Senior Portfolio Analyst Locations: Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle Hybrid working Salary: £44,110 - £47,664 Are you ready to drive transformation across a complex Digital and Data portfolio?
Are you passionate about aligning work programmes with strategic objectives and the realisation of benefits?
If so, continue reading to find out more about this fantastic opportunity to join HMRC.
At HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) we make sure money is available to fund the UK's vital public services and assist people with targeted financial support.
Data Analytics Team (DAT) forms part of the Analysis function within HMRC's Risk and Intelligence Service (RIS) Directorate.
DAT provides analytical expertise to policy and compliance partners across multiple business areas.
We interrogate complex data to first understand it, and then to provide insight on compliance risks and shape new compliance capability.
DAT uses data analytics for a variety of tasks: Identifying and predicting patterns of customer behaviour.
Identifying and prioritising risks to the tax system to inform strategic and tactical decision making.
Providing analysis and insight to help decision makers understand emerging trends and changes to customer bases.
Job description As a Senior Portfolio Analyst, you will be responsible for overseeing a diverse digital, data and intelligence portfolio ensuring alignment with HMRC strategic objectives and compliance priorities, working in partnership with project teams and stakeholders to deliver high quality outcomes with defined benefits.
Key Responsibilities: Establishing and maintaining governance frameworks for the delivery of projects across DAT, defining clear roles and responsibilities, aligning accountabilities with HMRC standard frameworks.
Monitor the effectiveness of governance frameworks, implementing change control to support continuous improvement.
Ensure visibility of project delivery through overseeing the Planning & Prioritisation function of DAT.
Accountable for monitoring the effectiveness of our Portfolio Management Application to track project delivery against key milestones.
Support the building of project delivery capability through assessment of organisational maturity, taking an enterprise approach to standard setting.
Support long term workforce planning through effective monitoring of resource utilisation and capacity planning.
Monitor project delivery performance through developing a suite of KPI's, utilising Power Bi for reporting internally within DAT Senior Management Team and meeting reporting requirements to RIS SLT.
Support project leads to track benefits through to realisation, ensuring alignment with the HMRC Benefit Management Framework.
Person specification We are looking for someone with a strong understanding of portfolio management and a proven ability to apply industry-level standards across large, complex portfolios.
The ideal candidate will have experience in prioritising initiatives to align with strategic objectives, as well as in gathering and presenting project delivery progress in management dashboards, using exception-based reporting where appropriate.
You should be comfortable conducting assurance activities within a digital and data-driven portfolio, supporting decision-making and effective change control.
Essential Criteria Management of Portfolio Practitioner, or willingness to work towards Experience of Planning & Prioritising projects, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives Experience of co-ordinating reporting and performance analysis at a project or Portfolio level Experience of strategic workforce and capacity planning Able to engage with and manage senior stakeholders across a complex network An understanding of benefit Management and the implementation of benefit measurement standards Closing Date: Monday 9th December 2024