Portfolio Analyst or Senior Insights Analyst

Lithium3 Technology Recruitment Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Portfolio Insights Analyst to join a growing team in Manchester. The role involves managing portfolio management information and providing insights through solid data analysis. Ideal candidates should be comfortable working with stakeholders, possess strong analytical skills, and have experience in portfolio management. The position offers benefits including bonuses and home working options, with potential travel to Sheffield required.

Benefits

Bonus

5% pension

Home working available

25 days holiday increasing yearly

Qualifications

• Experience in portfolio management or similar analytical roles.
• Strong ability to manage multiple stakeholders effectively.
• Proficiency in financial data analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Produce quality assured enterprise portfolio management information.
• Identify and assess risks, issues, and opportunities.
• Gather and analyze financial data for project performance.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

Agile methodologies

Risk assessment

Tools

Planview or equivalent

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.

Lithium3 and our client are equal opportunity employers