Portfolio Business Analyst
Job Description
Business Case Development & Assurance
• 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.
Business Analysis & Stakeholder Engagement
• 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.
Portfolio Governance & Product Oversight
• 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 lifecycles 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.
Requirements
Department: Public Sector & Utilities (Ireland)
Function: Information Technology
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level