Business Operations Lead
Duration: 9 Months
Rate: £600 per day
Location: Hybrid (London & remote)
IR35 Status: Inside
Start: ASAP
Role Overview:
A Business Operations Lead is required for our Government Client to be part of their Cyber Services team to build and maintain clear models for how financial data aligns between their corporate tools eg. Oracle and UKSBS and team tracking tools. UKSBS is a public sector shared services center which provides HR, Finance, Payroll, Procurement and IT Services. This area of the business plays a crucial role in enhancing efficiency and delivering value for money services within the public sector.
Responsibilities include:
As the Business Operations Lead you will track, manage and report financial information across their Cyber Services team, ensuring data accuracy and completeness at month end.
Produce high quality financial reports in collaboration with the finance business partner, supporting forecasting and budgeting cycles.
Review, raise and receipt purchase orders on their compliance tools, ensuring processes are efficient, traceable and compliant with departmental standards
Improve reconciliation of actuals and automating recurring finance processes to reduce manual intervention.
Support the end-to-end procurement process and contract management of 3rd party suppliers, ensuring value for money and compliance with commercial controls.
Contribute to the preparation of business cases and financial inputs for programme boards
Work closely with their central finance and commercial teams to ensure alignment on reporting standards, governance and approvals.
Essential Skills & Experience required
As the Business Operations Lead you will possess strong experience of using finance processes and data systems in a Central Government Department environment or wider public sector, including forecasting, budgeting, accruals, journals, invoicing and purchasing.
Experience in manipulating, analysing, and visualising data; confident using Excel, Google Sheets, Power BI, Power Apps, or Power Automate to create automated reports and workflows.
Experience of ensuring corporate systems accurately reflect the reality of what's happening within project teams
Experience supporting or managing procurement, contracting, and supplier management processes in a Central Government Department environment.
Experience of supporting Central Government Department procurement, including knowledge of Public Procurement Policy and commercial procurement frameworks and contracts.
Proficient in finance and resource management; a large proportion of this role will be to oversee forecasting and actual spend across.
Also to be knowledgeable on public sector procurement as you'll be involved in overseeing procurement as well.
The key areas that you will possess experience in for this role include finance/forecasting/budgeting/procurement/business cases and managing people.
Certes IT Service Solutions welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds
To apply for this role please email your CV to Joanne Stanley:
Certes Computing (and all of its subsidiary companies) is committed to promoting equality and diversity in its business operations.
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