Seeking a Business Analyst to support the monthly governance cycle / process portfolio including data analysis and reporting, facilitation of meetings and exchanges with Finance partners, and presentation of the final assessment data to executive leadership.
You will:
- Drive annual budget adherence for portfolio programs by administering the financial change request process and ensuring change requests are submitted, reviewed, and revised in a timely manner. Review risks (overspend) and opportunities (underspend) and evaluate probability to advise on overall impacts to the portfolio financial assessment (end of year forecast).
- Work with Business operations Investment Planning, Line of Business Portfolio Managers, and Programs to administer a financial offset / trigger / lever process to deprioritize lowest priority spending and support a dynamic but balanced budget.
- Apply subject matter expertise to wide-ranging change control processes and challenges.
- Develop recommendations regarding new or better reports or tools based on assessment of stakeholder needs, trends, strategic direction, and organizational priorities.
- May lead special initiatives around portfolio management and change controls May assist with some IT related enhancement discussions. Collaborate with cross-functional team members on most effective field rollout of process, tool and/or reporting changes.
- Monitor, prepare regular reports, and present status to senior management. Organize, schedules, and lead cross functional stakeholder meetings to review analysis financials/budgets. Discuss and recommends solutions.
- Perform tasks or supports activities required for the portfolio change control function.
Pay Rate: $52-54/hour on W2 basis
Start: Late-July
Duration: 5 months (40 hours per week)
Location: Dublin, CA (Hybrid/mostly remote – onsite once in a while, very infrequent)
Requirements:
- Must currently reside in Bay Area
- General understanding of governance and change control functions
- Proficient in PowerBI, PowerPoint, and excel skills (Microsoft office suite, SharePoint, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, Word) and associated analytic tools such as Pivot Tables, charts, slicers, etc.
- Bachelor's degree
- 5 years of total related experience such as integrated or strategic portfolio/work planning in an utility or related field
- Demonstrated experience working with large tabular data sets, diverse data sources, and /or data models.
- Advanced data analysis skills, knowledgeable in collecting data, organizing, synthesizing, reporting, recognizing trending and anomalies, drawing conclusions, and developing recommendations.
- Knowledge in project/work scheduling concepts, methods, and practices.
- Knowledge of budgeting processes and methods.
- SAP experience (SAP Work Management, SAP Business Warehouse BW)
Keywords: data analyst, business analyst, strategic portfolio management, change governance, change control, integrated planning, strategic planning, portfolio analyst, PMO analyst, budget analyst
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $52.00 - $54.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Experience level:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Power BI: 3 years (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- Dublin, CA 94568 (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Dublin, CA 94568