Portfolio Analyst or Senior Insights Analyst

Lithium3 Technology Recruitment Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

5% pension

Home working available

25 days holiday increasing YOY

Job summary

Lithium3 are working with a fantastic large and growing business seeking a Portfolio Insights Analyst. This role helps prioritise projects by effectively managing MI and delivering data-driven insights to support portfolio decisions.

You'll join a small but growing team; strong stakeholder engagement and portfolio management experience are valued. The position is Manchester-based with some travel to Sheffield (expensed).

Qualifications

• Produce quality assured enterprise portfolio management information (MI).
• Identify risks, issues and opportunities at project/portfolio level for executive reports.
• Analyse financial data to determine actual and forecast performance against budget.

Responsibilities

• Produce enterprise MI reflecting portfolio state.
• Analyze risks, issues, and opportunities at portfolio level.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyse financial data for project performance.
• Analyse benefits delivery with sponsors.
• Identify trends in MI and provide options to address.
• Perform QA across the portfolio through lessons learned and health checks.
• Log and track change demand with Portfolio Lead and stakeholders.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Portfolio management

Data analysis

Analytical thinking

Tools

Planview

Job description

Portfolio Analyst or Senior Insights Analyst

Portfolio Insights Analyst, Portfolio Analyst, Financial Analyst, MI Analyst, Business Data Analyst, Data Insights, Analyst, Demand Management, PMO, MSP, Agile, Stakeholder engagement, Planview or equivalent, Reports, Permanent, Manchester based with some expensed travel to Sheffield (1/2 days a week).

Lithium3 are working with a fantastic large and growing business seeking a Portfolio Insights Analyst. This is a role to help the business prioritise projects/change requests by effectively managing MI and giving valid insights based on solid data analysis. The role is to be part of a small but growing team so you would be coming in at the right time to make your mark.

This position is a varied and requires someone good with stakeholders and ideally worked in a portfolio management area. It could work for the right Financial Analyst, Data insights analyst, PMO analyst or Data Manager looking for this kind of step.

Soft skill wise we need someone cool under pressure, analytical, not afraid of a challenge and extremely well organised.

Role wise we require someone comfortable with the below responsibilities:

• Produce quality assured enterprise portfolio management information (MI), ensuring it is an accurate reflection of the current state of the enterprise portfolio.
• Identify new, and assess existing risks, issues and opportunities at both a project and portfolio level, to enable the translation of the right information into Executive level reports.
• Work directly with project stakeholders to gather, organise and analyse financial data to determine,in detail, actual and forecast performance of each project against budget.
• Work with project / programme sponsors to analyse benefit delivery.
• Use the enterprise portfolio MI to identify and analyse trends, working with Programmes/Projects to understand root causes and developing options to address.
• Perform quality assurance activities across the enterprise portfolio through lessons learned, health checks and post implementation reviews.
• Work with the Portfolio Lead and key business stakeholders to understand, quality review, log and track new change demand from across all areas of the Business.

Our client offers fantastic benefits in bonus, 5% pension, Home working available, 25 days holiday increasing YOY.

• bonus
• 5% pension
• Home working available
• 25 days holiday increasing YOY.

Lithium3 and our client are equal opportunity employers