Burberry Portfolio and Transformation Analyst

About Burberry

Burberry Limited, a quintessentially British luxury fashion house, is renowned for its innovative designs and commitment to quality. As part of the global luxury conglomerate, Burberry offers a dynamic and inclusive work environment where creativity and excellence are at the forefront. The company is dedicated to fostering a culture that encourages diversity and sustainability, making it a leader in the luxury industry.

Role & Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate, complete and current portfolio, financial, commercial, vendor and transformation data across relevant systems, trackers and reporting tools.
• Analyse data to identify trends, variances, risks, dependencies, anomalies and emerging issues; escalate material findings and provide clear insight to support decision-making.
• Produce governance and management reporting, including dashboards, scorecards, status reports, financial analysis, RAG summaries, action trackers and leadership updates.
• Translate complex data and information into concise, decision-ready insight for senior technology and business stakeholders.
• Reconcile information from multiple sources, identify inconsistencies or gaps, and work with data owners to improve accuracy and completeness.
• Support the preparation and operation of governance and management forums by coordinating inputs, preparing materials, recording decisions and actions, and following through to completion.
• Coordinate inputs from Domain and Platform teams, Technology Project Managers, Senior Delivery Managers, Finance, Procurement, third-party partners and other stakeholders in line with agreed reporting and governance cycles.
• Maintain portfolio, financial, commercial and transformation tools, including Shibumi where applicable, ensuring information is complete, current and aligned with agreed standards.
• Support consolidation and administration of portfolio and governance risks, issues, dependencies, actions and decisions, while accountable delivery and functional owners manage the underlying items.
• Identify opportunities to automate, simplify and improve reporting, data management, governance processes and tools, reducing manual effort and administrative overhead.
• Develop reusable analysis, reporting approaches and good practices for the Technology Transformation team.
• Work flexibly across Portfolio Management & Governance, Technology Business Management and Technology Transformation according to team priorities, workload and development needs, building the subject-matter knowledge needed for each assignment.
• Support demand intake and classification by maintaining the demand pipeline, assessing submission completeness and coordinating follow-up information.
• Maintain an accurate view of approved demand, initiative status, delivery health, dependencies, RAG ratings, sequencing risks and milestones across the technology portfolio.
• Analyse portfolio information to identify emerging delivery trends, capacity constraints, sequencing issues, cross-portfolio dependencies and areas requiring management attention.
• Produce portfolio reporting and insight for governance and leadership forums, including the Business Demand Forum, IT leadership forums and periodic portfolio reviews.
• Support annual and quarterly portfolio planning and revalidation by consolidating portfolio data, funding positions, delivery status, capacity inputs, dependencies and decision points.
• Support portfolio capacity and demand-versus-supply analysis by consolidating capacity information across relevant central and domain capabilities.
• Support cross-portfolio dependency and collision management by identifying and tracking sequencing conflicts, shared constraints and delivery contention.
• Support portfolio assurance through data analysis, reporting quality checks and identification of inconsistent or incomplete delivery information.
• Support administration and coordination of Project Management resource requirements, including tracking current and future assignments, requisition and interview processes, onboarding and offboarding, availability, extensions and releases.
• Support IT financial analysis and reporting, covering budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, purchase orders, accruals, variance analysis and cost reporting.
• Undertake routine IT finance administration, including raising and tracking purchase orders, coordinating accrual inputs, supporting invoice and payment queries, maintaining financial trackers, processing agreed adjustments or reclassifications, and following up outstanding actions.
• Coordinate with Finance Business Partners and IT stakeholders on budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, month-end and year-end activities, reclassification and reporting cycles.
• Analyse financial information to identify trends, cost drivers, variances, risks and opportunities, providing insight for Technology Business Management and IT leadership.
• Maintain vendor and commercial information, including contracts, renewal dates, spend commitments, key obligations, commercial risks and actions.
• Undertake routine IT procurement and commercial administration, including purchase requisitions and orders, supplier onboarding, sourcing and contracting workflows, renewal administration, and coordination of approvals and documentation.
• Coordinate routine Finance and Procurement processes, helping IT stakeholders navigate requirements and ensuring requests, approvals and actions progress in a timely manner.
• Support contract renewal planning by tracking upcoming renewals, financial exposure, required decisions and approvals, and key milestones.
• Support vendor governance and performance analysis, including QBR preparation, SLA/KPI information consolidation, supplier performance reporting and action tracking.
• Support analysis and administration of technology costs, software licences and consumption, including maintaining licence and subscription information, reconciling usage and cost data, and identifying opportunities for improved transparency or control.
