IT Portfolio Analyst - Finance Team

About the role

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Responsibilities

• Perform Portfolio Management functions, project sequencing and analysis to optimize the project portfolio while minimizing resource constraints.
• Proactively identify trends and patterns and generate insights for IT LOB's senior leadership.
• Define, establish, and implement enhancements to IT capacity planning and resource planning to include process definition, procedural documentation, tool requirements and enhancements and end user training.
• Proactively collaborate with project teams, resource managers, and project leaders on resource needs and resolve resource constraints as they arise.
• Planning and management at the portfolio level: tracking of financial actuals and accruals; month end reporting and variance analysis; reconciliation with Finance during budgets and projections in conjunction with portfolio approved spend on all projects and teams.
• Aid in the creation and maintenance of appropriation requests, purchase orders, and invoice processing.
• Design, develop, analyze, and report on critical portfolio metrics and scorecards as related to finance and resource management.
• Translate business needs into analytics/reporting requirements to support executive decisions and workflows with required information ensuring that complicated information is delivered effectively and efficiently.
• Partner with key stakeholders to understand their information needs and identifies ways to visualize and present information in a user-friendly manner.
• Evaluate project requests cross-functionally and within application areas in partnership with application owners to determine resource requirements, durations, and competencies.
• Enhance the process and reporting to ensure accuracy and quality of data.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement within the context of portfolio financial management.
• Leverage a deep understanding of the business expectations and requirements to enhance information visualization through development of dashboards and scorecards.

Qualifications

• Minimum BA/BS degree or equivalent.
• Five+ years of work experience relevant to the position.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to independently drive resolution of issues and challenges and shape your own work.
• Highly proficient with Excel and a working knowledge of business intelligence products such as Power BI and SharePoint, and data warehousing techniques.