Senior Portfolio Analyst (Remote)

Resp & Qualifications

PURPOSE: 
The Sr. Project Management Office Portfolio Analyst position performs a series of activities in direct support of the Project Portfolio Management function.  Primary activities include process management, portfolio management, data analysis and reporting.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Data Analysis, Reporting, and Presentation

• Analysis - Performs standard data analysis, draws conclusions, and makes recommendations for risk mitigation.  Data includes Schedule, Resource, Milestone, Issues, Risks, Dependencies, and Financials. Works on complex problems where analysis of situation or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors to achieve best results.  Able to identify root causes and suggest corrective actions or alternative solutions. 
• Facilitation - Serves as backup to the Portfolio Manager at key meetings. Facilitates various portfolio review meetings; guides the discussion, contributes ideas and suggestions. Financial Management

Executes PMO Financial Management process

• Tracks and reports the financials for each project and program, with a roll-up to the portfolio level.  Performs reviews and audits of financial transactions entered the PPM Tool.
• Responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of all financial data.   
• Prepares materials for financial reviews at various project steering meetings, and executive committees.  
• Maintains proper controls for funding approvals and verifies that an audit trail exists for each funding request. 
• Collaborates with the finance department, PMO leadership and various functional managers to ensure project budgets are properly estimated and controlled
• Interfaces with Finance staff for financial reconciliation and reporting. 
• Review of Financial Transactions and Adjustments within the Clarity tool.
• Research financial data issues; identifies underlying problems and makes recommendations for corrective action. 

Resource Management

• Tracks resource utilization; compares modeled/planned resource mix to actual resource mix and utilization. Prepares findings and recommends corrective actions. 

Schedule Management

• Leads oversight using integrated work breakdown structures.  Understands use of milestones, predecessors, successors, critical path, etc.  

Portfolio Management

• Oversight - Oversees select aspects of the PMO portfolio and supporting services. Responsible for designing, documenting, implementing, and collecting select metrics within the PMO portfolio. Steward and own portfolio monitoring and controlling activities, such as Enterprise Resource Management, Project Financial Reviews, etc. Tracks and reports the impacts of interdependencies between projects and programs. Validates that all interdependency data exists in the Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) tool, develops extracts and reports of the data.  
  Generates metrics from data extracts from PPM tool.
• Strategy - Ability to understand corporate strategy and its impact to the portfolio management function.
• Reporting - Transforms data to information that enables decision-making and puts forward the key message/ takeaways. Proactively come up with innovative ideas to automate and enhance existing reports and dashboards. Produce new reports and insights that can be utilized by the ePMO resources and leadership. Provides both verbal and written communications regarding portfolio status, risks, issues, financial and resource data for executive consumption. Creates various types of portfolio documentation and views, summarizing key data elements and identifying items for closer review. Develops graphs and charts as appropriate to represent very detailed data at a summary level. Supports and implements presentation formats and scenarios to help convey information to executives.
• Tools - Maintains high quality of information within the PPM tool.  Identifies gaps and escalates for corrective action. Acts as a key resource to maintain tool, tickets, and upgrades of the PPM tool

Process Management

• Compliance - Understands and facilitates adherence to processes supporting PMO services.
  * Monitors process compliance across user base. Monitors and reports on process effectiveness and efficiency.
• Stewardship - Stewards processes supporting PMO services, including estimation management, change management, issue management, risk management, resource management, schedule management, financial management, etc. Stewards processes by training and mentoring users on how to follow PMO processes, soliciting feedback from users on the quality of the process, managing the backlog of process improvements, and leading process improvement initiatives. 
  Designs, builds and tests new procedures and/or enhancements to existing procedures to increase efficiency and effectiveness while retaining appropriate controls and measurements. 
  Ensures alignment of processes to organizational standards and policies.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field OR In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Experience: 5 years relevant experience in system/technical analysis. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) 

• Some familiarity with SQL or Data Modeling practices.
• Familiar with Project Management Lifecycles (e.g. PMI, PRINCE2, etc.) and how they are leveraged with Solution Delivery Lifecycles to deliver technical solutions. 
• Solid knowledge of SDLC project management discipline.
• Intermediate user proficiency with one or more Project Portfolio Management tools (e.g. CA Clarity PPM, HP PPM, Planview PPM, etc.).  CA Clarity experience preferred.
• Proficiency with Enterprise Reporting tools (e.g. Cognos, Business Objects, etc.).
• Intermediate or higher proficiency with MS Project, PowerPoint, SharePoint, InfoPath.
• Advanced proficiency with MS Excel.
• Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.

Salary Range: $68,256 - $135,564

Salary Range Disclaimer

The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the work is being performed. This compensation range is specific and considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilites of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, internal peer equity, and market and business consideration. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range, as compensation decisions depend on each case's facts and circumstances, including but not limited to experience, internal equity, and location. In addition to your compensation, CareFirst offers a comprehensive benefits package, various incentive programs/plans, and 401k contribution programs/plans (all benefits/incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).

Department

ePMO Tools & Performance Resou

Equal Employment Opportunity

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer.  It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Where To Apply

Please visit our website to apply: www.carefirst.com/careers

Federal Disc/Physical Demand

Note:  The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes him/her ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position.  Occasional walking or standing is required.  The hands are regularly used to write, type, key and handle or feel small controls and objects.  The associate must frequently talk and hear.  Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted.

Sponsorship in US

Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship

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