Defence Business Services (DBS) - Senior Portfolio Analyst

The DBS Portfolio Management Office (PfMO) is responsible for improving governance, with a focus on the selection, prioritisation and control of DBS's projects and programmes and maintaining the DBS Change Portfolio.As a Portfolio Analyst you will be responsible for the oversight of the DBS Change Portfolio, providing insight, information, and support to strengthen governance and enable effective management of the portfolio. You will work across DBS to identify and categorise new projects; you will work with projects and programmes to proactively identify, quantify, and track the realisation of benefits used to justify investment; identify and monitor portfolio risks (threats and opportunities) and escalate as appropriate; and you will manage and engage with a wide range of stakeholders. They focus primarily on providing information, insight and support that strengthens portfolio governance that enables prioritisation decisions and effective allocation of resources across the portfolio. Ultimately you will help ensure the optimal delivery of strategic business objectives in line with MOD and DBS priorities through the analysis of a range of information sources and engagement with programme / project stakeholders and converting this into informed insights using appropriate reporting and visualisation methods. Project pipeline works with business areas to identify and categorise new projectsGovernance and reporting co-ordinate reporting from projects and provide analysis of performance. Provide secretariat for governance boards. People and Leadership support the Portfolio Manager to communicate and build commitment to a shared vision and sense of purposePlanning Scheduling and Resourcing maintain portfolio delivery map and critical path to monitor project progress. Recognise and track interdependencies across change projects Risks & Opportunity Management identify and monitor portfolio risks (threats and opportunities) and escalate as appropriate Stakeholder Management manage and engage with a wide range of stakeholders. Draft and sign-off correspondenceBenefits Management monitor benefits throughout the realisation life cycle