Senior PMO Analyst

Job title: Senior PMO Analyst

Location: Madison, Alabama-USA

Req ID: 3481

Workplace Type: Remote

Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Senior PMO Analyst to join our Public Safety delivery organization. This role will serve as a key partner to PMO leadership, providing portfolio analytics, forecasting, reporting, and decision-support capabilities that enable effective management of a growing project portfolio.

As our PMO continues to expand, executive reporting and forecasting requirements have become increasingly sophisticated and critical to business decision-making. The PMO Analyst will play a pivotal role in providing visibility into delivery performance, resource capacity, revenue forecasts, portfolio health, and emerging risks. Through insightful analysis, process improvement, and reporting automation, this position will help leadership make faster, data-driven decisions while strengthening overall portfolio governance.

This is a strategic, non-billable role focused on enabling delivery excellence across the organization.

Executive Reporting & Decision Support

• Develop and maintain executive-level dashboards, reports, and presentations that provide visibility into portfolio performance.
• Produce timely, accurate, and actionable reporting for PMO and business leadership.
• Analyze portfolio data and communicate key insights, trends, risks, and recommendations.
• Support executive decision-making through scenario analysis and forecasting.

Forecasting & Planning

• Monitor and maintain detailed understanding of delivery revenue forecasts across the project portfolio, including risks and potential for financial upside.
• Support resource planning and headcount forecasting to meet anticipated delivery demand.
• Perform capacity analysis to identify current and future resourcing constraints.
• Monitor demand forecasts and align projected workload with available delivery capacity.
• Conduct trend analysis to identify patterns affecting project delivery, resourcing, and revenue performance.
• Support portfolio planning cycles through data collection, analysis, and forecasting models.

Portfolio Analytics & Insights

• Monitor and report on overall portfolio health and key performance indicators.
• Analyze delivery performance across projects, programs, and delivery teams.
• Identify emerging risks and perform risk trend analysis to support proactive management actions.
• Track forecast-to-actual performance and recommend improvements to forecasting accuracy.
• Provide insights into strategic opportunities, constraints, and areas requiring leadership attention.

Process Improvement & Automation

• Improve forecasting, reporting, and analytics processes through standardization and automation.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual reporting effort and increase data quality.
• Develop and maintain scalable reporting tools, templates, dashboards, and analytical models.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives within the PMO.

Education / Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Data Analytics, Project Management, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in PMO, project controls, portfolio management, business analytics, financial analysis, or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills with the ability to transform complex data into actionable insights.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including forecasting, financial modeling, and data analysis.
• Experience developing dashboards and reports using Power BI or similar business intelligence platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present insights to executive audiences.
• High attention to detail and demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred

• Experience supporting software delivery, professional services, or technology implementation organizations.
• Knowledge of project portfolio management concepts, project governance, and resource planning.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies.
• Experience working with ERP, CRM and resource management tools.

About Octave

Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle - Design, Build, Operate and Protect - where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.

Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.

Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Why work for Octave?

All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.

Everyone is welcome

At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.

Respect is the cornerstone of how we operate, so speak up and be yourself. You're valued here.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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