Portfolio Analyst

Risk and Opportunity Management

• Manage the identification and monitoring of portfolio-level risks and opportunities, ensuring they are clearly articulated.
• Escalate issues where appropriate and work with stakeholders to ensure risks are understood and managed effectively.

Financial Management and Reporting

• Manage Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) activity, acting as the first point of contact for queries and coordinating the raising and monitoring of purchase orders.
• Support the SEO Finance Analyst with monthly forecasting and budget monitoring, ensuring financial records are accurate.

Stakeholder Management

• Engage with a wide range of stakeholders across the portfolio, building effective working relationships and acting as a key point of contact for reporting queries.
• Draft and coordinate communications to ensure clarity around reporting requirements, timelines and expectations.

Digital and Data

• Use digital tools to collect, analyse and present portfolio data, transforming information into clear, accessible insight.

Essential Criteria

• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to plan and prioritise work, manage competing demands and meet deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and tailor outputs for different audiences, including senior stakeholders.
• Experience of working collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, supporting engagement and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Strong attention to detail, with a focus on maintaining accurate records and producing high-quality reporting and governance outputs.
• Ability to analyse and interpret information to identify key messages, risks and trends, alongside a proactive approach to taking ownership of work and escalating issues where appropriate.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of working in a project, programme or portfolio environment, supporting planning, scheduling and delivery.
• Understanding of governance processes, project controls, assurance and risk and issue management.
• Experience of Oracle or similar financial systems.
• Knowledge of, or willingness to learn, government finance principles and processes including P2P.
• A willingness to work toward and successfully obtain a recognised Practitioner qualification in Project Management, such as APM PMQ, PRINCE2 or Managing Successful Programmes

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service

Salary and Benefits

Alongside your salary of £36,735, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £10,642 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.

Office Attendance

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection Process Details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Please use your personal statement (in no more than words) to show your alignment to the Essential Criteria as set out in the Skills and Experience section of the job advert.

Applications will be sifted on Personal Statement.

Please note - the CV incorporated into the application form is for information purposes only and will not be scored.

The interview will consist of behaviour and strength-based questions.

Interviewees will be asked to deliver a presentation and a written exercise at interview, further details will be provided nearer the time.

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Further Information

Reasonable Adjustment

We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.

Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DSIT Candidate Guidance. A DSIT Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.

We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants section.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.

Candidates who meet the minimum benchmark may be placed on a Reserve List for consideration for similar roles, including those at a lower grade. Candidates who narrowly miss the benchmark and are not placed on the Reserve List may still be considered for an offer in a similar role at a lower grade.

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

Any move to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

DSIT does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home