Portfolio Analyst – Vattenfall IT

Are you someone who is able to create an overall perspective and see the complete picture while diving into details? We are now looking for a Portfolio Analyst who has good communication and analytical skills to join us in one of our Vattenfall IT locations at in Sweden, Germany, Poland or the Netherlands.
Vattenfall IT is the internal provider of IT infrastructure services for the entire Vattenfall Group. It is an international shared service center, providing IT services and support. Vattenfall IT Infrastructure supports Vattenfall by having professional people, knowledgeable in both business and IT, integrating services to enable business functions, providing a helicopter view of required services, utilizing the external market and enforcing standardization in order to optimize cost efficiency.

Your Job as Portfolio Analyst
Within the PPM (Project Portfolio Team), you are responsible for supporting BU/BA/SF managing their IT portfolio and IT in steering its own portfolio. This includes a strategic understanding of the portfolio, its KPI, financials and value drivers, as well as the tools where the portfolio information is stored. It also means performing health checks on the portfolio, identifying errors and supporting in rectifying issues in logging or maintaining the IT initiatives. You will be involved in the IT quality processes for projects and will take an active role in updating the IT Portfolio Management tools.
The position is within the Project and Portfolio Management team, which has the responsibility of bringing the Businesses and the IT community closer by building a common view and approach of how to execute, measure, and secure value creation from all IT-related investments within Vattenfall.
To succeed in this role, you have significant experience in facilitating meetings and you are structured, pedagogic and communicative. You are a team player with the ability to energize your team to reach your goals together.

Your tasks as Portfolio Analyst
Analytical tasks:
• You regularly screen the portfolio of your allocated BA/SF to check on completeness and quality of the data and on progress and content of the portfolio
• You prepare the quarterly IT portfolio reports for your allocated BA/SF and bring forward the most important points
• You conduct ad hoc analysis on specific topics either strategic (trends over several years, progress of certain KPIs) or hands-on (issues with time-writing or accruals)
• You contribute to quality processes at portfolio and program/project levels (Project Investment Assessment, Portfolio Health Check, Project Assurance Review) and support initiatives to improve quality of the IT portfolio data

Communication and support tasks
• You create and maintain a constructive dialogue with your allocated BA/SF, provide advice and help to their Portfolio Management resources, adapting to their specific BA while heralding Vattenfall principles and standards
• You support the BIO and Portfolio Managers in the yearly Business Planning Process
• You display good coordination skills across the various stakeholders, incl. Portfolio Managers, Business managers, BIO and VIT representatives (Controlling, Finance, SPOCs), as well as the rest of our PPM team
• You formulate diplomatic recommendations on portfolio setup and improvements, based on thorough knowledge of program/project/Agile lifecycles (in particular VPGP).
• You suggest and discuss continuous improvement both in the portfolio process and portfolio tools (Cat4, PowerBI dashboards, ad hoc reporting)
• You Together with the other Portfolio analysists, you organize and conduct quarterly information meetings for portfolio owners, and actively participate in the communication towards our portfolio and project communities via mail, Yammer, Sharepoint, etcorganize and conduct (with the other Portfolio

Your profile as Portfolio Analyst
Master degree or similar, preferably in Economics or IT-related topics
At least IPMA C knowledge/ certification or equivalent
At least 5 years of experience in project management, of which minimum 3 years in responsible leadership
Knowledge and understanding of portfolio management (waterfall or Agile) is desirable

Who you are
– Are delivery- and quality oriented
– Display a positive outlook and high level of integrity
– Have excellent communication and collaboration skills
– Encourage cooperation and trust towards business and users
– Work independently and with own initiative
– Live up to the Vattenfall Experience Principles and Behaviors: Active, Open, Positive, Safety
– Have excellent skills in written and spoken English language
At Vattenfall, we are convinced that striving for diversity helps building a more profitable, efficient and attractive company. Therefore we seek a harmonious balance of employees in terms of age, religion, gender identity & expression, sexual identity, disability and ethnic background.

More Information
For more information about the position you are welcome to contact hiring manager Audrey Larcher (Audrey.larcher@vattenfall.com). For more information about the recruitment process please contact Teri-Anne Brink (teri-anne.brink@vattenfall.com).
In Sweden, the union representatives are Vatkovic Silvija Lilja (Akademikerna), Inger Strandberg (Unionen), Christer Gustafsson (Ledarna), Lennart Bengtsson (SEKO). They may all be reached via Vattenfalls switchboard +46 (0)8-739 50 00.
We welcome your application in English, including CV and cover letter. The last date of application is 11th of September 2022 Please apply directly via the job ad.

Our organization
Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest generators of electricity and one of the largest producer of heat. Our strategic direction includes a strong customer focus, a more sustainable energy portfolio and increased business focus. Vattenfall is a European energy company with over 20000 employees. Together we produce heat and electricity from six energy sources; wind,hydro, biomass, nuclear, coal and gas. To continuously and reliably deliver energy to our society we need a variety of energy sources.
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