[Hiring] Technology Retail Portfolio Manager @RBS

Role Description

Join us as a Technology Retail Portfolio Manager (11 months). This is an opportunity for a driven Portfolio Manager to take on a new, exciting career challenge in which you’ll be accountable for Technology's complex and critical portfolios. You’ll have the chance to build and maintain a strong network of stakeholders of varying seniority. Put your existing project management skills to the test and take advantage of our fantastic development opportunities. We're offering this role on a temporary basis until November 2027.

What you'll do:

• You’ll be accountable for the management of a Technology investment portfolio, realising strategic objectives of the business, the franchise and the function.
• Provide and manage investment planning, transformation portfolios and design services.
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure an effective pipeline view of technology investment requirements are maintained, used, and kept under regular review.
• Understand the programme and project risks and how they may impact the Technology portfolio.

Qualifications

• Experienced Portfolio Manager with the ability to manage and analyse financial data to support effective decision-making.
• Experience using Excel for financial tracking and forecasting, including pivot tables, formula creation and data analysis.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience managing a technology portfolio or programme governance, including RAID, milestones, dependencies, assurance and senior reporting.
• Proven experience managing programme finances, including budgets of £60m, forecasts, actuals, Capex/Revex, variance analysis and resource cost.
• Evidence of producing financial and delivery insight for senior decision-makers, including identifying risks, opportunities and recommended actions.
• Experience supporting multiple programmes or investments concurrently, balancing competing priorities, dependencies and deadlines.
• Demonstrable experience working across technology, finance, risk, business and third parties to resolve issues and maintain effective delivery controls.
• Evidence of constructively challenging plans, forecasts or assumptions and driving actions through to resolution.
• Experience of contract and third-party risk management, including CIOM, IRQs, BCAPs, BCP, SOC reporting and management of non-deliverable contractual obligations, associated risks and mitigations.

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