Project Analyst (Portfolio Governance & Oversight)

Position Summary

Project Analyst (Portfolio Governance & Oversight)

Summary: Owns portfolio-level governance oversight across all active projects and PM toolsets, ensuring compliance with standards, accurate reporting, and effective decision support for leadership. Works in close partnership with PMs and Project Specialists to maintain portfolio integrity and drive continuous improvement in governance processes.

Core Purpose: Provides governance leadership across the project portfolio, ensuring consistent application of standards, transparency in reporting, and initiative-taking escalation of risks. Uses data and metrics from PMs and Specialists to advise leadership and enable resource and prioritization decisions.

Primary Responsibility:

• Create and Maintain portfolio-wide governance frameworks, ensuring all projects adhere to established processes and checkpoints.
• Monitor governance compliance across projects, regardless of whether a PM or Project Specialist is managing the plan.
• Consolidate project-level data from planning tools into portfolio dashboards and reports for leadership.
• Conduct governance reviews at key milestones and provide audit-ready documentation.
• Analyze cross-project trends in delivery, resourcing, and compliance to identify systemic issues.
• Recommend improvements to governance standards, planning processes, and reporting methods.
• Serve as a governance subject matter expert, advising PMs and Specialists on process interpretation and compliance requirements.
• Provide leadership with clear, actionable insights on project health, prioritization, risk exposure, and portfolio priorities.
• Maintain tool workflow and use case governance

Key Differentiators:

• Operates at the portfolio oversight level, not tied to a single project’s plan.
• Ensures governance consistency regardless of project management model or PM group (PM-led, Specialist-led, or hybrid).
• Influences strategic portfolio decisions through data, trends, and compliance analysis.

Skillsets required:

• Governance Framework expertise (PM standards, checkpoints, portfolio governance processes)
• PM tool (Planview) Expertise
• Collaboration and Communication, Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, Problem Solving
• Time Management, Organization, Diligence
• Adaptability, Self Starter
• Data Analysis and Reporting – design, consolidate and interpret data into dashboards (using Power BI)
• Process Engineering

Qualifications

Education

Bachelors degree in related field.

Years of Related Experience

Years of experience 5 to 8 years

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Scientific Games, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “SG”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain SG employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure SG complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, SG requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with SG (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to SG conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

SG is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.