Governance Lead

6 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom NatWest Markets Full time

**Change & Project Management**, **Business Strategy & Delivery**:
**Governance Lead**:
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Permanent

Full Time

R-00227112

Our people work differently depending on their jobs and needs. From hybrid working to flexible hours, we have plenty of options that help our people to thrive.

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

**Job description**:
Join us as a Governance Lead
- This is a great opportunity to take on a role in an innovative, forward thinking environment where you’ll be able to have a tangible effect on the function
- We’ll look to you to govern an investment portfolio to realise the objectives of an legal entity by providing governance, reporting and delivery oversight services
- You'll be exposed to a wide range of senior stakeholders, putting you in a unique position to build a credible network that will open the door to excellent career opportunities

**What you'll do**:
As a Governance Lead, you’ll be defining and developing the portfolio structure to provide appropriate governance, control and management of a high profile portfolio, including associated interdependencies.

It’s a highly collaborative role that will see you working closely with a variety of stakeholders. In doing so, you’ll be conducting regular reviews of the portfolio, challenging the status quo and driving informed decision making about portfolio priorities, making sure that impacts on risk, stability and resilience from a customer and bank perspective are considered.

You’ll also be:

- Leading in the preparation of programme status or project highlight reports to escalate risks and issues to senior executives when required
- Providing platform, domain and cross-domain coordination across strategic programmes in order to identify gaps, overlaps, interdependencies and design conflicts
- Understanding the overall domain or platform risks, how they may impact the portfolio and reducing where possible
- Tracking and reporting on portfolio costs and making sure the portfolio is completed within the agreed domain or platform spend budget
- Recording actions and minutes for internal and external meetings to ensure stakeholders are made aware of key decisions

**The skills you'll need**:
To join us in this role, you’ll ideally hold an appropriate portfolio management qualification, such as Prince 2, Agile or SAFe Portfolio Management.

You'll also need:

- Knowledge and experience of portfolio management theories, models and practices within an Agile or DevOps environment
- The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and senior management level colleagues
- Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills



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