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Role Title: Data Modelling Analyst
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Hybrid - 3 days on site either Birmingham or Sheffield
Umbrella only
£430
Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?
Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.
The primary goal is to support the Head of CTO Change Portfolio management with:
- The overall delivery of strategic portfolio outcomes, supporting business vision and purpose through complex and global change portfolios.
- Ensuring the CTO portfolio and outcomes are aligned to the organisational strategic requirements and priorities including technology architecture roadmaps, vendor strategies and evergreening strategy.
- Development and ownership of business cases and benefit validation to support transformation, strategy and fast paced business responses to emerging threats and opportunities.
- Strong problem-solving skills with strong experience of negotiating, documenting and presenting recommendations to deliver shared outcomes.
- Regular engagement and portfolio level reporting to senior stakeholders across CTO and the clients Technology
- Supporting management of organisational risks across CTO by ensuring portfolio risks, issues and dependencies are managed effectively and senior stakeholders are informed / updated where appropriate.
- Ensuring that CTO can meet committed outcomes by working with programme teams to navigate challenges and escalate effectively where needed.
- Ownership and delivery of strategic planning cycles across change portfolios to ensure financial investment decisions supports CTO long term strategy, risk appetite and aligns to the clients strategy and future business / customer needs.
- Ensuring CTO programmes are well interlocked with other programmes within the clients Technology and dependencies are understood and managed.
Responsibilities:
The role holder will not own any governed programmes or projects but will be responsible for driving the quality of project data, improving delivery of CTO change initiatives through the project delivery cycle, tracking delivery and driving improvements to achieve best practice across all aspects of the CTO project life cycle.
- Manage CTO Portfolios, monitor and report portfolio health.
- Ensure that portfolios adhere to the clients Frameworks and standards.
- Partner with stakeholders at all levels
- Daily engagement with Project & Program sponsors and change directors
- Coordination of annual planning activities for CTO portfolios.
- Prepare portfolio update reports, quality procedures, audits, status reports where required.
Essential Skillset/Experience:
- Very good understanding of Portfolio management frameworks, methodologies, and best practice techniques
- Excellent stakeholder management, presentation, and communication skills - Proven experience of exposure to Senior stakeholders is critical.
- Strong knowledge of technology infrastructure products and platforms and fintech.
- Strong understanding and experience of financial planning processes including forecasting, management of variances and common project accounting principles (e.g. cash, directs and P&L accounting)
- Critical thinking and pro-active problem-solving skills, able to work to under pressure to challenging timescales and deliver at pace.
- Very good collaboration skills and ability to engage and bring different teams together.
- Very good time management skills and ability to work under challenging timescales to deliver at pace.
- Experience of continuous improvement.
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!
