About Lab49

Lab49 is an award-winning specialist consultancy that creates bespoke technology solutions and products for the world's leading financial institutions. Founded in 2002, Lab49 combines strategy, design, and technology expertise to deliver transformative outcomes for investment banks, asset managers, exchanges, and other capital markets participants.

Role Overview

Lab49 is seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented PMO Analyst to support the successful delivery of strategic technology and transformation initiatives. The PMO Analyst will play a key role in driving project governance, integrated planning, reporting, risk management, resource coordination, and delivery controls across complex programs.

This role requires strong stakeholder management, analytical skills, and the ability to provide transparency into project performance, dependencies, risks, and milestones while supporting delivery teams and leadership.

“Success in this role means building a PMO that improves delivery outcomes, not simply administering governance activities”

Key Responsibilities

PMO Capability Building and Operating Model

Help design, establish, and mature a scalable PMO operating model covering governance, integrated planning, reporting, financial controls, resource management, risk management, and delivery assurance.

Establish common delivery metrics and dashboards that give leadership a clear view of progress, risks, dependencies, capacity, quality, and financial performance.

Create reusable playbooks for discovery, mobilization, execution, release readiness, stabilization, and program closure.

End-to-End Delivery Management

Support delivery from initial discovery and mobilization through planning, execution, release, stabilization, and closure.

Maintain an end-to-end view across business, product, design, architecture, engineering, quality engineering, cybersecurity, compliance, and operations.

Identify sequencing issues, delivery gaps, conflicting priorities, and cross-team dependencies before they affect critical milestones.

Drive ownership of actions and decisions, ensuring unresolved items are escalated with clear impact assessments and recommended options.

Conduct delivery health checks, provide an independent evidence-based view of status, and support recovery planning for at-risk workstreams.

Coordinate distributed teams and stakeholders across regions, functions, and partner organizations.

AI-Enabled Delivery and PMO

Use approved AI capabilities to improve the speed and quality of planning, reporting, meeting synthesis, dependency analysis, knowledge retrieval, and management communications.

Ensure AI use complies with firm’s confidentiality, data-protection, information-security, and responsible-use requirements.

Identify opportunities to automate repetitive PMO activities such as status consolidation, action tracking, document classification, and governance-pack preparation.

Governance and Executive Communication

Prepare concise executive updates that clearly distinguish progress, risks, decisions required, implications, and recommended actions.

Maintain accurate records of decisions, commitments, actions, and escalations.

Prepare and maintain governance materials, status reports, steering committee packs, and executive dashboards.

Monitor project progress against agreed milestones and provide delivery traceability and reporting.

Integrated Planning, Risks, and Dependencies

Own or coordinate integrated planning across multiple workstreams and delivery organizations.

Establish dependency-management practices that identify upstream and downstream impacts across product, technology, operations, and third parties.

Facilitate RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) management and ensure timely escalation of delivery risks and blockers.

Financial, Commercial, and Resource Management

Support program budgeting, forecasting, actuals tracking, and variance analysis.

Maintain visibility into team capacity, onboarding, allocation, role requirements, and forward demand.