Mid/Senior IT Project Analyst

IT Project Analyst | Mid/Senior

We are looking for an IT Project Analyst to work on project planning, monitoring, and control, contributing to delivery organization, metrics analysis, and results predictability.

The person will be responsible for consolidating information from different teams, tracking schedules, costs, risks, and pending items, as well as turning data into clear analyses that support decision-making.

Work and hiring model

• Format: On-site in Curitiba/PR
• Hiring: corporate contractor (PJ) or cooperative member.
• Initial period: 6 months, with possibility of extension for an indefinite period.

Main responsibilities

• Support project planning by structuring activities, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and owners.
• Prepare, update, and track schedules, identifying delays, dependencies, and impacts on deliveries.
• Consolidate and analyze planned and actual cost information.
• Apply earned value management, tracking indicators such as SPI and CPI.
• Prepare reports, dashboards, and status reports for project monitoring.
• Monitor risks, issues, impediments, and action plans, tracking owners and deadlines.
• Support scope change control and impact analysis on schedule, cost, and deliverables.
• Organize meetings, record decisions, and follow up on action items.
• Track vendor deliverables and flag possible deviations.
• Keep documentation and controls up to date, also supporting project closure.
• Use automation and generative AI tools to support project environment activities, validating the generated information.

Requirements

• Experience with IT project analysis, planning, or monitoring.
• Knowledge of project management fundamentals based on PMBOK.
• Experience preparing and updating schedules and critical path analysis.
• Experience with cost, schedule, and delivery progress control.
• Knowledge of earned value management, including Planned Value, Earned Value, Actual Cost, SPI, and CPI.
• Experience tracking risks, issues, scope changes, and action plans.
• Knowledge of project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, Cloud ALM, or similar.
• Proficiency in spreadsheets for data consolidation and analysis.
• Experience preparing reports, metrics, and status reports.
• Good communication skills and ease of interaction with technical teams, business areas, and vendors.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of agile methodologies, Scrum, and Kanban.
• Experience with ERP projects, especially SAP.
• Experience with automation and creating interactive dashboards.
• Use of generative AI applied to project management.
• Certifications or courses in project management and data analysis.

Education

Bachelor's degree in progress or completed in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Systems, IT Management, or related fields.

If you have experience with IT project planning and control and enjoy turning data into information that supports decisions, we'd love to meet you!