• Support financial, commercial and procurement administration and reporting for contingent workforce and third-party resource arrangements, including spend and rate information, purchase orders, supplier information, sourcing and approval processes.
• Support financial benefits and value-realisation reporting by maintaining agreed measures, consolidating information and highlighting variances against expected outcomes.
• Maintain records and supporting documentation for financial and commercial governance, auditability and compliance with relevant controls; identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate finance, procurement, vendor and commercial administration.
• Support maintenance and analysis of the Technology Forward transformation roadmap, scorecard, milestones, adoption measures and strategic progress indicators.
• Analyse transformation information to identify trends, progress, risks, dependencies, adoption gaps and areas requiring leadership attention.
• Produce transformation and organisational effectiveness reporting for leadership, translating measures and progress into clear insight and decision points.
• Support planning and coordination of transformation activities, including working sessions, stakeholder inputs, action tracking and progress updates.
• Support change and engagement activities through analysis of adoption, engagement and feedback measures, and coordination of communications, briefing materials and stakeholder inputs.
• Support the administration, maintenance and ongoing development of central IT SharePoint sites, intranet pages and knowledge-management repositories, keeping information current, accessible and aligned with governance and content standards.
• Coordinate with IT content owners on knowledge-management content, including creation and publication, review cycles, archiving, ownership tracking and follow-up on outdated or incomplete information.
• Improve the IT knowledge-management experience, including site and information architecture, navigation, searchability, content standards, templates and information discoverability and usability.
• Monitor usage, engagement and content-quality information for SharePoint, intranet and other knowledge repositories, identifying opportunities to improve adoption, usefulness and information quality.
• Support administration of transformation collaboration spaces, document repositories, trackers and other tools used to coordinate Technology Forward and wider IT transformation activity.
• Support risk, audit and compliance reporting by maintaining and analysing action and remediation information, identifying overdue items, trends and matters requiring escalation.
• Maintain clear records of transformation actions, outcomes, decisions and dependencies to support transparency, continuity and effective handover.
• Identify opportunities to improve and automate transformation measurement, reporting, knowledge management, coordination and engagement processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in an analytical, portfolio management, PMO, technology operations, transformation, finance operations, commercial or similar role in a technology or complex business environment.
• Strong analytical capability, including experience working with structured and unstructured data, identifying trends, anomalies and risks, and translating findings into clear insight.
• Strong reporting and data-management skills, including maintaining structured datasets, reconciling information from multiple sources and producing accurate management reporting.
• Strong Excel skills and experience with reporting, visualisation or analytical tools; Power BI experience is beneficial.
• Experience with portfolio, project, financial, workflow or delivery-management tools such as Shibumi, Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet or equivalent is beneficial.
• Comfort with detailed process and administrative activities alongside analytical work, maintaining accurate records, following defined controls and seeing activities through to completion.
• Ability to develop deeper capability in budgets, forecasts, actuals, purchase orders, accruals, variance analysis and vendor information.
• Experience supporting governance or management forums, including coordinating inputs, preparing reporting, recording decisions and tracking actions.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple reporting cycles, priorities and deadlines concurrently.
• Effective communication and coordination across multiple teams, with the ability to translate data and analysis into clear messages for different audiences.
• Curiosity and initiative, with the confidence to question inconsistent information, investigate anomalies and identify improvement opportunities.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and escalate risks or issues appropriately.
• Adaptability and willingness to build knowledge across portfolio management, technology financial and commercial management, and technology transformation rather than working within a single specialist discipline.
• Experience with collaboration, content-management or knowledge-management platforms such as SharePoint is beneficial, alongside an interest in improving information structure, accessibility and user experience.
• Experience improving or automating reporting, data-management or administrative processes is beneficial.
• Practical understanding of technology delivery, portfolio governance, transformation or IT financial and commercial management is beneficial.
• Experience in Retail, Luxury or Consumer Goods industries is beneficial.

Skills

Culture

Burberry fosters a creative and inclusive workplace culture that values diversity and sustainability. The company is committed to being a force for good, driving industry change and championing community engagement.

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