Portfolio Analyst / Senior Portfolio Analyst - Oahu

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Our employees are committed to the company's foundational values: integrity, excellence, teamwork, environmental stewardship, and community commitment. In turn, we invest in our employees, providing opportunities for challenge and advancement and offering a competitive compensation package.

 

Posting End Date: This position will remain open until filled. Early applications are highly encouraged.  

 

BRIEF POSTING DESCRIPTION:

The P EP ENTERPRISE EXECUTION Department of the P ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING Division at Hawaiian Electric Company has 1 Management vacancy available. (Role: Professional)

This posting seeks to fill at either the Portfolio Analyst or Senior Portfolio Analyst; whichever level is most suited to the qualifications of the applying candidate.

Portfolio Analyst

 

JOB FUNCTION:

Provides analysis support of portfolio programs, projects, and requests. Works with portfolio managers in all aspects of documenting project ideas, developing business case analyses for those ideas, prioritizing project ideas for approval, and monitoring of approved projects.  Performs a variety of duties, which include—but are not limited to—(1) developing, managing, and maintaining portfolio management methodology and processes to ensure consistent execution and repeatable rigor in the planning, execution, and monitoring of projects within the portfolio; (2) providing general support and coordination for the training and use of Portfolio and Project Management tools; (3) assisting with facilitation of the Project Review Committee (PRC) and communication of information (status, progress, health) about the project portfolios; and (4) drafting correspondence, documents, and minutes.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Portfolio Analysis and Monitoring: Assists with setting standards, monitoring, and maintaining project portfolios such that the overall indicated benefits and values for implementing the portfolios, and the projects within them, are achieved and remain aligned to the Companies’ Strategic goals.  Prepares portfolio analyses and assists with creation and maintenance of status reports on the health of portfolios of projects, on individual projects within those portfolios for various executives and process areas.  Assists portfolio manager with various efforts to monitor, analyze, and report on the performance of the portfolios, and individual projects/requests within the portfolios, with respect to cost, budget, schedule, scope, quality, benefits, and other factors as desired by management.  Collects and consolidates project information (e.g. schedules, risks, issues, variance reports, status reports, etc.) to prepare and maintain integrated views of portfolios and projects.  Reports on portfolio goals, progress, and status.
• Portfolio Management Business Analysis: Assists portfolio managers with all aspects of planning, implementation, and monitoring projects within various portfolios.  Assists with identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, and scheduling interrelated initiatives to achieve Companies’ strategic goals.  Assists with identifying, analyzing, negotiating, and managing issues associated with shared resources (e.g. labor, funding, logistics), inter-project dependencies, and/or inter-related project objectives.  Creates and manages portfolio documentation, metrics, budgets, and schedules in coordination with portfolio managers and project managers.
• Portfolio Management Methodology Business Analysis:  Assists with the development, maintenance, and monitoring execution of the Portfolio Management Methodology.  Assists with planning, implementation and maintenance of a comprehensive portfolio management methodology that will allow portfolio managers to execute portfolios in a quality, repeatable and predictable manner.  The portfolio management methodology will consist of formal and established processes, methodologies, procedures, approval levels, templates, historical information and related system components.  Responsible for contributing to the rigorous execution and monitoring of the execution of the methodology.  Assists with the analysis of a wide range of areas around portfolio/program/project management processes and operations with customers, users, technology business analysts and project managers. 
• Portfolio Assistance: Performs portfolio assistance and high-level a