Project Portfolio Analyst

Location: Greater London

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** Project Portfolio Analyst
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* Location:

** London
* * Contract Type:
** 12 Month FTC
** Work Pattern:
** Full Time and Hybrid
** About the Job
** The Project Portfolio Analyst plays a key role in supporting the financial governance and transparency of the programme. The role focuses on building, maintaining, and tracking business cases, defining and maintaining cost models, and ensuring that costs transitioning into Business as Usual (BAU) are well understood, accurately forecast, and fully transparent across the organisation.

The postholder will work closely with the Head of Finance Business Transformation, Finance Business Partners, and Workstream Leads to provide programme insight, ensure compliance with corporate financial standards, and enable informed decision-making through robust financial analysis and reporting.
** What you’ll spend your time doing:
**** Business Case Development and Management
*** Support the development of initial and updated programme and project business cases, ensuring financial assumptions, benefits, and costs are clearly articulated and validated.
* Maintain a central repository of business case versions, approvals, and change logs.
* Track benefits realisation and financial performance against business case commitments throughout the programme lifecycle.
* Provide challenge and assurance to business case inputs, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and financial frameworks.
** Financial Tracking and Reporting of Programme Financials
*** Develop and maintain programme-level financial dashboards and reports, providing clear visibility of spend, forecast, variance analysis, and cost trends.
* Support budgeting, forecasting, and re-forecasting cycles in line with organisational timelines and financial governance requirements.
* Provide financial analysis and commentary to support programme governance forums and executive reporting.
** Cost Modelling and Transition Planning
*** Define and maintain a comprehensive cost model that captures one-off programme costs and ongoing operational (BAU) cost implications.
* Work within Finance, and across Operations, and Programme Teams to identify which costs will transition to BAU, including headcount, licences, contracts, and service costs.
* Ensure transparency and traceability of future-state cost ownership, funding sources, and cost centres.
* Support the handover of cost models and financial tracking tools to BAU teams to ensure continuity post-transition.
** Programme Controls, Financial Governance and Assurance
*** Support governance compliance in line with the MS Amlin’s change framework and Lloyd’s regulatory expectations.
* Ensure consistent reporting standards, templates, and process adherence across the work streams.
* Support quality assurance reviews and audit readiness.
* Provide financial assurance at key programme stage gates and governance reviews.
* Ensure that programme financial management processes align with the change framework standards and financial policies.
* Maintain documentation and audit trails to support financial transparency and compliance.
** Programme Reporting & Governance
*** Develop, manage, and maintain consolidated programme reporting across all work streams and sub-work streams alongside the programme lead.
* Collate, challenge, and synthesise inputs to produce accurate and insightful status reports, including RAG summaries, milestone tracking, and risk/issue analysis.
* Support the Finance Programme Lead in producing material for the various Steering Committees, Working Groups, Design Authorities, and Ad-Hoc Executive updates, including Board level reporting.
* Track and manage key dependencies, assumptions, risks, and issues across all work streams
** Stakeholder Engagement
*** Act as the key liaison between the Expenses Finance Partner, and other stakeholders on financial matters.
* Present financial information and insights in an accessible way to non-financial stakeholders.
* Build strong relationships with workstream leads and Finance teams to promote…