Senior Portfolio Management Advisor - Assistant Director - EY GDS | ErnstYoung Job

Job Description

Senior Portfolio Management Advisor - Assistant Director - EY Global Delivery Services

Job Summary:
The Talent Innovation & Analytics (TIAT) Team is seeking an experienced portfolio and project management professional with strong business consulting, strategic planning, governance, and stakeholder management capabilities. This role oversees portfolio management, intake and prioritization, resource and capacity planning, governance, and delivery oversight for strategic Talent initiatives across the United States.
The successful candidate will serve as a senior advisor to Talent stakeholders and TIAT team members, translating business demand into a prioritized, actionable portfolio. The role will provide visibility into priorities, capacity, risks, and dependencies; support informed investment and resource decisions; and establish consistent processes and operating rhythms that enable effective execution.
This position requires strong business acumen, portfolio and project management expertise, problem-solving, executive communication, relationship management, and technical fluency. The role will collaborate across U.S. and international teams to strengthen portfolio transparency and accountability while enabling initiatives that drive innovation, efficiency, transformation, and measurable business value.

Key Functions and Responsibilities
I.    Portfolio Strategy & Governance
•    Manage the TIAT portfolio to ensure initiatives remain aligned with organizational priorities, available capacity, and expected business value.
•    Establish and facilitate portfolio governance, prioritization reviews, and operating rhythms that enable transparency, consistency, accountability, and timely decision-making.
•    Develop and maintain portfolio roadmaps, capacity plans, prioritization frameworks, and executive reporting that provide visibility into project health, resources, risks, dependencies, and value realization.
•    Balance strategic value, innovation, operational needs, capacity, risk, and delivery feasibility when informing portfolio recommendations and trade-offs.

II.    Intake & Demand Management
•    Manage the end-to-end intake and demand process for analytics, automation, AI, technology, and process transformation requests.
•    Facilitate discovery with stakeholders to understand business problems, desired outcomes, requirements, risks, and opportunities.
•    Evaluate and prioritize requests based on strategic alignment, expected value, feasibility, complexity, resource requirements, risk, and delivery capacity.
•    Translate complex or ambiguous business needs into clearly defined opportunities, requirements, roadmaps, and delivery plans.

III.    Project Delivery & Capacity Management
•    Oversee multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, monitoring timelines, milestones, resources, quality, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations to support successful delivery.
•    Coordinate workload planning, prioritization, and capacity management across project management and ringfenced technical resources, balancing business priorities with delivery commitments.
•    Establish and maintain consistent project management standards, governance practices, reporting expectations, and delivery methodologies across the portfolio.
•    Proactively address risks, issues, dependencies, and capacity constraints while continuously improving delivery processes to strengthen quality, efficiency, predictability, and stakeholder experience.

IV.    Business Consulting & Technology Enablement
•    Serve as a strategic advisor to Talent stakeholders, helping identify opportunities for innovation, process improvement, analytics, automation, AI, and technology-enabled transformation.
•    Facilitate workshops, process reviews, and stakeholder discussions to challenge assumptions, clarify business needs, evaluate options, and shape practical recommendations.
•    Partner with business and technical teams to translate requirements into functional solution designs and scalable delivery approaches that meet quality, security, governance, adoption, and operational requirements.
•    Develop business cases, recommendations, project charters, implementation roadmaps, process documentation, governance standards, adoption plans, and executive-ready communications supporting successful decision-making and implementation.

V.    Stakeholder Partnership & Continuous Improvement
•    Build and maintain trusted relationships across Talent, the Talent Enablement Center, Virtual Talent Hub, reporting and analytics teams, project resources, technical delivery teams, and other key stakeholders.
•    Synthesize complex portfolio and project information into clear, decision-oriented insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
•    Promote effective collaboration, accountability, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning across project and delivery teams.
•    Continuously assess and enhance portfolio, project, and delivery practices to increase efficiency, strengthen execution, improve stakeholder experience, and maximize business value.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements:
•    Advanced knowledge of portfolio, program, and project management, including intake, prioritization, governance, demand management, capacity planning, risk management, and resource planning.
•    Ability to partner across business and technical teams to connect strategic priorities with delivery capacity, translating business needs into solutions across analytics, automation, AI, technology, and process transformation.
•    Strong business consulting and analysis capabilities, including requirements gathering, stakeholder discovery, process analysis, documentation, solution evaluation, and roadmap development.
•    Demonstrated ability to connect organizational priorities to portfolio decisions, resource allocation, sequencing, and investment recommendations.
•    Experience establishing and maintaining portfolio governance, project management standards, reporting practices, and delivery methodologies.
•    Strong analytical capabilities with the ability to synthesize complex project, portfolio, capacity, and business information into actionable insights and recommendations.
•    Strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies, including project planning, testing, deployment, change management, and adoption.
•    Ability to understand complex business and technical needs and partner with technical resources to shape practical, scalable solutions.
•    Strong executive presence, written and verbal communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive decisions.
•    Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities, risks, dependencies, and workstreams while maintaining organizational alignment.
•    Strong relationship management skills with experience working across cross-functional, global, and distributed teams.
•    Knowledge of Talent and HR processes, workforce strategy, people analytics, and HR technology preferred.
•    Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, judgment, and ability to operate effectively in complex and ambiguous environments. 
Other Technical Requirements: 
•    Working knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate Online, Power Pages), with the ability to evaluate potential applications and collaborate effectively with technical teams.
•    Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, AI-enabled productivity tools, agentic AI concepts, or similar technologies.
•    Experience with HR technologies such as Workday, SuccessFactors, PeopleSoft, Taleo, or similar systems preferred.
•    Experience with business intelligence, workflow automation, reporting, collaboration platforms, and data visualization tools.
 
Job Requirements:
Education: 
•    Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Analytics, Data Management, Computer Science, Project Management, or a related field required.
•    PMP, PgMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or equivalent certification preferred.
 
Experience:  
•    8+ years of progressive project, program, or portfolio management experience.
•    5+ years leading project teams and managing complex portfolios.
•    Experience managing both business and technical initiatives.
•    Experience operating within PMO and governance structures.
•    Experience leading global or distributed teams.
•    Experience supporting technology, analytics, automation, AI, or transformation programs.

What Success Looks Like in Year One:
•    Improved portfolio visibility, governance, and executive reporting.
•    Implemented effective capacity planning across project management and Ringfence resources.
•    Increased project throughput while strengthening delivery quality and predictability.
•    Established consistent portfolio and project management practices that strengthen accountability and execution.
•    Enabled scalable delivery of Innovation & Analytics services across TEC and U.S. Talent.
•    Developed a sustainable operating model that effectively balances strategic demand, technical capacity, risk, and business value.