Pontoon Solutions
Strategy Analyst
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Strategy Analyst
London – Hybrid 3 days
12 Month Contract
Inside IR35
About the Role
Support the development and refresh of ITGPST Technology Strategy artefacts through structured analysis of platforms, capabilities, and initiatives
- Conduct current-state assessments, including capability mapping, platform inventories, and identification of constraints and pain points across GPS products
- Analyse external drivers (e.g. payments market trends, regulatory change, infrastructure evolution and competitor actions) and assess implications for ITGPST
- Maintain strategy tracking artefacts related to application, capability and services scope, metrics and supporting initiatives
- Support the development of targeted strategy deliverables against key technology priorities (e.g. AI, data, cloud modernization etc.)
- Support the development and review of business cases for emerging strategic priorities
- Produce clear, well-structured strategy insights, options, and recommendations
Strategy Roadmap Delivery Tracking
- Support the development and ongoing maintenance of multi-year ITGPST roadmaps, ensuring initiatives are clearly articulated, prioritised, and aligned to strategic themes
- Maintain visibility of strategic initiatives across their lifecycle (planned, funded, in-flight, delivered) across global and regional portfolios
- Capture and track delivery progress against the ITGPST strategy, reporting key strategic achievements (e.g. capability, resilience, cost or risk benefits) and assessing whether initiatives are delivering intended strategic outcomes
- Support analysis of dependencies, sequencing, and trade-offs, highlighting areas of misalignment or emerging delivery risk
- Produce concise strategy-to-delivery reporting (e.g. progress summaries, achievement highlights, variance to plan) for senior executive and regulatory routines
- Support traceability from strategy to delivery outcomes, enabling leadership assurance and informed decision-making
- Assist in identifying strategic risks, constraints, and emerging issues
- Maintain and evolve core strategy artefacts that demonstrate clarity, consistency, and progress over time
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Architecture Target-State Support
- Partner with Architecture colleagues to summarise detailed architecture artefacts into executive-ready summary outputs
- Support analysis related to legacy platforms, consolidation opportunities, and migration to strategic global solutions
- Ensure strategic materials appropriately reflect resilience, scalability, regulatory, and regional considerations globally
Governance Stakeholder Engagement
- Support the development of strategy-related materials for executive routines
- Contribute to the planning and facilitation of strategy workshops, working sessions, and senior reviews
- Act as a coordination point between strategy, architecture, portfolio, and delivery teams on ITGPST strategic topics
Essential
- Experience in strategy, technology analysis, or transformation within financial services or payments. Well-suited to candidates from a consulting background.
- Understanding of payments ecosystems, particularly international and cross-border payments
- Strong analytical and problem-structuring skills, with the ability to work with ambiguity
- Excellent written and visual communication skills, able to produce executive-ready materials
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams with guidance, while owning defined outputs
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Role Characteristics
- Analytical, structured, and detail-oriented
- Able to connect strategic intent to delivery reality
- Collaborative, credible, and outcome-focused
Success Measures
- High-quality, trusted strategy analysis and materials
- Clear, well-maintained ITGPST roadmaps with strong strategy-to-delivery traceability
- Improved visibility of delivery progress and strategic achievements
To Apply
Please apply with an up-to-date CV.
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone’s chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.
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