Portfolio Analyst

National Grid; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

National Grid seeks a Portfolio Analyst in Warwick to analyze delivery work plans, report risks, and facilitate stakeholder interactions. The position requires strong data analysis skills, proficiency in MS Office and PowerBI, and excellent communication abilities. Join a leading energy company contributing to a sustainable energy future.

Benefits

Annual Performance Based Bonus

26 days annual leave plus statutory days

Contributory pension scheme

Financial support for professional development

Flexible benefits including share incentive plan

Family care benefits

Health and fitness app access

Qualifications

• Experience using PowerBI and DAX preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage relationships across teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze delivery work plans and report on risks to the portfolio.
• Create engineering justification reports and automate reporting.
• Provide insights for decision-making and performance tracking.

Skills

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Communication

MS Office applications

PowerBI

Job description

View more categories View less categories Discipline Electrical Sector Power Job Type Business & Non-Engineering

About the role

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is at the heart of energy in the UK. The electricity we provide gets the nation to work, powers schools and brings energy to life. Our energy network connects the nation, so it’s essential that it’s continually evolving, advancing, and improving.

As Portfolio Analyst you’ll analyse NGET’s delivery work plan, capturing information and reporting on risks and impacts to the portfolio of assets in the current and subsequent regulatory periods. Analysing and highlighting the risks to the overall portfolio delivery, you’ll create an engineering justification report, working with stakeholders to mitigate these risks and deliver commitments.

Reporting on cost, changes and programme performance against all Portfolios, you’ll provide relevant insight to stakeholders to enable effective decision making, to ensure that NGET can demonstrate change control and strong reasoning for changes to the plan both to internal and external stakeholders.

You will create the reporting data and provide relevant narrative and presentations on performance against regulatory allowances and targets, ensuring you drive improvements across processes and change control using change information gathered.

In addition, you will support and develop automated reports using PowerBi, Tableau, MS Excel, creating and developing business processes, working with the business.

You’ll be based out of our offices in Warwick for 2 days per week, and this can be combined with hybrid working from home.

What you'll need

With excellent skills in MS Office applications, experience using PowerBI and DAX would be an advantage. You’ll be an analytical person, with experience of data analysis and business reporting and be able to present information in a concise manner.

You’ll have experience working across discipline teams and of managing stakeholder relationships, coupled with presentation skills and being able to engage and influence stakeholders.

Excellent communication skills, including written and verbal, are key as is the ability to use your own initiative and make decisions. Knowledge of the Electricity Transmission System and its assets would be an advantage.

In addition, you’ll have a good understanding of forecasting and project financials.

What's in it for you?

A competitive salary of £47,400 - £60,000 per annum

• Annual Performance Based Bonus
• 26 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days
• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave - so long as it is relevant to your role
• Access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days)
• Access to a numerous apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.

More Information

This role closes at midnight on 6th July 2025, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace for everyone. So if you are excited about this role but your experience or qualifications do not match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

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At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

Company

National Grid is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies and lies at the heart of the energy industry in the UK, keeping people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. We’re dreamers, big-thinkers, innovators and builders.

Building a clean, fair and affordable energy future is no easy feat, and it takes all of us and every role is integral to our mission.

With Innovation and technology enabling us to supercharge the path to finding a better way, as we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don’t plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark.

We’re hiring right across our company to support net zero and the largest upgrade of the energy network in a generation – and we need you!

So, join us and find what makes you Superpowered.

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