Senior IT Portfolio Analyst

Renewable Energy Systems; Kings Langley; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a global leader in renewable energy as a Senior IT Portfolio Analyst. You'll manage project governance, intake processes, and performance reporting to ensure that IT services align with strategic goals. This role provides a platform for personal and professional growth in a supportive and diverse environment.

Benefits

Wide range of benefits

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge of project and portfolio methods such as PRINCE2 and Scrum.
• Proficiency in English, with Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Intake process for new projects.
• Own the project governance process and ensure compliance with standards.
• Prepare and deliver portfolio reports to stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Organizational skills

Facilitation skills

Customer experience focus

Tools

PMO tools

Job description

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Description

Do you want to work to make Power for Good?

We're the world's largest independent renewable energy company. We're guided by a simple yet powerful vision: to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.

We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we're tackling some of the world's toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They're our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them.

RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their career they're at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

Our competitive package offers a wide range of benefits and rewards.

The Position

RES are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior IT Portfolio Analyst join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the intake process, supporting our Service Delivery directors, and owning and overseeing the governance process for projects. This role requires a strong analytical mindset, proficiency in PMO tools, and excellent organisational and facilitation skills.

The role is part of the Office of the CIO, which ensures the IT Organisation "does the right things" through strategy and governance, as well as "doing things right" through performance management. This role is an essential part of the delivery of this team through managing all IT change through an intake prioritisation process, and managing and reporting on delivery, ensuring we are delivering our commitments on time, budget, scope and quality.

This roles forms part of our global Project Delivery function made up of four project managers and two business analysts.

Accountabilities

• Manage the Intake Process: Oversee the demand and intake process for new projects and requests, ensuring that all necessary information is collected and evaluated for prioritisation against our framework. Work with our Service Delivery Directors to ensure we are delivering the right projects for the business. Manage the assignment of resource to support the formation of the projects.
• Project Governance Process: Own and manage the governance gated process for projects, standards for documentation, requirements gathering, testing, go live procedures and service introduction, ensuring compliance with established standards and methodologies (waterfall and agile). Run a Customer Satisfaction regime to collect feedback from stakeholders and end users and use feedback to drive improvements to our services.
• SDLC Governance Process: Oversee the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) governance process to ensure internal delivery teams are delivering the right outcomes consistently to a high standard.
• Portfolio Reporting: Prepare and deliver comprehensive portfolio reports to stakeholders, highlighting key metrics and project statuses. Prepare material for project boards and for executive consumption.
• Risk Management: Implement a framework for managing and tracking risks across all of IT (working across IT functions including Operations and Cyber Security). Ensure that IT tracks and manages risk. Manage risks for the IT projects to ensure that risks are being managed and for an overall portfolio position on risks.
• IT Compliance and Audit: Support IT through compliance and audit management activities.
• IT Performance Reporting: Own and collate a monthly report for IT Performance Reporting, including creating variants specific to business units.
• PMO Tooling: Manage and optimize PMO tools to support project and portfolio management.
• Present, support, and lead-by-example with a safety and quality-oriented attitude.
• Collaborates with IT peers and leadership to ensure that IT services are integrated and aligned with the broader IT strategy.
• Participate in strategic planning and contribute to the development of the overall IT strategy.
• Manage small IT projects as required.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Knowledge and use of project and portfolio methods such as PMO, PRINCE2, P30, and Scrum.
• Proficiency in English with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Proficiency in Spanish is preferred.
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to explain technology solutions in business terms, establish rapport and persuade others.
• Strong experience overseeing a Project Management Office, including demand management, portfolio management, and project execution oversight.
• Strong customer and user experience focus.
• Ability to adapt to a wide range of activities without losing focus in order to handle the diverse nature of tasks within the OCIO effectively.

At RES we celebrate difference as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience of our people.

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