The role will partner with Business, IT, Finance, and delivery teams to ensure portfolio information is complete, accurate, and timely; identify risks, gaps, and exceptions requiring attention; coordinate resolution of portfolio issues; and identify opportunities to improve reporting, processes, and automation.
Responsibilities
- Support PI Planning by coordinating and collecting required portfolio and program information from Business, IT, Finance, and delivery teams.
- Review planning inputs for completeness and consistency and follow up with accountable owners to address missing or conflicting information.
- Continuously monitor portfolio health, including program/project status, milestones, financials, risks, issues, dependencies, KPIs, and commitments.
- Analyze portfolio information to identify exceptions, emerging risks, trends, and areas requiring management attention.
- Support PI and portfolio close by coordinating the collection and validation of final program/project information.
- Review planned commitments against actual outcomes and identify items that are completed, delayed, changed, or require follow-up.
- Support portfolio governance processes, reviews, planning activities, and change requests.
- Partner with Business, IT, Finance, and delivery teams to ensure portfolio requirements and governance expectations are understood and followed.
- Work effectively with teams operating within Agile delivery models and understand sprint, release, backlog, and PI-level information.
- Interpret Agile delivery information in the context of broader portfolio commitments and outcomes.
- Maintain the integrity, completeness, and quality of portfolio data used for portfolio reviews and leadership reporting.
- Perform data-quality checks and investigate discrepancies across portfolio information.
- Proactively identify manual, repetitive, inefficient, or error-prone activities that could be simplified or automated.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes across planning, portfolio monitoring, governance, close, reporting, and data management.
Qualifications
- 5-7 years of relevant experience in Portfolio Management, PMO, Program Operations, Agile Delivery, or Portfolio Governance.
- Hands-on Jira experience is mandatory.
- Agile delivery experience is mandatory.
- Experience supporting PI Planning or similar program/portfolio planning cycles.
- Experience supporting portfolio/program health monitoring and governance.
- Strong ability to analyze information, identify gaps and exceptions, and drive issues to resolution.
- Strong experience managing and validating data received from multiple teams and stakeholders.
- Strong Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365 skills.
- Strong stakeholder management, analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
- Experience working independently with globally distributed/onshore teams.
Preferred experience
- Experience within a Value Management Office, Transformation Office, Enterprise PMO, or Portfolio Management function.
- Exposure to portfolio financials, KPIs, advantages, investment management, and executive portfolio reporting.
- Experience identifying process improvement, reporting, and automation opportunities.
- Experience working with Power BI or Power Platform development teams is beneficial.
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