Portfolio Specialist - Enterprise Portfolio Management Office

The Reserve Bank’s Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) is a centralised function that is responsible for providing effective governance over the Bank’s strategic investment portfolio.

Our objectives are to strengthen project management practices, provide assurance and oversight across the Bank’s portfolio and guide improved project governance and delivery. We support the evaluation, prioritisation, and ongoing monitoring of the Bank’s project portfolio. We also provide advice and support to the Investment Committee and Change Coordination Committee.

In this position you will provide support for the governance, prioritisation and ongoing monitoring of the Bank’s project portfolio including reporting to senior governance groups.

Key responsibilities include:

• Work collaboratively across the organisation to support the evaluation, prioritisation and sequencing of the Bank’s enterprise projects and initiatives, to achieve organisational objectives.

• Provide accurate and timely information to enable strategic decisions based on a clear understanding of cost, risk, impact and benefits to be realised. This includes producing timely reporting, analysis and insights that support the Bank's decision making.

• Support the review and evaluation of new Business Cases and Change Requests, ensuring quality submissions are made to the Investment Committee.

• Apply the Bank's portfolio prioritisation framework to projects and BAU initiatives and continue to evolve the framework to meet the needs of the organisation.

• Provide transparency of project benefits, benefits realisation and thematic risks and issues across the portfolio.

• Provide timely assessment of portfolio performance, as well as early identification of and options for resolution of portfolio-level risks and issues impacting the portfolio.

• Support the transparency of dependencies at a portfolio level, reporting on potential impacts and possible remediation strategies.

• Ensure that portfolio governance reporting requirements are met.

• Proactively seek opportunities to streamline and automate portfolio management reporting, processes and procedures.

• Support Secretariat activities for the Investment Committee and Change Coordination Committee.

To be successful you should have:

• Strong interpersonal skills and a focus on outcomes.

• Experience in enterprise portfolio management.

• Experience with enterprise prioritisation frameworks and planning.

• Extensive experience in portfolio analysis and presenting thematic insights for senior governance groups (e.g. benefits/ risks/ dependencies, etc).

• Strong knowledge of Project Management methodologies, frameworks, techniques and tools.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills (verbal and written).

• Experience with Data Analytics tools (e.g. PowerBI) and Work Management tools (e.g. JIRA) is highly desirable.

• Relevant Tertiary qualifications.  

Be More
Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
Why RBA?
The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people. Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward. Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.

Application Close :

April 25, 2025

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