Portfolio Business Analyst

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• Develop business cases using the Five Case Model, ensuring strategic alignment and analysis of requirements, delivery options, potential benefits, associated business risks and economic calculations.
• Monitor and maintain approved business cases, ensuring spending objectives and financial oversight are effectively managed, with appropriate action taken to close, extend or secure ongoing business case cover where required.

• Conduct analysis of business problems and opportunities, working with stakeholders to identify requirements, inform solution design and develop business requirements documentation, product justifications and supporting artefacts.
• Conduct 'As Is' and 'To Be' process mapping.
• Facilitate workshops, stakeholder engagement activities and presentations to support requirements gathering, decision-making and communication across all organisational levels.
• Build and maintain effective relationships across business and delivery teams.
• Lead the identification, baselining, monitoring and reporting of benefits to ensure anticipated outcomes are realised and evidenced.

• Oversee a portfolio of digital products, ensuring governance requirements are met and products progress through agreed approval and assurance processes.
• Monitor product status, approvals, governance actions, delivery progress, risks, dependencies and financial information, ensuring issues are identified and progressed appropriately.
• Maintain accurate portfolio management information, ensuring product records, milestones, approvals and reporting data remain current and reliable.
• Support product life cycles from initiation through delivery, benefits realisation and closure activities.
• Prepare governance papers, portfolio reports, management information and briefing materials for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Manage and prioritise a varied workload across multiple products and initiatives, ensuring competing deadlines, governance activities and stakeholder requirements are effectively coordinated.

• Minimum of 5 years' practical experience, gained within the last 7 years, in Business Analysis, with a proven track record supporting large-scale business change and/or technology programmes and projects.
• Demonstrable experience developing business cases, business requirements documentation, product justifications and business process maps.
• Experience operating within portfolio, programme or project environments, supporting governance, assurance, reporting and decision-making activities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organisational skills, with the ability to assess complex issues, manage competing priorities and develop practical recommendations.
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