Business Operations Support Officer

Summer-Browning Associates are currently supporting our Central Government client who are seeking a Business Operations Support Officer on an initial 9 month contract.

Service Location: London (2 days p/w)

You'll be a key part of the Executive Office and play a critical part in ensuring that all of the underpinning business functions are managed effectively. You'll be acting as deputy for the Business Management lead, supporting the management of finances, including monitoring and reporting and ensuring join up with the corporate centre. In addition, you'll be working closely with Service Owners on both spending review, and delivery monitoring and tracking. You'll work with central corporate teams to follow best practice and iterate processes through a continuous improvement model.

You'll have experience of financial, procurement and resourcing practices, as well as an excellent understanding of operational delivery, organisational governance and management information reporting.

As a Business Operations Support Officer, you'll be involved with:

• Business planning: supporting the annual and quarterly business planning process, ensuring budget actuals and forecasts are correct, and dependencies across the multiple directorates are captured
• Work with Service Owners to undertake forward planning of resource needs and ensure resourcing requirements are met by managing the recruitment process for civil servants and contractors, where appropriate
• Performance reporting: ensuring the production and delivery of high-quality performance reports on a regularly basis, using agreed methodologies, ensuring that the evidence is accurate and reliable
• Portfolio management: develop and maintain a comprehensive view of all ongoing projects and programmes within the directorate
• Managing the Reward and Recognition and Learning and Development process, ensuring we remain within budget and carry out analysis to ensure even distribution across the community and grade.

We're interested in people who:

• Have a track record of delivery through collaboration and partnering in complex environments, including evidence of organisational skills, high personal impact and judgement working with stakeholders
• Demonstrate experience in KPI management including monitoring and reporting
• Demonstrate experience in analysing management information; identifying patterns or themes and extracting the key data to provide valuable intelligence.
• Have experience in change and project management, and are experienced in working in an agile and/or digital environment
• Are competent in budget management, planning, forecasting and risk identification combined with excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills combined with a clear understanding of how to present complex information in a clear and understandable way to gain decisions.

NB: The successful applicant should be eligible for SC level vetting.

To apply, please submit latest CV for consideration