Finance and Business Manager

Description

Finance and Business Manager About The Role - Managing project finances and providing input to business cases - Supporting delivery managers, leading on costing initiatives and new activities, validating supplier costings using cross government benchmarking - Negotiating and managing cross-government Memorandum of Understanding; agreeing Defra costs for shared sites and services - Monitoring, forecasting and reporting on spend against budget - Writing business cases and reports to committees and to HMT as needed - Managing team resourcing, ensuring vacancies are identified, defined and filled at key points - Managing relationships with contractor agencies and the resourcing team - Supporting interview process and inductions - Leading on staff engagement and corporate engagement initiatives - Represent the team on corporate and programme wider activities and forums, feeding back and building a collaborative approach within the team - Support the relationship with internal and external project stakeholders. Identify and manage collaborative relationships. Actively engage senior level support when required. - Lead on delivery assurance and lessons learnt - Lead on co-ordination of reviews, audits and inspections - Communicate project vision and status effectively, using established meetings such as the project and programme boards. Ensure visibility of project status to appropriate stakeholders. - Ensure that on-going service management is in place post go-live of the project.