Sr. PMO Analyst

Job Family

Program and Project management

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Facilitate the effective planning and forecasting of enterprise-wide project portfolios by maximizing the use of project planning tools.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the development, maintenance and analysis of reporting at the portfolio and project level, including exception reporting of portfolio issues.

• Work closely with the PMO leadership team, portfolio and project managers to ensure that project portfolio information is maintained and available for planning and forecasting.

• Support the time capture function within the planning tool.

• Develop and maintain the TA PMO project management toolsets and assist users to overcome challenges within work requests or projects.

• Develop, maintain and analyze capacity reporting of portfolio managers and PMO leadership to help identify resourcing opportunities and constraints.

• Provide project management tool training to all users.

• Support TA PMO best practices by seeking opportunities to make efficiencies and improvements for recommendations to the PMO leadership team.

Qualifications

• Four years of related work experience

• Extensive knowledge of project management methodologies, principles and project management tools.

• Advanced proficiency using MS office project (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Analytical and organizational skills in order to plan