Description
Company: Venesky-Brown's client
Location: Edinburgh
Contract Duration: Initial 12 month contract with option to extend
Rate: £250-£300/day (Outside IR35)
Work Arrangement: Based in Edinburgh - home working will be considered subject to attendance where needed
Responsibilities:
- Management and administration of finance processes within lab. Maintain finance workbook - identify and correct errors. Present finance data in understandable format, along with analysis, and proposed opportunities for adjusting budget variance. Ensure accuracy and consistency of finance data across multiple formats, and coherency of message. Liaise with department finance team on lab finance data.
- Tracking delivery progress within the lab, and using this understanding to draft progress tracking and reporting, ensuring quality of reporting and appropriateness for various stakeholders.
- Provide support to lab leads to prepare pack for Executive Actions Boards (EAB) and ensure actions for EAB are progressed.
- Maintain lab RAID log and escalate actions. Supporting effective risk and issue tracking, facilitating workshops, maintaining tracking.
- Become familiar with the internal governance framework - LOAD - and be an ambassador for cascading and embedding the use of the LOAD framework in labs and the wider community. Be a point of contact in the lab for coaching on LOAD framework.
- Facilitate the preparation and maintenance of the collateral for the Authority to Proceed Packs (ATPs) for each work stream as they move through the LOAD Framework.
- Collate, ready for presentation all of the necessary collateral needed for preparing the internal and external audit assessments within your lab.
- Facilitate meetings where required.
- Actively participate in all "Community of Practice" meetings and events (PMO).
- Understand value/benefits, measurements of value.
- Understand Azure DevOps or Jira/Confluence, have or develop ability to offer support to LAB team members; capability of generating reports as required.
- Understand relevant lab data; explore innovative ways of presentation to communicate with impact.
- Support compliance with relevant CDi organizational policies/procedures within labs.
- Arrange/facilitate full range project events eg external audits/stakeholder events.
- Where required arrange meetings; draft/collate/issue papers/agendas; provide minute taking role.
- Organise appropriate induction for all new starts in labs.
Essential Skills:
- Experience managing project level financial reporting; organising events eg audit or whole lab delivery events
- Good experience embedding governance within teams
- Good people skills/communication skills
- Ability to improvise/adapt
- Work under deadlines/manage workload/prioritise effectively
-Able act as "go-to" person within Labs regarding LOAD/audit/RAID questions/guidance
-Able explain area expertise clearly others
-Capable not only answering why things done but how
-Conficent report builder using available report building tools
Desirable Skills:
- Worked Agile delivery environments previously
- Understand language/terms/jargon assigned labs
- Experience Azure Dev Opps/or previous experience using Jira Confluence
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.