Portfolio Analyst

We understand that a good work life balance is important, and we want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this. We are happy to talk about flexible working. Please contact Recruitment for more information.

Job Purpose

The Portfolio Office sits across all change activity within Admiral’s UK Insurance Business (EUI). It is responsible for enterprise level reporting and setting standards and processes for all change activity. The Portfolio Office provides clarity on all change being undertaken by the UK Insurance business, detailing why those initiatives exist, what benefit they bring and what they cost. This will result in better oversight and control, so we focus on the changes that give the biggest benefit to the business and on doing them well. It will enable us to execute our most important changes more quickly.

The Portfolio Office has matured its services over the last six months and will continue to do so in 2021.  We are looking for someone to join our team who has experience of implementing risk management processes and risk mitigation strategies and deep understanding of project and programme lifecycle management including key artefacts and documentation.

The successful candidate will have proven experience of working within a PMO environment (preferably portfolio management) and will have solid experience of governing change activity in both a waterfall and agile setting. The role requires a proactive, self-confident individual willing to engage, network and continue to develop their own expertise.

Main Duties

• Ensuring all initiative delivery meets governance standards.
• Provide guidance on governance frameworks, procedures, and techniques
• Provide data-driven insights for risks and issues across the portfolio
• Work closely with Project, Programme and Product Managers to support them in articulating and managing their RAID items.
• Drive embedding of governance controls within an agile setting.
• Support the pack creation for monthly governance and risk meetings.
• Support stage gate review meetings.
• Ensure that data quality is managed to expected standards.
• Define and maintain portfolio governance arrangements, including ToRs and memberships.
• Drive continuous improvement of delivery practices to increase maturity and capability and update use of standards, processes and tools accordingly.
• Define, maintain, share and implement delivery standards, processes and tools.

Other PMO Resposibilities

• Analysis and annual reviews of Portfolio Office standards and processes
• Provide secretariat support at Portfolio level governance forums.
• Review Project documentation.
• Review and maintain standard Project Documentation according to Admiral Project Management Guidelines.
• Provide support and identify ways to further improve the Enterprise Delivery Framework.
• Define minimum viable data standards and track data quality KPIs against them.
• Undertake iterative support interventions to improve data quality.

Behavioural Competencies

Analytical

• Identify and define problems or trends, extract key information from data and develop workable solutions for the problems or recommendations for improvements
• Continually look for ways to improve the service being provided.

Communication

• Ensure that all communication is clear and appropriate for its intended audience.
• Presentation skills.
• Facilitator.

Challenging

• Be prepared to challenge the status quo and make suggestions for improvement.
• Be willing to voice an opinion on all matters whilst being receptive to feedback.

Team Work

• Take a proactive lead in creating a supportive team environment.
• Readily be available to help support the team.

Motivation

• Able to motivate and create a positive and proactive environment for team members.
• A strong focus on delivery and quality.

Time Management

• Well organised and able to prioritise tasks to meet deadlines.
• Able to manage workload correctly with little supervision.

Experience and Qualifications Required

Essential:

• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, are essential.
• Strong analytical skills and experience turning data into insights.
• Excellent understanding of PMO procedures, including supporting both waterfall and fast-paced agile environments.
• Experience of Programme or Portfolio reporting.
• Understanding of financial and resource management processes and data.
• Experience in Project and Programme planning.
• Experience of working with budgets.
• Excellent time management skills and working to deadlines.
• A good working knowledge of Word, Excel, Visio, Outlook, PowerPoint and MS Project.

Desirable:

• Commercially aware.
• Experience of working in multifunctional team environments.
• Use of ProjectOnline, PowerBI, Jira.
• P30, APMP qualifications.

Interviews

Interviews for this position will be the week commencing 30th August.

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate's experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we're consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here; https://admiraljobs.co.uk/employee-benefits/.

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