Job Description

FINANCIAL PROGRAMME MANAGER
- Inside IR35
- 12 months + extensions
- Site working required in Gloucester
- Inside IR35
- DV Clearance required

The Financial Programme Manager service supports our most senior clients with the expertise and understanding needed to address the more complex challenges they face, from implementing financial and programme management processes to providing informed guidance on investment and organisational design. This role can operate independently or in a small team delivering solutions for the Client across a full range of technical competencies: Financial, Delivery focus, Strategic insight, Business Case authoring, Risk/Issue Management, Operating Model design, business change and critical friend advice/guidance.

- Critical friend - providing internal scrutiny of the case for new programmes, or high-risk changes to existing programmes. You will provide an alternative lens in the review of data, and provide advice, encouragement, and the ability to challenge rigorously where required.

- Subject Matter Expert - able to define appropriate procedures or standards within the project management discipline, successfully implement new methods to transform delivery, and advise on suitable metrics and performance levels for ongoing management.

- Transformation innovator - bringing additional leadership and expertise in the delivery of cutting edge organisational, capability or technology focused transformation and change.

- Integrator - understanding the needs of senior management by providing them with the focused information needed to drive forward the strategic aims of the organisation whilst also ensuring that project teams are appropriately empowered and directed to ensure delivery.

Skills and experience
- Experienced Consultancy skills.
- Comfortable and competent with Excel.
- Attention to detail - an innate preference for completeness and exactness.
- Able to listen and question effectively and communicate with confidence.
- Good stakeholder engagement and people management skills.
- Comfortable engaging with and influencing Senior Client Leaders.
- Design, production, manipulation of graphs to get a clear message across, desirable.
- Competence with Power BI, desirable.
- Competence with Visual Basic, desirable.

Responsibilities
- Provide Portfolio Office Financial governance supporting a 2* organisation.
- Support the Portfolio Office SPP Finance Manager/Analyst.
- Work with internal stakeholders on a monthly basis to collate financial data - Liaising with 14 PCOs and Delivery Leads
- Work with external stakeholders to understand and support their processes to deliver the data needed.
- Develop processes to improve the collection of finance data from a disparate group of stakeholders.
- Engage with external stakeholders to collate financial data, ensuring it is both accurate and detailed.
- Process collated data to assure accuracy of reporting, identifying issues and rectifying to assure the monthly report.
- Generating reporting and visual aids to assist in financial analysis.

As an individual
- Positive attitude, able to motivate teams to find solutions to challenging problems.
- Well-developed stakeholder engagement and people management skills.
- Be self-motivated and confident, with strong people skills.
- Be able to gain client trust and identify opportunities for adding further value to the client relationship.
- Encourage collaboration.
- Be an excellent communicator, verbal (ability to listen) and written (able to write concisely) including the production (where required) of P3M documents/products.
- Be focused on outcomes.
- Able to work under pressure and to meet challenging deadlines.

To be considered, please send through an updated CV.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.

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