Portfolio Analyst
CurrentI sit within the Portfolio Management and Assurance Team. In this role I manage demand across the project end to end lifecycle ensuring governance controls are followed as well as supporting pipeline management and improvement.- Analyse ideas that are submitted to become projects to ensure they meet the required governance standards.- Communicate feedback to stakeholders whose ideas and impacts do not meet required standards and provide recommendations, to resolve issues efficiently… Show more I sit within the Portfolio Management and Assurance Team. In this role I manage demand across the project end to end lifecycle ensuring governance controls are followed as well as supporting pipeline management and improvement.- Analyse ideas that are submitted to become projects to ensure they meet the required governance standards.- Communicate feedback to stakeholders whose ideas and impacts do not meet required standards and provide recommendations, to resolve issues efficiently to prevent delays.- Engage in weekly architecture calls, to feedback information from conversations I have had with stakeholders during the idea triage process.- Actively contribute to a weekly governance call to communicate any risks or concerns from my business area that will feed into the wider picture of work that the department is trying to achieve.- Co-ordinate weekly calls to bring ideas through the final layer of governance to projects.- Collate emails and interpret meeting outputs to establish key messages to present these insights to stakeholders. These insights help to inform decision making on the call and can spark discussions between stakeholders.- Collaborate with stakeholders and external suppliers to identify areas for improvement and work together to deliver and embed new ways of working to make continuous improvements to processes.- Utilise Clarity portfolio management tool to track projects throughout their end-to-end lifecycles and complete data cleanse activities to ensure data is aligned and up to date.- Utilise PowerBi reporting tool to analyse average impacting times, drilling down into programmes and individual projects to review averages. Contacting project managers who are over the expected average to review and make the necessary changes to improve averages.- Incorporate ITIL 4 practices of Service Portfolio Management to ensure optimal delivery of services. Show less