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Project Portfolio Analyst – Change Delivery London 2 days per week, the rest remote working £60,000.00 per annum + benefits Our client, a financial regulatory body, requires a Project Portfolio Analyst to join their thriving team in London.

Project Portfolio Analyst – Change Delivery

London 2 days per week, the rest remote working

£60,000.00 per annum + benefits

Our client, a financial regulatory body, requires a Project Portfolio Analyst to join their thriving team in London.

This role sits within the Portfolio Management Unit (PMU). The PMU manages the portfolio of changes, projects, and programmes that the business needs to deliver to meet its strategic business objectives, mature its capabilities and enable it to achieve real outcomes for consumers and markets.

The Project Portfolio Analyst will assist the business in building, maintaining, managing and governing its portfolio of change.

You will be support in various aspects of Portfolio Management including:

• Identifying, creating and documenting a single view of the new change demand initiatives across the business
• Setting up and managing proposals for the pipeline of new changes, including engaging with delivery staff and stakeholders to understand planning, activity, benefits, risks and resource considerations.
• Undertaking or facilitating capacity assessments to assist planning and prioritisation.
• Recording and maintaining information in the business’ planning management tools
• Ensuring that changes are governed in line with the business’ Change Delivery Handbook, including Stage Gate reviews.
• Where appropriate, contributing to the design and implementation of updated and improved change and project management processes, and requirements for tooling.
• Producing and contributing to MI and other reporting for both delivery and management stakeholders, including benefits and outcomes tracking.

This will help ensure that the business meets its regulatory responsibilities and delivers on its strategic objectives within time, cost and resource parameters.

You will:

• Be a self-starter who flexes approach and style to different tasks, situations and audiences.
• Be articulate with strong written and presentation skills.
• Have the ability to work to tight deadlines when under pressure.
• Have experience of using Clarizen
• Be a pragmatic thinker with the ability to drive continuous improvement
• Have the ability to build and maintain strong and credible relationships with key stakeholders
• Have the ability to grasp business risks and issues and assess the impact on the wider change portfolio
• Be a strong communicator with effective negotiating skills, able to work effectively with key stakeholders and pay attention to detail
• Be proficient in the use of MS Office tool (Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint)
• Have over 3 years’ experience working in a Business Analyst or Portfolio Management role, educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Have experience in working in portfolio and programme delivery with appropriate course certification (P3M / MSP / PRINCE2 / APM).
• Have coverage across some key processes (including demand management and prioritisation, planning and dependency management, governance, reporting, risk and issue management, supplier performance, benefits management and delivery assurance, MI reporting).
• Be a competent user of MS Suite.
• Have Financial Services experience.

Suitable candidates should submit their CV in the first instance.