Senior Associate - Portfolio Analyst

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
Reporting to Agile Operating Model Transformation Lead , you will serve as a central orchestrator of portfolio planning, tracking, governance, and analytics. In this role, you'll collaborate across technology, strategy, finance, and delivery teams to ensure aligned priorities, transparent reporting, and efficient execution. Importantly, you will also support Value Stream Portfolio Managers by enabling processes and tooling adoption that improve planning, execution, and reporting discipline.
What You'll Do
Portfolio Oversight & Strategic Alignment• Support quarterly and annual planning cycles, coordinating alignment across technology domains and value streams.• Maintain a portfolio calendar, governance rhythms, and status cadences to ensure visibility and structure.• Facilitate or support key ceremonies-planning syncs, capacity forums, and executive updates-enabling data-driven decision-making.• Track and communicate portfolio KPIs such as delivery velocity, predictability, milestone health, value realization, and capacity utilization.• Collaborate with Finance and Product Management to reconcile budgets, actuals, projected burn, and funding alignment.• Identify dependencies, risks, and resource conflicts-coordinating resolution or escalating as needed.
Analytics & Reporting• Aggregate program and value stream data into executive dashboards, heat maps, and insights using BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Smartsheet).• Ensure portfolio data integrity across systems (e.g., Jira, Tempo, Apptio, Planview, Aha!), ensuring accuracy, completeness, and traceability.• Deliver scheduled and ad hoc reporting for leadership, PMO sponsors, and business stakeholders.• Monitor trend metrics and early indicators (e.g., flow, throughput, utilization) to uncover delivery inefficiencies or bottlenecks.
Governance & Process Enablement• Uphold governance standards (prioritization frameworks, funding approvals, reporting cadences) consistently across initiatives.• Refine portfolio management processes for clarity, repeatability, and enterprise-wide adoption.• Support Value Stream Portfolio Managers by enabling process and tooling best practices-creating templates, dashboards, and workflows tailored to value stream needs while maintaining enterprise consistency.
Cross-Team Collaboration, Capacity Management & Engagement• Partner across value streams to align plans, capacity, and sequencing of shared dependencies.• Assist planning forums to ensure strategic goals are synchronized with delivery timing and resource availability.• Communicate trade-offs among scope, resources, and timelines to set realistic expectations with stakeholders.• Maintain capacity and resource models that forecast demand and highlight constraints across skill areas.• Provide insights on workforce availability, utilization, and allocation to support staffing and investment decisions.• Identify and mitigate shared-resource conflicts to optimize throughput and delivery predictability.• Actively contribute to Portfolio Communities of Practice, sharing learnings, improving processes, and evolving tooling.• Champion transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement across delivery forums and planning cycles.
What You'll Bring• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, or related field. Advanced degree (MBA) preferred.• 4-5+ years in portfolio, program, or PMO management, especially supporting enterprise-wide delivery.• Hands-on experience with portfolio systems (Clarity, Planview, Jira, Monday.dev), and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet).• Strong analytical fluency-skilled at turning data into decision-grade insights.• Proven track record coordinating across finance, technology, and business stakeholders in complex environments.• Excellent organizational, communication, and facilitation skills.• Curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset-eager to learn and help mature NYL's evolving operating model.
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $97,500-$139,500
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities-inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you'll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what's next, and your growth powers it.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.Click hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life's leadership in this space.
Recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.
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Job Requisition ID: 92583