Project Support Analyst

Salary £29,817 - £32,102 per annum plus excellent benefits

Location Walsall, West Midlands

The vacancy

Contract: Full Time, Fixed Term Contract, 37 hours per week

Closing Date: 18 August 2022

We have an exciting opportunity for an Project Support Analyst to join our Business Excellence team. In this role, you will provide support across the business change portfolio to assist with the effective delivery of projects.

Main job responsibilities:

You will support the Business Change Manager to mature and continuously improve project portfolio reporting, ensuring that it is fit for purpose and proportionate to the organisation.
A main responsibility would be to compile accurate and robust board reports from a variety of project stakeholders and sources. You would need to undertake analysis of programme board level information to drive effective decision making, such as updating portfolio dashboards.
A requirement of the role would be to maintain the portfolio management logs to a high quality (i.e., RAID and dependency logs). As well as, ensuring project benefits are captured, tracked and monitored through to realisation, reporting progress to Programme Boards
You will work with Business Change colleagues to support project delivery by advocating the consistent application of whg’s change management framework. This would include the monitoring and tracking of change control to ensure project metrics are within agreed tolerances.
Furthermore, you will raise and track central project orders via the finance system, performing financial reconciliation on a monthly basis to identify variances.

We're looking for someone who has:

Experience of working within a programme management office or have experience working with programme/project reporting.
APMP/Prince 2 Foundation (desirable)
Experience of Project Portfolio Management tools (desirable)
You will have a positive can-do approach and be self motivated and accountable with the ability to use your own initiative, manage own time and priorities whilst demonstrating a flexible and proactive approach.
You’ll have excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to challenge at all levels, and engage colleagues in project governance.

What’s in it for you?

In return, you will receive a competitive salary, 27 days annual leave (plus Christmas shut down), a defined benefit pension scheme, health cash plan, a range of shopping and leisure discounts.

We are output focused and flexible and believe in giving colleagues the right balance of autonomy and support to enable them to work to their full potential. Despite the high expectation for performance and delivery, we are committed to ensuring colleagues have a healthy work-life balance and able to work in agile ways which support them.

About us

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. The Strategy focuses on three key themes that help us support our colleagues to make a difference to our customers, the communities we serve and to themselves.

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, dedicated to doing the right thing and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable to be themselves.

We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer and ensure that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations while working with us. We want to make it clear that we welcome disabled applicants for all our roles. If in doubt look out for the Disability Confident logo.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.

For more information, read the full job description and visit www.whg.uk.com

About whg

We are one of the Midlands’ leading and most successful providers of good quality
homes.

Our values help us to maintain a culture that helps us achieve our commitment of
supporting customers to lead happy and fulfilled lives. We want all of our people to
uphold our ambition; demonstrating the belief, enthusiasm and energy to deliver on
it. We want our colleagues to feel empowered to take the lead and to think creatively
and be passionate about their work.

Our People Strategy presents a clear picture of how we will achieve our Corporate Plan aim, ‘Be an exceptional place to work that attracts, develops and retains talent’. Through the People Strategy we take every opportunity to embed our values to ensure that our colleagues give the best possible service to our customers, communities and each other.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. Equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) to us means colleagues living our values, being dedicated to doing the right thing, and exercising good judgement. This will encourage a culture where all can thrive, acknowledging that everyone is different; what matters to us is that everyone can come to work and feel comfortable being themselves.

We will ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible and we will interview applicants with a disability if they meet the essential criteria for a role. We will also support existing colleagues with a disability or long-term health condition enabling them to stay in work, making reasonable adjustments if necessary.

Our benefits

27 days annual leave

Flexible working

Health cash plan