WHAT YOU BRING

• Inquisitive, with a keen desire to learn build a foundation of knowledge around the energy industry and energy trading to facilitate an ongoing career within Shell Energy Trading & SLMT (Shell LNG, Marketing & Trading)
• Works well individually (semi-autonomously) to own and deliver discrete packages of work end to end, as well as part of a team, collaborating with colleagues to solve problems and share understanding and experience
• Good communicator with the ability to clearly articulate demands and requests of colleagues across the portfolio
• Ability to provide challenge, actively identify areas for improvement (through people, process, data or technology) and bring initiative and innovative problem-solving ideas to our portfolio, with the ability to clearly articulate solutions and leveraging new technical solutions and increasing automation where possible
• Understanding of the value of data and familiarity with using data to generate insights and inform decision making, utilising best practice techniques and solutions
• Happy to work in a flexible environment and able to manage ongoing work priorities with the team as they change
• Understanding of the value chain (or desire to build this) and how the work we do both directly and indirectly aligns to the business strategy and contributes towards the bottom-line business value

WHAT’S THE ROLE

The IT portfolio analyst role is key to helping the IDT Manager(s), IDT Advisor(s) & Portfolio Managers and Performance & Integration Manager to run the portfolio in an effective and efficient way.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

As the Portfolio Analyst, you will be responsible in supporting the IDT Manager(s), IDT Advisor(s) & Portfolio Managers and Performance & Integration Manager within Shell Energy Trading and SLMT (Shell LNG, Marketing & Trading) to drive rigour and discipline in our portfolio management processes, ensuring that we work effectively and efficiently on a day to day basis - this will also include driving key transformational initiatives across the portfolio, which are designed to help standardise and better manage and enable the way we work and deliver value to the business. In addition to your role, you will gain a good knowledge of the overarching work being delivered across Shell Energy Trading and SLMT (Shell LNG, Marketing & Trading), and how it relates to the business vision, strategy and direction, to better equip them for an ongoing career within the wider portfolio.

Responsibilities of the role will include:

• Managing Data quality/integrity - Reviewing and reporting on the data within ServiceNow and other source systems to ensure that it is complete and of sufficient quality, and holding data owners to account, to allow us to effectively manage our portfolio
• Coordinating and Maintaining Integrated Plans - working with Portfolio Managers and ensuring that the integrated plans are up to date across the portfolio to provide transparency around key delivery milestones and enable their clear alignment to the overarching business strategy and value
• Managing key portfolio events - working with internal and external stakeholders to help identify key events or decision points for the product/portfolio (i.e. major upgrades, architecture drivers, end of life, contract extensions, etc.) and ensuring that they are managed appropriately
• Facilitating key portfolio governance sessions - Managing and documenting key review sessions across the portfolio, holding attendees to their actions and ensuring that dependencies and risks across SET/SLMT are surfaced, documented and managed appropriately to better enable collaborative working across our wider team
• Delivering Ad Hoc reporting and analysis - creating Ad Hoc reporting and conducting associated analysis on consolidated portfolio level data from our source systems to better enable data led decisions for the IDTM’s, while at the same time understanding how simplify similar requests in the future and automate where possible
• Supporting Opportunity Framing - Driving the creation of discrete pieces of opportunity framing and initiation work to provide a better degree of clarity on proposed investments and what they will provide to the business
• Management and Drive of Key Transformational Initiatives - There are a number of transformational initiatives that have been identified across the portfolio that will better enable us to work and manage ourselves (e.g. Implementing a discrete talent tracking and management solution to better facilitate succession management) - these initiatives will be key to driving an increased degree of effectiveness across the portfolio and the PfA will be required to drive and lead on the various initiatives as they are identified and prioritised - ensuring that accountable parties are held to their proposed delivery for each initiative