Business Unit: Change & Delivery        
Salary Range: £30,400 - £38,000 per annum DOE    

Grab onto your Virgin Money adventure

Join Virgin Money as we transform our team into one that is ready to meet the challenges of the future, setting us up to support our ambition to disrupt the status quo and turn traditional banking on its head. We’re on the lookout for like-minded individuals and innovators to help drive our strategy forward. We’re also transforming how we work, offering our colleagues more choice, control and flexibility to live and work how they choose with A Life More Virgin.

Here’s what it means for YOU:

• 38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if part-time)​
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​
• A 35-hour working week
• 20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market leading Pension & Private Medical Insurance
• Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, Wellness & Health Assessments and Critical Illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK​ (where the role allows)

And you get these Red Hot Rewards from day one!

We’ve an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking PMO Analyst to support the delivery of strategic and BAU change in line with the overall objectives of the Change & Delivery function.

We deliver projects across a wide range of business areas:  whether delighting our customers with new digital features, through to satisfying our auditors and regulators with changes to data and reporting systems. We want to make people happier about money – and that idea starts with every single one of us here at Virgin Money. Feeling Insatiably Curious about your next adventure? You might have just found it.  

The role in a nutshell 

Our approach is to understand the opportunity and explore the art of the possible, to turn great ideas into great designs. Find fantastic solutions to not only meet the need but truly innovate and help to change the face of banking. Planning and mobilising for successful delivery are key so you can deliver the right outcome at the right time for the right price. 

You’ll be responsible for a wide range of activities across Change & Delivery, collaborate with internal colleagues and external partners so as you can imagine, no two days are the same.  You’ll have a unique opportunity to get involved in key initiatives within Programmes and Projects and work with senior stakeholders and a diverse range of teams.  So, if you’re a people person, passionate about ensuring the right customer outcomes and have an eye for detail, this could be the role for you!  

 Day to day you’ll be involved in: 

• Maintain high quality project documentation and provide high quality and accurate project reporting on a regular basis to project stakeholder groups, sponsors and senior management. 
• Ensure plans, key milestones, resources and tasks are being managed appropriately. 
• Finance and budget tracking and weekly reporting and ensure that the risks and issues of the overall project/programme portfolio are actively managed. 
• Support and on occasion chair weekly and monthly meetings within the Programme or Project, ensuring all formal governance routines are adhered to. Ensure effective communication with all stakeholders, specifically senior managers and external partners regarding the delivery status of the change portfolio. 
• Work in partnership with the Programmes & delivery teams, offering guidance to ensure the programmes are adhering to Change Methodology Policy Standards (CMPS) within the Governance Framework. 
• Work with colleagues in the Central PMO function to ensure project reporting is accurate and adheres to wider group and external partner Programme and Project Management Frameworks. 
• Collaborate with the wider PMO and Change Community in the ongoing development, roll out and embedding of continuous improvement and best practise into programme delivery. 

We need you to have: 

• Change management experience, using recognised methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, SDM, Prince 2 etc.) and driving improvements 
• A head for numbers and experience of budget management as you’ll help keep us on track with our costs and approvals 
• A natural ability to collaborate and work with stakeholders at all levels across the business 
• Confidence to challenge and influence to get the best outcome 
• The ability to communicate clearly in a straight up, succinct way keeping the complex simple 
• Insatiable curiosity so you can truly under requirements and the ask 
• The ability to quickly understand complex systems and processes 

The following would be brilliant...but not essential 

• Experience of working in the Financial Services Industry 
• Good understanding of the financial sector - sound business acumen and judgment 
• A collaborative and positive approach 
• Strong planning, problem solving skills 

Inclusion at Virgin Money

Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do here at Virgin Money. It’s good for you, it’s good for us and it’s amazing for our customers. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on your diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to be the best we can possibly be. Got any questions about this or need some support with your application? We’d love to hear from you so get in touch with our careers team at careers@virginmoney.com.

Now the legal bit…
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it) but we will need to you to confirm you have the Right to Work in the UK.

If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.