Senior Analyst, IT Project & Portfolio Management Job in Vancouver V5j5k3, British Columbia Canada
Senior Analyst, IT Project Portfolio Management
Location
Burnaby BC, Canada
The Role
The Portfolio and Program Management Office (PMO) is responsible for portfolio management of IT investments, and overall oversight in Canada for program and project management, financials, and IT processes. These programs include projects ranging from new IT systems capabilities, maintenance releases and enhancements, and large-scale business initiatives. The Portfolio and Program Management group provides Portfolio, Program and Project management expertise to successfully deliver and meet the needs of business customers.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Portfolio and PMO, this role will be responsible for implementing and ensuring consistent application, maintenance of tools, IT processes and reporting in a multi vendor outsourced environment. The role will collaborate closely with the Global Business Services (GBS), Canada IT Leadership, key IT vendors, and business stakeholders. Responsibilities include: work with stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely information is acquired to produce program, portfolio, resource, and demand management metrics, develop and document future processes; identify, document, and develop reporting; map processes for automation and streamlining. Other duties include training and support, as well as process improvement and to be assigned as needed.
This role requires understanding of program, project, portfolio, and PMO capabilities.
Responsibilities
Portfolio/Project Reporting
- Support portfolio management by providing standardized reporting on project metrics in a multi-vendor environment. Project metrics include but are not limited to status reporting, financials and forecast, capacity and demand management. Provide stakeholder communications.
- Forecast and assist in providing portfolio risk assessments in areas such as resource, capacity, and other.
- Partner/Collaborate with stakeholders - program managers, project managers and other functional groups such as finance, to gather, create and maintain PMO dashboards and deliverables. Analyze impact of changes to executive reporting processes, standards and requirements and assist in refining PMO reporting process accordingly.
- Provide reporting on benefits realization and post implementation reviews.
PMO Tools
- Leverage MS Project Server, and collaboration tools such as SharePoint, to track and analyze project portfolio, financials, capacity, milestones and status.
- Serve as the data custodian; ensures data integrity within the IT Portfolio Management toolkit through regular portfolio reviews and stakeholder discussions.
- Serve as primary contact and support resource for users of the Portfolio Management office tools.
Process Improvement
- In collaboration with GBS, manage the Program Office’s PMLC/SDLC methodologies and library of templates.
- Contribute to ongoing improvements to PMO approach, processes and tools, support effort to enhance IT Governance model specific to Canada.
- Provide support to the development of IT governance processes such as change and incident management by working closely with the GBS, ensuring the models supports Canada.
- Assist in implementing the PMO and IT processes for Canada.
Requirements
All requirements are based on the following years of experience and include, but are not limited to the following:
A minimum of 3-5 years of:
- Experience working primarily in a project environment (Business Analyst, Implementation Analyst, Project Coordinator, Project Manager, etc.) is required
- Working knowledge of MS Project Server and SharePoint/and or other collaboration and Project or Program Management tools is required
A minimum of 5 years experience of:
- Demonstrated reporting and analytical expertise is required.
- Previous experience working in portfolio/program management is preferred.
Additional required:
- Requires strong business acumen, strategic outlook and a focus on complex project delivery.
- Strong self-starter, able to work independently in a complex, matrix environment.
- Requires a structured, process-oriented problem solving mentality.
- Strong communication/inter-personal skills. Able to support operations and influence the development of cross-functional Program behaviors and Project Management tools.
- Great attitude with the ability to work in a fast-paced project environment
Education
- Degree in Business or IT Management is preferred
Company Background
Burnaby, BC based Best Buy Canada Ltd., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortune 100 company Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) and is one of Canada’s largest and most successful retailers. With more than 22,000 employees across the country, Best Buy Canada Ltd. operates the Future Shop (www.futureshop.ca) and Best Buy Canada (www.bestbuy.ca) brands, providing unique and distinct in-store and online consumer offerings, tailored to meet a diverse range of needs. We pride ourselves as being one of the best employers in the country. We offer a competitive benefits package and our Head Office employees enjoy great amenities at our South Burnaby location such as an in-house gym and restaurant facilities, free parking, shuttle service, in-house dry cleaning services and more.
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Candidates
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