Lead PMO Finance and Resourcing Analyst

Join us as a Lead PMO Finance and Resourcing Analyst s role sits within the BUK Portfolio team, where you’ll play a pivotal role in driving financial clarity, investment governance and workforce alignment across business portfolios ensuring the right funding, people and plans are in place to execute a complex portfolio of change. You will lead BUK financial forecasting and analysis, supporting strategic investment decisions, oversee management and work closely with key teams to maintain an accurate and forward‑looking view of financial and workforce metrics

• Analytically minded with the ability to review information, interpret trends and challenge results
• Strong financial management and analysis skills, including understanding of cost recovery models and capitalisation processes
• Expertise in financial modelling and analysis (especially Excel), with experience handling large data sets
• Effective stakeholder management with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience preparing clear, insightful presentations to communicate findings or recommendations
• Good understanding of Portfolio Management processes within a banking environment
• Relevant qualifications such as Scaled Agile SAFe (desirable)
• Prior experience working across multiple business units within a matrix management organisational structure

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job specific technical skills.

This role is based in Knutsford.

To support the portfolio in the delivery of successful change, by ensuring that processes and practices are aligned with relevant controls and governance standards and that all activity is aligned with the strategic objectives of the business area / organisation.

• Facilitate portfolio prioritisation, ensuring the portfolio is compliant with the established control framework, including oversight of controls and standards.
• Support the effective governance of the portfolio, helping establish and operate effective Portfolio Governance that enables quality, data driven decision making, ensuring executive reporting is fit for purpose and timely.
• Monitor portfolio performance, including tracking of programme and project progress, identification of thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Facilitate the management of the portfolio Book of Work, prioritisation and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy‑in, and potential risks.
• Oversight of change delivery to ensure alignment with relevant policies and standards, driving consistent, robust controls data; monitoring indicators of control adherence, acting to remediate any weaknesses in the controls; and identifying and implementing actions to drive greater maturity against key control indicators.
• Review, resolve, manage and escalate portfolio risks and issues, challenging where appropriate and actively supporting the resolution of variances as necessary.
• Engage and influence all stakeholders to help them to understand their responsibilities and fulfil them effectively through clear, timely communication and well facilitated portfolio management processes.
• Support an environment of effective delivery by empowering portfolio management resources, utilising data led thinking to inform decisions, leverage expertise, and drive accountability and transparency.
• Operate as a source of best practice guidance and expertise, to ensure consistent excellence around controls, and governance (including training) is embedded across the portfolio.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations,…