Job Title:

Lead IT Analyst (Portfolio Management)

Department:

IT Planning & Portfolio Management

Location:

Columbus, OH

Reports to:

IT Manager, Portfolio Management

Direct Reports:

No

Purpose:

The Lead IT Analyst is a position within the IT Planning & Portfolio Management department responsible for successful IT Project financial execution.

Key outcomes for success include:

• Responsive and timely issue resolution


• Effective project management process, metrics, and measures


• Timely and accurate support and documentation for regulatory filings


• Impact analysis and “What if” modeling for projects


• Utilization of standardized templates


• Collaborative business partner relationships


• Impactful project and program level presentations


• Understands, communicates, and trains on process improvements

Essential Responsibilities:

• Proactively identifies and understands issues, problems, opportunities and uses the information to develop appropriate solutions


• Takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences


• Builds strategic relationships with internal and external groups to proactively identify potential risk areas and mitigate impacts to project execution


• Supports regulatory initiatives by gathering data and preparing regulatory schedules and/or preparing pro-forma calculations, testimony and data requests; recognizes situations where the regulatory framework and rate case outcomes drive our business


• Demonstrates a subject matter expertise in project management processes, metrics, measures, and key strategic business initiatives


• Understands and utilizes industry best practices and data as they relate to job responsibilities


• Has strong knowledge of other departments’ roles and interactions with IT and the larger organization


• Collaborates openly with cross-functional teams to perform work functions


• Provides recommendations based on scenario analysis and leads the implementation, as appropriate.


• Develops and monitors post-implementation reporting for further refinement and sustainability


• Demonstrates our commitment to quality by documenting work fully and accurately


• Compiles, organizes and formats data, including qualitative analysis required for internal (IT) and external reporting


• Composes clear, direct, concise, and complete verbal & written messages; Summarizes and presents information in executive level presentations


• Stays focused and meets productivity standards, deadlines, and work schedules


• Seeks and acquires new competencies, work methods, ideas, and information that will improve own efficiency and effectiveness on the job.


• Challenges the status-quo of existing processes to ensure efficiency and flexibility to support ever-changing business requirements; facilitates and promotes continuous improvement of business processes.


• Prepares for group meetings by identifying the key issues, goals, and stakeholder expectations


• Demonstrates strong business acumen, the ability to analyze and communicate trends, and the drive and commitment to achieve goals and business results.


• Identifies the sequence of tasks and the resources needed to achieve goals; prioritizes key action steps; evaluates progress against schedule and goal


• Demonstrates strong leadership skills, as well as the drive and commitment to achieve goals and business results with a sense of urgency.


• Builds relationships with, and is able to influence, co-workers; provides teammates with coaching and mentorship.

Key Activities / Deliverables:

• IT Project execution support


• Periodically audit the process to ensure it is still appropriate and aligns with business strategy and recommend changes if necessary


• Identify continuous improvement opportunities


• Monitoring project costs and forecasts


• Monitoring project issues and risks


• Support of project change control


• Monthly actual to budget and to forecast variance analysis


• Invoice reconciliation and monthly accrual submissions


• Project planning and scheduling


• Project deliverable review


• Ensure process documentation is created and updated periodically

Selection Criteria:

• 7+  years of experience in project management as a project manager, test lead, lead business analyst or a related role on multiple large-scale, complex projects with a total budget of >$5M and a duration of at least 12 months OR in audit, regulatory or compliance fields with focus on IT project delivery.


• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in related discipline (Computer Science, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, Economics)


• Demonstrated experience in leading multiple process improvement initiatives


• Work independently in multiple functional domains


• Demonstrated relevant experience in the development and coaching of other team members 


• Excellent written and verbal communication 


• Strong experience with MS Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio)


• Aptitude for attention to detail, accuracy, precision and logic


• Demonstrated strong process orientation and analytical/problem solving skills


• Experience with Service Now PPM is a plus


• Utilities Industry experience is a plus


• Prefer professional certification: Project Management Professional (PMP), International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with at least 3 years of professional expertise with the corresponding certification.