Lean Portfolio Analyst

Barclays is seeking a Lean Portfolio Analyst to join our Lean Portfolio team within Barclays UK Technology. This role plays a key part in enabling our Data Domains to operate with clear visibility of funding, prioritisation, and delivery cadence. You will help drive transparency and predictability across multiple data delivery streams, ensuring portfolio activities are aligned with business priorities and executed in line with agile and lean portfolio management principles.

To be successful as a Lean Portfolio Analyst, you should have experience with:

• Experience in a PMO, financial governance, or portfolio support role (or equivalent academic/work experience demonstrating transferable analytical and organisational skills).
• Understanding of cost management, forecasting cycles, and financial controls.
• Good numeracy skills with the ability to manage budgets, funding forecasts, and capacity metrics.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the 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 will be located at our Knutsford office.

To support change delivery managers in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that project management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives.

• Support to change delivery managers, ensuring their programme is compliant with the Barclays Control Framework, including oversight of controls and governance standards.
• Creation and implementation of standardised PMO processes and methodologies that are aligned with controls and governance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects.
• Monitoring of project performance, including tracking of project progress, identification of risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, and creation of a report on project status to senior management.
• Support of project documentation, including maintenance of project plans, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that project documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
• Facilitation of project governance, ensuring that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives, and that project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies are managed effectively.
• Provision of change management framework training to project managers and other stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver successful projects.
• Continuous improvement of project management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve project delivery.

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise.
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise.
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• Or for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and…