Job Title: Senior Portfolio Analyst
Location: Reading or Havant
Duration: 6 Months
Description:
Job Title: Senior Portfolio Analyst
Location: Reading or Havant
Duration: 6 months
Work model: Hybrid,2-3 days onsite in a week.
Job Description:
Role The main purpose of the Portfolio Finance Analyst role is to maintain financial controls and systems, including budgeting for all IT project expenditure.
Day-to-day activities will include working closely with project and programme managers, senior management and other stakeholders within IT to provide a project cost accounting function to a growing portfolio of over 100 projects.
Skills / Experience
* Knowledge of the Oracle Project Cost Accounting system (or similar) would be advantageous.
* An excellent understanding of Project Cost Accounting fundamentals. Study towards an accountancy or related financial qualification would be helpful but is not eClientntial.
* Good understanding of end-to-end project lifecycle delivery.
* Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel.
* Communication and Personal Attributes
* Ability to deliver under pressure whilst building relationships.
* Customer focused approach.
* Highly articulate with effective written and interpersonal skills.
* Strong Influencing skills.
* Strong attention to detail.
* Ability to thrive in a challenging environment and develop new skills.
* Problem Solving, Analysis and Reasoning
* Excellent analytical skills
Key Accountabilities
* Provide a professional finance function within the IT Portfolio Office to ensure the timely provision of project funding end effective financial control.
* Maintain financial controls enabling Project Cost Accounting for the portfolio including spend against budget, forecast spend and cost variance analysis.
* Manage the annual budgeting and roadmap process for IT projects.
* Provide financial management support for projects within the IT change portfolio, including budget development and monitoring, purchase order requisition and fulfilment, and reconciliation of projects and their close out.
* Ensure projects are managing their finances in line with the Transformational Change Governance Framework.
* Provide support and guidance to project managers in tracking their budgets.
* Monitor compliance with portfolio reporting / financial standards and intervene when this deviates or slips.
* Review funding requests to ensure they remain within approved project budgets.
* Participate in project review meetings to highlight finance related matters.
Experience
* Experience in annual budgeting process for projects or portfolios.
* Background in Portfolio Office functions or PMO functions, using collaborative skills in coaching others to complete required reports and managing financial reporting cycle on large projects.
* A demonstrable understanding of Client’s business areas, the Energy industry and IT.
* Knowledge of Client Transformational Change Governance Framework or an equivalent stage gate-based project governance process.
* Awareness of safety practices within high risk engineering environments.
* Awareness of information security practices within commercially sensitive environments.