Finance and Business Manager

Concepts

• business, professional and specialist organisations
• finance and business manager
• business manager
• project finances
• delivery managers
• service management
• finance
• business cases
• senior level support
• resourcing team

Location

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.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 98110000 - Services furnished by business, professional and specialist organisations

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.
• Contract is suitable for VCOs.

Other Information

Please note that Defra procurement uses an E-tendering system for Procurement activities. This is currently provided by Bravo Solutions. To access appropriate tendering and contractual documents, please access the E-Tendering portal at https://defra.bravosolution.co.uk", ensuring that your registration includes "Defra". If you have any problems with this system, please contact Bravo on their telephone helpline number 0800 368 4850 or by emailing them at help@bravosolution.co.uk. n/a RM6160-Order Form-Venn_Redacted.pdf