Financial Crime Portfolio Prioritisation Manager

Location: City of Edinburgh

End Date

Friday 20 November 2026

Salary Range

£67,023 - £74,470

We support flexible working –  for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Job Title

Portfolio Prioritisation Manager

Salary

£67,023 - £74,470

Location(s)

Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester or Edinburgh

Hours

Full time – 35 hours per week

Working Pattern

Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, in the office. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What you’ll be doing

Consumer Financial Crime Optimisation & Strategy is responsible for identifying, prioritising and delivering change that strengthens financial crime controls, improves colleague and customer outcomes, and ensures investment is focused on the areas of greatest value and risk reduction.

We're hiring a Portfolio & Prioritisation Manager to play a pivotal role in ensuring that demand, investment and delivery activity are governed consistently across the Consumer Financial Crime portfolio. Acting as the front door for incoming change requests and optimisation opportunities, you'll provide portfolio leadership, planning and governance oversight across a diverse range of strategic, regulatory, operational and technology-enabled initiatives.

You’ll maintain the integrated portfolio roadmap, coordinate capacity planning and resource allocation, support prioritisation decisions and provide executive reporting that enables informed decision-making.

Working closely with senior stakeholders, delivery leads and operational teams, you'll help ensure the right work is delivered at the right time and that change activity remains aligned to strategic objectives, operational priorities and available capacity.

Day to day you'll:

• Manage portfolio intake and triage processes, ensuring new demand is assessed, governed and routed appropriately.
• Lead prioritisation assessments across incoming change requests, optimisation opportunities and investment proposals.
• Maintain a single integrated roadmap covering live initiatives, pipeline activity and future opportunities.
• Coordinate portfolio capacity planning, workforce forecasting and resource allocation.
• Lead portfolio governance, reporting cycles and executive updates.
• Maintain oversight of risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and delivery achievements across the portfolio.
• Produce portfolio dashboards, management information and executive insight to support decision-making.
• Support senior leadership forums through high-quality governance packs, reporting and decision tracking.
• Manage portfolio financials, benefits tracking and realised value reporting.
• Maintain governance standards, delivery frameworks, templates and controls that support a transparent and audit-ready environment.
• Facilitate prioritisation discussions with senior stakeholders, ensuring strategic alignment and appropriate challenge.
• Support continuous improvement of portfolio management, governance and planning approaches across the function.

Why join us?

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

What we’re looking for?

• Portfolio & governance experience Strong experience within PMO, portfolio management or programme governance, ideally within a complex change or transformation environment.
• Prioritisation & portfolio planning Experience managing demand, prioritisation and portfolio planning, including resource and capacity considerations across contending initiatives.
• Governance…