Portfolio Analyst

Overview

As Portfolio Analyst in the Transformation Management Office, you enable strategic execution across a university-wide portfolio. You support governance, reporting, and process improvement to ensure transparent delivery of transformation initiatives. You lead a small team of TMO Support Officers, coordinating multi-project activities and maintaining PMO controls. The role mixes hands-on financial management with data-driven decision support in a hybrid on-site/remote setup. You contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Support governance by preparing papers, reports, and board packs for governance bodies
• Maintain portfolio, programme and project management documentation and tools
• Develop and improve standards for planning, financial management, reporting, change control, risk management and QA
• Create and maintain dashboards and reporting on milestones, forecasting, and risk analytics for decision making
• Coordinate quality assurance across project management processes, audits, reviews and configuration management
• Facilitate progress reviews and key decision meetings, and follow up on actions
• Guide financial forecasting and regular financial management and reporting
• Line manage and develop TMO Support Officers and grow team competences
• Drive cross-TMO improvement projects and lessons learned processes

Key requirements

• Experience as a TMO/PMO Manager or project manager in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment
• Experience setting quality standards for portfolio/programme/project delivery
• Strong organisational and multi-tasking skills with multiple workstreams
• A recognised portfolio/programme/project management qualification (e.g., Prince2, MSP, Agile)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with stakeholder engagement experience
• Experience of managing a team including performance management and development
• Proficiency in MS Office and project management tools (e.g., MS Planner, PPM, Excel, SharePoint, Power BI)

• strong communication
• stakeholder engagement
• multi-tasking
• MS Planner
• PPM
• Excel

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