Financial Crime Portfolio Prioritisation Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Holiday 30 days + bank holidays

Wellbeing programs

Parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Portfolio Prioritisation Manager to lead intake, prioritisation, and governance across a diverse portfolio of financial crime initiatives. You will maintain an integrated roadmap, coordinate capacity planning, and provide executive reporting to ensure delivery aligns with strategic objectives.

The role requires strong PMO and portfolio management experience within a regulated environment, with proficiency in Power BI and Excel for insight-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• PMO or portfolio governance experience within a complex change environment.
• Prioritisation and portfolio planning experience across multiple initiatives.
• Clear governance materials and executive reporting to support decisions.
• Experience managing portfolio risks, issues and dependencies across initiatives.
• Ability to interpret data and provide actionable insights for prioritisation.
• Strong stakeholder engagement in regulated environments.
• Knowledge of Financial Crime, Fraud, AML, or related risk domains.
• Experience in benefits realisation and value tracking across a portfolio.
• Understanding of change governance and investment processes in large organisations.
• Proficiency turning portfolio data into management insight (Power BI/Excel).
• Relevant portfolio, programme or project management development or qualifications (P3O/MSP/PRINCE2/APM).

Responsibilities

• Own intake and triage processes for new demand.
• Lead prioritisation assessments across requests and opportunities.
• Maintain an integrated roadmap of live and future initiatives.
• Coordinate capacity planning and resource allocation.
• Lead portfolio governance, reporting cycles and executive updates.
• Oversee risks, issues, dependencies and delivery across the portfolio.
• Produce dashboards and executive insight to support decisions.
• Support leadership with governance packs and decision tracking.
• Manage portfolio financials and realised value reporting.
• Maintain governance standards and templates for audit-ready environment.
• Facilitate senior stakeholder discussions for strategic alignment.
• Drive continuous improvement of portfolio management practices.

Skills

PMO experience

Prioritisation

Governance reporting

Portfolio risks

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Regulated environment

Benefits tracking

Change governance

Portfolio insight

Portfolio development

Education

P3O/MSP/PRINCE2/APM

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

End Date Friday 20 November 2026 Salary Range £67,023 - £74,470 We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary . Job Description JOB TITLE: Portfolio Prioritisation Manager SALARY: £67,023 - £74,470 LOCATION(S): Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester or Edinburgh HOURS: Full time – 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, in the office. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What you’ll be doing:

Consumer Financial Crime Optimisation & Strategy is responsible for identifying, prioritising and delivering change that strengthens financial crime controls, improves colleague and customer outcomes, and ensures investment is focused on the areas of greatest value and risk reduction. We’re hiring a Portfolio & Prioritisation Manager to play a pivotal role in ensuring that demand, investment and delivery activity are governed consistently across the Consumer Financial Crime portfolio. Acting as the front door for incoming change requests and optimisation opportunities, you’ll provide portfolio leadership, planning and governance oversight across a diverse range of strategic, regulatory, operational and technology-enabled initiatives. You’ll maintain the integrated portfolio roadmap, coordinate capacity planning and resource allocation, support prioritisation decisions and provide executive reporting that enables informed decision-making. Working closely with senior stakeholders, delivery leads and operational teams, you’ll help ensure the right work is delivered at the right time and that change activity remains aligned to strategic objectives, operational priorities and available capacity.

• Manage portfolio intake and triage processes, ensuring new demand is assessed, governed and routed appropriately.
• Lead prioritisation assessments across incoming change requests, optimisation opportunities and investment proposals.
• Maintain a single integrated roadmap covering live initiatives, pipeline activity and future opportunities.
• Coordinate portfolio capacity planning, workforce forecasting and resource allocation.
• Lead portfolio governance, reporting cycles and executive updates.
• Maintain oversight of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and delivery achievements across the portfolio.
• Produce portfolio dashboards, management information and executive insight to support decision-making.
• Support senior leadership forums through high-quality governance packs, reporting and decision tracking.
• Manage portfolio financials, benefits tracking and realised value reporting.
• Maintain governance standards, delivery frameworks, templates and controls that support a transparent and audit-ready environment.
• Facilitate prioritisation discussions with senior stakeholders, ensuring strategic alignment and appropriate challenge.
• Support continuous improvement of portfolio management, governance and planning approaches across the function.

Why join us?

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

This is a place for you: Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

What we’re looking for?

• Portfolio & governance experience
  • Strong experience within PMO, portfolio management or programme governance, ideally within a complex change or transformation environment.
• Prioritisation & portfolio planning
  • Experience managing demand, prioritisation and portfolio planning, including resource and capacity considerations across contending initiatives.
• Governance & executive insight
  • Experience producing clear portfolio reporting, MI and governance materials that enable senior leaders to make informed decisions.
• Portfolio control & dependencies
  • Strong experience managing portfolio risks, issues, dependencies and delivery considerations across multiple initiatives.
• Analysis & decision support
  • Able to interpret data, identify challenges and opportunities, and provide clear insight and constructive challenge to support prioritisation and decision‑making.
• Stakeholder & organisational effectiveness
  • Strong relationship, communication and organisational skills, with experience working collaboratively with senior stakeholders and balancing multiple priorities in a regulated environment.
• Financial Crime or Risk knowledge
  • Experience within Financial Crime, Fraud, AML, Economic Crime, Risk or another regulated operational environment.
• Benefits & value management
  • Experience supporting benefits realisation, value tracking, optimisation or continuous improvement across a portfolio.
• Change governance & investment
  • Knowledge of change governance, investment processes and stage‑gate delivery approaches within complex organisations.
• Data & portfolio insight
  • Experience using tools such as Power BI and Excel to turn portfolio data into accessible management insight and reporting.
• Professional change or portfolio development
  • Relevant portfolio, programme or project management development or qualifications, such as P3O, MSP, PRINCE2 or APM.
• We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. We recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We’re focused on creating a values‑led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference. With 320 years under our belt, we’re used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you’ll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.