Portfolio Specialist, Enterprise Portfolio Management Office

The Reserve Bank's Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) is a centralised function that is responsible for providing effective governance over the Bank's strategic investment portfolio.

The EMPO objectives are to strengthen project management practices, provide assurance and oversight across the Bank's portfolio and guide improved project governance and delivery. We support the evaluation, prioritisation, and ongoing monitoring of the Bank's project portfolio. We also provide advice and support to the Investment Committee.

You will work collaboratively across the organisation to support the evaluation, prioritisation and sequencing of the Bank's enterprise projects, to achieve organisational strategies. Provide accurate and timely information to enable strategic decisions based on a clear understanding of cost, risk, impact and benefits to be realised. This includes producing timely reporting and analysis/insights that support the Bank's decision making.

To be successful you should have:

• Experience in Enterprise Portfolio Management.
• Experience with prioritisation frameworks.
• Extensive experience in portfolio analysis and presenting thematic insights (e.g. benefits/ risk/workforce insights).
• Strong interpersonal skills and a focus on outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of Project Management methodologies, frameworks, techniques and tools.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills (verbal and written).
• Tertiary qualifications relevant to the Bank or relevant experience.

Responsibilities:

• Support the review and evaluation of new Business Cases, ensuring quality submissions are made to the Investment Committee.
• Apply the Bank's portfolio prioritisation framework to submissions (e.g. business cases) for the Investment Committee.
• Provide transparency of project benefits, benefits realisation and thematic risks across the portfolio.
• Provide timely assessment of portfolio performance, as well as early identification of and options for resolution of portfolio-level issues and risks impacting the portfolio.
• Support the transparency of dependencies at a portfolio level, reporting on potential impacts and possible remediation strategies.
• Ensure that portfolio governance reporting requirements are met.
• Proactively seek opportunities to streamline and automate Portfolio Management processes and procedures.
• Work collaboratively across the organisation to support the evaluation, prioritisation and sequencing of the Bank's enterprise projects, to achieve organisational strategies.
• Provide accurate and timely information to enable strategic decisions based on a clear understanding of cost, risk, impact and benefits to be realised. This includes producing timely reporting and analysis/insights that support the Bank's decision making.