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.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years' practical experience, gained within the last 7 years, in Business Analysis, with a proven track record supporting large-scale business change and/or technology programmes and projects.
• Demonstrable experience developing business cases, business requirements documentation, product justifications and business process maps.
• Experience operating within portfolio, programme or project environments, supporting governance, assurance, reporting and decision-making activities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organisational skills, with the ability to assess complex issues, manage competing priorities and develop practical recommendations.
• Experience maintaining and analysing management information to support portfolio oversight, governance and reporting requirements.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage effectively at all organisational levels.
• Experience working within Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Highly organised, proactive and results-oriented, with strong attention to detail and accountability for delivering high-quality outcomes.

Please note: This role is only open to candidates based in Northern Ireland.

Additional Information

Why Version 1? 

 At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability. 

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits 
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme 
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance 
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme 
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies 
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat 
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform. 
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes. 

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.    

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer. 

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity. 

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter [email protected] at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially. 

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