Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Project Analyst is responsible for supporting and leading projects and workstreams across the Separation, Integration and Horizontal portfolios, supporting resource demand and prioritization, gathering requirements, engaging with stakeholders, creating and maintaining project plans, reporting on project status, tracking project risks and issues and ensuring good governance is applied to projects.
The Project Analyst will act as a roving support and problem solver to build and develop with a view to owning larger projects, act as a knowledge hub across various teams and can adopt different hats as required for different assignments.
This role sits within the wider Corporate Technology Inorganic Change Department.
What you’ll be doing
Project Delivery
* Support Project Manager(s) to engage with stakeholders of varying seniority to understand objectives and translate these into clearly defined business requirements.
* Engage with stakeholders using business requirements to define and agree innovative solutions developing an understanding of cost/benefit principles.
* Lead multiple project workstreams and report on the status, risks and issues to the project manager and relevant stakeholders.
* Identify and manage risks and issues working closely with identified owners to track, report and resolve in a timely manner.
* Support the management of demand across the M&A team, working with portfolio leads to accurately forecast future M&A activity.
* Support the Separation, Integration and Transformation portfolios.
* Adopt and embed best practice into all new projects through the alignment to the Change Framework.
* Ensure Programme and Project Managers are supported to adhere to all LSEG governance and internal processes.
* Ensure all in-flight projects are managed appropriately, with tasks, risks and issues managed and reviewed where necessary.
* Partner with cross-functional teams to understand and incorporate synergy opportunities and operational risks into business and financial plans.
Governance and Risk Management
* Own and maintain a log throughout the lifespan of the project to capture and manage project Risks Assumptions Issues and Dependencies working closely with identified owners to track report and resolve in a timely manner.
* Demonstrate understanding of risk mitigation techniques.
* Create governance packs and regular status reports documenting progress risks and issues with escalation in line with the agreed project governance.
* Document and maintain a record of key decisions taken and any associated project artefacts.
* Understand and adhere to the change framework gathering data to support application and monitoring.
* Manage project plans to the agreed project deadlines and schedules.
* Communicate and apply agreed project standards.
* Support resource forecasting to enable a robust recruitment process that incorporates Diversity and Inclusion.
* Establish and maintain strong and supportive relationships across all capabilities and business units to enable the swift and effective management of issues, risks and dependencies when escalated.
* Contribute to the overall development of the wider M&A department and take ownership of shared deliverables where identified.
* Develop a strong understanding of the LSEG Change Framework and the Groups PPM tool, Clarity.
Key Behaviours
* Continuously adopt a pragmatic, flexible, and responsive approach.
* Work with teams in multiple locations simultaneously.
* Apply judgement to assess the relative importance of assigned tasks and prioritises effectively.
* Use of creative solutions regarding use of tools and techniques to support delivery of objectives.
* Consistently delivers a high-quality service to stakeholders.
* Desire for continuous improvement demonstrated through professional curiosity.
You’ll bring (Candidate Profile / Key Skills)
* 2+ years of combined change management and project management/support experience.
* 1+ years’ experience managing and supporting decommissioning projects.
* Prince 2 (Project Management) or recognised BCS Foundation (Business Analysis) qualification.
* Some Clarity expertise is beneficial.
* Demonstratable experience of supporting and developing early careers process.
* Recent and direct experience in Corporate Development within a financial services organisation of a similar scale to LSEG.
* Strong understanding of the change management process / lifecycle and its practical application.
* Business Analyst or requirements gathering experience desirable.
* Experience of working with geographically distributed and culturally diverse workgroups.
* Ability to develop and leverage relationships/ influence key stakeholders both internally and externally.
* Capable of working independently and collaboratively as needed to deliver against Corporate Technology objectives.
* Demonstrated track record as a self-starter with the ability to multi-task and prioritise among competing demands; ability to wear multiple hats and be both a "thinker" and a "doer".
* Highly motivated / Strong work ethic – Proven commitment to adapt and champion time-sensitive/mission-critical processes operating in a global and matrix-type organization.
* Fast learner and able to link diverse sources of information to our business including ability to handle confidential information and materials with appropriate discretion.
* Good verbal and written communication skills - ability to communicate findings in a compelling manner.
* Some analytical capability, with ability to generate insights and understand problems.
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