Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people s lives.
Job Title: PMO Financial Analyst
Location: Mettawa, IL 60045
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Role Overview
Summary
- The Analyst - Program PMO provides integrated project management office and financial analysis support for complex programs.
- The role combines program governance, delivery reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cost control, resource analysis, and executive decision support. Working closely with program managers, finance partners, workstream leads, procurement, and business stakeholders, the analyst ensures that delivery and financial information is accurate, timely, consistent, and actionable.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce portfolio dashboards, executive summaries, variance analyses, and decision materials for PMO governance forums.
- Monitor program scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, actions, decisions, and change requests.
- Partner with program managers and finance teams to validate estimates, resource plans, funding needs, milestones, and financial assumptions.
- Coordinate governance meetings, prepare agendas and materials, capture decisions, and track actions through closure.
- Prepare and consolidate annual budgets, rolling forecasts, cost-to-complete estimates, and long-range financial plans.
- Track actual spending, commitments, purchase orders, accruals, resource costs, and financial benefits against approved plans.
- Investigate delivery and financial variances, identify root causes, and recommend corrective actions or forecast adjustments.
- Support business cases, funding requests, scenario analysis, prioritization, and financial impact assessments.
- Maintain PMO and finance standards, templates, controls, assumptions, document repositories, and audit-ready records.
- Coordinate month-end and quarter-end activities, including accruals, reconciliations, forecast submissions, and management reporting.
- Analyze resource capacity, demand, utilization, cost trends, and delivery performance to identify risks and opportunities.
- Support stage-gate reviews, audits, lessons learned, and continuous improvement of PMO financial and governance processes.
- Provide concise, data-driven recommendations to program and executive leadership.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, project management, information systems, or a related field.
- Experience supporting a PMO, program finance team, project controls function, or complex cross-functional programs.
- Working knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, accruals, financial reporting, and project governance.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with experience using project, portfolio, financial, or enterprise resource planning systems.
- Ability to consolidate complex project and financial data, identify trends, and translate findings into clear management insights.
- Strong organization, attention to detail, judgment, communication, and ability to manage competing deadlines.
Preferred
- Experience supporting enterprise transformation, technology, or other large-scale programs.
- Experience with Power BI, Jira, Smartsheet, or similar tools.
- Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, hybrid delivery, stage-gate governance, portfolio management, and financial control practices.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Mettawa, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $45–$50 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
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