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About the Role

The PMO Governance Analyst ensures all projects align with the organization’s PMO governance and control framework. This role acts as a second line of defense for project delivery, enforcing standards, providing independent assurance, and delivering portfolio-level insight for early intervention on at-risk projects. The analyst partners with Project Managers, operating independently to challenge, escalate, and enforce compliance, providing leadership with timely, accurate visibility of delivery health, risks, and emerging portfolio themes. This is a trusted source of control, insight, and early warning, not a support function.

Responsibilities

Enforce adherence to the PMO governance framework, ensuring Project Managers comply with methodologies, controls, documentation standards, and reporting requirements.
Perform regular independent governance reviews, stage-gate checks, and assurance activities across the project lifecycle.
Validate the quality, completeness, and approval status of core project artefacts (business cases, plans, RAID logs, budgets, benefits).
Capture lessons learned and assurance findings to provide thematic insights and remediation recommendations.
Identify governance breaches, control weaknesses, and delivery risks, initiating corrective action or escalation per PMO thresholds.
Act as the authoritative point of interpretation for PMO standards, controls, and escalation pathways.
Support consistent application of PMO tools, templates, and processes, ensuring portfolio standardization.
Produce portfolio-level governance reporting and dashboards for PMO leadership, steering committees, and senior management.
Monitor governance KPIs including stage-gate compliance, reporting quality, risk ageing, dependency management, and escalation timeliness.
Identify cross-project themes, systemic risks, and recurring control issues, providing analysis and intervention recommendations.
Act as an early-warning mechanism, flagging projects trending towards client escalation, delivery failure, or control breakdown.
Ensure governance reporting is accurate, timely, and evidence-based to support decision-making.
Support the evolution of the PMO governance framework, ensuring it remains fit for purpose and aligned to organizational priorities.
Contribute to defining and maintaining minimum mandatory standards for project controls, artefacts, and reporting.
Support change initiatives that strengthen PMO control, consistency, and effectiveness.
Build effective working relationships with Project Managers while maintaining independent governance authority.
Provide clear, constructive challenge to Project Managers when standards are not met.
Coach Project Managers on governance expectations, reinforcing accountability for delivery outcomes.
Engage with senior stakeholders to ensure governance risks and portfolio insights are understood and acted upon.

Requirements

Degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
Around 4 years experience in a PMO, project governance, assurance, or control role within a complex, multi-project environment.
Strong understanding of project management frameworks (PRINCE2, APM, Agile) and governance best practice.
Proven experience conducting governance reviews, assurance activities, or quality control.
Detailed understanding of project costs and revenue.
Ability to analyse data, identify patterns, and translate findings into actionable insight.
Confident communicator, comfortable challenging delivery teams constructively.
Highly organised, able to manage multiple assurance and reporting activities in parallel.
Strong proficiency in PMO and reporting tools (Excel, PowerPoint, project systems such as MS Project, Smartsheet, or equivalent).
Comfortable operating as a control and assurance function, not just a support role.
Objective, analytical, and confident in enforcing standards.
Resilient and credible when challenging non-compliance.
Proactive in identifying risks and improvement opportunities.
Committed to transparency, consistency, and continuous improvement.
A proactive self-starter with strong problem solving skills, who takes ownership and goes the extra mile to deliver high quality outcomes.

Skills

Project Management
Business Administration
PMO
Project governance
Assurance
Control
PRINCE2
APM
Agile
Governance best practice
Governance reviews
Quality control
Project cost and revenue understanding
Data analysis
Pattern identification
Actionable insight translation
Communication
Organizational skills
PMO tools
Reporting tools
Excel
PowerPoint
MS Project
Smartsheet
Objectivity
Analytical thinking
Standard enforcement
Resilience
Credibility
Risk identification
Improvement opportunity identification
Transparency
Consistency
Continuous improvement
Self-starting
Problem solving
Ownership
High quality outcome delivery

Experience Level

Around 4 years experience

Education Level

Degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline

About the Company

Broadridge fosters a culture empowering associates to accomplish more.
Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR) is a global technology leader with trusted expertise and transformative technology, helping clients and the financial services industry operate, innovate, and grow.
The company powers investing, governance, and communications for clients, driving operational resiliency, elevating business performance, and transforming investor experiences.
Broadridge's technology and operations platforms process over 7 billion communications annually and underpin daily average trading of over $15 trillion in equities, fixed income, and other securities globally.
A certified Great Place to Work®, Broadridge is part of the S&P 500® Index, employing over 15,000 associates in 21 countries.
Broadridge is committed to creating an engaging, collaborative, inclusive, and healthy environment that promotes flexibility and accountability.
The company values unique associate strengths, believing they allow individuals to perform at their best, leading to success.
Professional development opportunities are a core part of Broadridge's culture, including formal classes, training programs, and events.
Development programs are redesigned for 100% virtual delivery to enable learning in a hybrid working model.
Associates have access to over 8,500 online courses covering business, leadership, technical, and function-specific topics through the LinkedIn Learning program.

Equal Opportunity

Broadridge is dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment.
The company is committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work.
Broadridge believes associates perform best when feeling safe, understood, and valued.
The company diligently works to ensure it recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective.