About Goodbody

Goodbody is a leading financial services firm, committed to serving and growing client relationships for 150 years. We are a full service, investment-led business offering wealth management, asset management, investment banking and private equity services. Our staff of over 400 work in offices across Dublin, London, Cork and Galway. We’re proud to offer prospective employees a professional, collegial work environment that encourages diversity of thought and background. Our reputation in the Irish market for putting customers first is as consistent as the company’s long-standing commitment to giving back to the communities that we work in.

About the PMO Analyst Role:

The PMO Analyst provides structured support to the Business Change PMO, helping to ensure that change activity across Goodbody is well governed, accurately reported, and consistently tracked. The role supports existing PMO capability by assisting with governance administration, portfolio reporting, demand tracking, and control activities, enabling the PMO to operate effectively and ensuring decision making forums are supplied with reliable information.

PMO Analyst Accountabilities include:

Governance, Portfolio & Change Oversight Support

• Support the coordination and administration of PMO governance forums, including the Change Leadership Committee, Executive Change Council, and Programme/Project Steering Committees.

• Assist with the preparation of agendas, papers, and supporting materials.

• Capture and maintain meeting minutes, decisions, actions, risks, issues, and dependencies.

• Support the maintenance of the enterprise change pipeline, including programme/project registers and tracking of small change, operational, and incident driven requests.

• Monitor progress across actions, milestones, and dependencies, highlighting overdue or higher risk items to the PMO Lead where appropriate.

Reporting, Risk & Data Management

• Collect, consolidate, and maintain data inputs from delivery teams to support:

o Status reporting

o RAID and dependency tracking

o Benefits tracking

• Produce draft reports, dashboards, and portfolio views using agreed PMO templates.

• Perform basic data quality checks to ensure information is accurate, complete, and timely, flagging gaps or inconsistencies for follow up.

• Assist in preparing portfolio, risk, and issue summaries for governance and decision-making forums.

PMO Standards, Tools & Knowledge Support

• Support the maintenance and consistent use of PMO governance artefacts, including templates, reporting standards, and core process documentation.

• Maintain accurate change and portfolio records in agreed tools (e.g. Azure DevOps), including intake, backlog, and prioritisation views.

• Support document version control and structured storage of PMO artefacts.

• Assist with the collation of lessons learned, closure documentation, and governance evidence to support internal reviews, audit requests, and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

Third level education required; holding relevant qualifications from the IOB or an equivalent qualification is desirable.
1–3 years’ experience in a PMO, project support, or reporting role
Strong organisational and administrative skills
High attention to detail
Comfortable working with structured trackers and reporting templates
Good Excel skills (tracking, pivots, basic reporting)
Ability to work across multiple initiatives simultaneously

Desirable

Exposure to governance forums or programme reporting
Familiarity with Azure DevOps or similar tracking tools
Experience in Financial Services or regulated environments

Ideal Characteristics

The ideal candidate is a detail‑focused PMO or project support professional with strong organisational and administrative skills, comfortable managing multiple initiatives using structured trackers and reporting templates, with solid Excel capability, clear communication skills, and a dependable, process‑oriented approach to supporting governance, reporting, and delivery activities in a regulated or structured change environment.

Employee Value Proposition

Goodbody is focused on helping our employees thrive, and we do this by bringing to life our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) ‘Together we prosper’. Our firm’s purpose is to create long-term prosperity, and we cannot execute on our purpose without the right talent at Goodbody. To make sure we attract and retain industry-leading, passionate and inspiring talent, we’ve built a vibrant culture based on inclusion, opportunities to grow and a commitment to ‘do the right thing’, one of our core values. We live this by offering:

Regular employee events through our universal inclusion programme fostering a sense of belonging and celebrating differences. And an ‘always on’ approach to social, financial, mental and physical wellbeing.
A benefits package that includes a generous pension scheme, educational sponsorship and health insurance, along with a hybrid working model to promote better work/life balance
Opportunities to give back through sustainability initiatives, volunteering and on-site and online meetings with our charity partners

Goodbody is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace which values and benefits from the diversity of our workforce. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please include a note in your application or email us directly at HR@Goodbody.ie

Please read the Goodbody Recruitment Privacy Notice. By submitting your personal data to us, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Notice and agree to the use of your personal data in line with this. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Appointment to this role is subject to the candidate's eligibility to work in Ireland. Where agency assistance is required, our Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Goodbody by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this role. Goodbody operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the HR team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.

Goodbody Stockbrokers UC, trading as Goodbody, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. In the UK, Goodbody is also subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority. Goodbody is a member of Euronext Dublin and the London Stock Exchange. Goodbody is a member of the group of companies headed by AIB Group plc.

For AIB Employees: Please note there are specific controls in place for transfers between AIB and Goodbody. Goodbody is part of AIB Group and you must inform your AIB line manager and HR BP in advance of making an application to Goodbody.

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