Portfolio Analyst

Osborne Clarke; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm is seeking a Portfolio Analyst to join their Change & Transformation team. This role involves supporting the PMO with governance and methodologies, managing data for decision-making, and fostering collaboration across projects. The position offers a hybrid working model and is a 12-month fixed-term contract.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous benefits

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in a PMO team is essential.
• Strong analytical and client-centric mindset.
• Ability to synthesize complex information.

Responsibilities

• Support PMO Manager with MI/reporting for decision making.
• Develop frameworks for portfolio practices.
• Track project risks and issues.

Skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder engagement

Coordination skills

Financial management

Problem solving

Education

Project management qualifications (PMP, PMI, APM, PROSCI, P3O)

Job description

Join to apply for the Portfolio Analyst role at Osborne Clarke

Join to apply for the Portfolio Analyst role at Osborne Clarke

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.

Role profile
Osborne Clarke are seeking a Portfolio Analyst to join our growing Change & Transformation team in any of our UK offices (Bristol, London or Reading)
This position will play a crucial role in supporting the smooth running of the UK Firm's firm-wide PMO by embedding agreed portfolio, programme and project governance and methodologies, and managing the change portfolio's data to enable appropriate decision making.
This is a 12 month fixed term contract position offering hybrid working.
The role
The Portfolio Analyst will be a key member of the Change & Transformation team, promoting collaboration, team working, and innovation. This role will involve supporting the PMO Manager in providing key services in the UK firm's firm-wide PMO, including comprehensive, accurate and useful MI/reporting of portfolio and financial information to enable effective decision making by the Director of Change and the International Change Board (ICB).
Other Key Responsibilities Include

• Developing an effective working relationship with appropriate stakeholders to ensure accurate portfolio information is provided.
• Acting as a key point of contact for key portfolio practices advocating best practices in change, programme & project management and business analysis.
• Developing and maintaining frameworks for key portfolio practices and championing best practice for these across the function and wider business.
• Supporting the identification and tracking of key portfolio wide, project and programme risks and issues, ensuring that the mitigating actions are being identified and managed.
• Developing a detailed understanding of the projects/programmes within the portfolio to provide value add in terms of proactive identification of inter-dependencies, risks, issues etc.
• Financial management to ensure appropriately detailed business cases are created, with quantifiable benefits which can then be tracked throughout the lifetime of the project.
  

We are looking for

• Experience as a member of an enterprise/firm-wide PMO team.
• A strong analytical and client-centric mind-set, with the ability to synthesise complex information across a diverse, firm-wide portfolio of change (including strong Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills).
• Strong coordination skills, as developed in a project, programme or portfolio environment.
• A good understanding of different portfolio, programme and project methodologies.
• The ability to support stakeholders across the portfolio in the development of critical governance documents that aid the ICB's and Director of Change & Transformation decision making (e.g. status reporting, business case development).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to consolidate complex information into executive level reporting/recommendations.
• Existing project management or PMO qualifications (PMP, PMI, APM, PROSCI, P3O) desirable.
• An ability to demonstrate an understanding of the critical role that a firm-wide PMO and change function plays within an organisation.
• Financial management skills, covering budgeting and reporting and overall project financial control, to ensure investment value for the client. Experience in the construction of annual investment plans is an advantage.
• A logical and methodical approach to problem solving, with good attention to detail.
  

Salary And Benefits
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.
Our recruitment process
We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Dan Jones (Recruitment Manager) at [e-mail].
Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.
About Us
Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.
At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

• Services in India are provided by a relationship firm

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Law Practice

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Osborne Clarke by 2x

Sign in to set job alerts for “Portfolio Analyst” roles.

London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

Equity Research Analyst - International Consumer

London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

City Of London, England, United Kingdom £35,000.00-£50,000.00 5 days ago

Specialty Finance/Asset-backed Investment Analyst

Equity L/S Portfolio Manager - Consumer Equities

Greater London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Portfolio Manager - Emerging Markets - London or Dubai

London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago

London, England, United Kingdom 2 months ago

London, England, United Kingdom 3 days ago

London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Global Investment Research, Equity Research, Autos Analyst, Vice President, London

London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

Portfolio Manager/Engineer – Equity/ ETFs/Index Investing

London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Investment Analyst - Asset-Based Finance (ABF)/Private Credit

Equity Portfolio Manager - EU and/or US Region

London, England, United Kingdom 3 weeks ago

London, England, United Kingdom 4 days ago

Analyst - BCG Vantage, Principal Investors and Private Equity

London, England, United Kingdom 1 week ago

London, England, United Kingdom 2 days ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago

London, England, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago

London, England, United Kingdom 1 month ago

We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.