control, and proper archiving.
- Conduct data-quality checks and implement corrective actions to maintain the accuracy and integrity of program information.
- Support project, program, and portfolio-level business process analysis by documenting current- and future-state processes, identifying gaps and inefficiencies, and recommending improvements.
- Translate complex business processes and program data into visual workflows, dashboards, and other tools that support analysis and decision-making.
- Monitor program budgets, burn rates, funding, financial performance, forecasts, and variances.
- Review and validate program financials, including ETC files, invoices, funding data, subcontractor charges, and vendor expenditures.
- Identify and communicate funding risks, budget overruns and underruns, and other financial issues before they affect program execution.
- Conduct requirements, business, economic, and feasibility analyses to support investment and program decisions.
- Develop and support business cases, analyses of alternatives, rough-order-of-magnitude estimates, cost comparisons, risk analyses, and economic analyses.
- Collect and analyze program data, documentation, and stakeholder input to develop solutions, recommendations, and actionable insights.
- Prepare weekly and monthly program status reports, dashboards, and briefings covering financial performance, schedule, staffing, milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, and overall program health.
- Standardize and automate templates, reporting processes, dashboards, document repositories, and lessons-learned logs to improve consistency and efficiency.
- Facilitate meetings and stakeholder engagements; document decisions, action items, risks, and follow-up activities.