ROLE SUMMARY:
We are seeking an experienced PMO Lead to support a key programme within the Data & Analytics (D&A) division, focused on migrating applications to Azure Cloud in the LSEG–Microsoft partnership. The role provides central oversight of financials, resources, governance, and delivery performance, ensuring cost control, data integrity, and consistent, executive‑ready reporting to enable informed decision‑making. Acting as a key interface across Engineering, Product, Finance, and Transformation, the PMO Lead combines strong financial and analytical capability with hands‑on governance to drive clarity and alignment across sophisticated deliveries
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:
Financial Management
- Coordinate end-to-end programme financial management, including planning, forecasting, and tracking of budgets, actuals, and forecasts
- Drive cost optimisation, analyse and handle variances, identify cost drivers and risks, and recommend corrective actions; support funding requests and cost/benefit modelling in line with Group standards
Resource Management
- Act as primary PMO contact to the application teams for resource planning and tracking, including allocations, extensions, ensuring alignment with delivery priorities
- Provide visibility of resource utilisation, capacity gaps, and optimisation opportunities to support delivery and cost efficiency decisions
Governance & Reporting
- Coordinate and facilitate programme governance forums, including materials, decisions and follow-ups
- Produce executive reporting across financials, resources, delivery and performance, providing forward-looking insight and narrative to support decision-making
- Maintain the programme roadmap and supervise overall delivery status (milestones, RAG)
- Identify delivery bottlenecks, dependencies and risks, driving resolution and continuously improving PMO processes, standards and ways of working
Data Quality & Controls
- Perform data validation and reconciliation across systems to ensure accurate, auditable reporting
- Own and maintain high-quality programme data in Clarity, including RAID, milestones, dependencies, benefits, and key delivery artefacts
- Support risk, issue, and dependency management across Clarity and Azure DevOps, ensuring data integrity, completeness, and audit readiness through structured controls and regular reviews
WHAT YOU'LL BRING:
- Strong proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Clarity. Experience with Workday, Oracle and Azure DevOps, with Power BI an advantage
- Proven expertise in financial planning and forecasting, with a strong track record in analysing sophisticated data sets and translating them into high‑quality management information and actionable insights
- Excellent interested party management, problem‑solving and conflict resolution skills, with the resilience and adaptability to operate sophisticated, fast‑paced environments and a proactive mindset to continuously learn and expand capability
- Curiosity and Knowledge of AI: We value team members who bring at least a foundational understanding of Artificial Intelligence—or a strong passion to grow in this space. At LSEG, we’re applying AI to streamline operations, enhance decision-making, and deliver better outcomes for our customers.
