IT Business Performance Manager

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Job Description

Base salary: £34650vpa to c.£40750 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As the IT Business Performance Manager you will be responsible for executing the IT's single and multi-year financial planning, budgeting and forecasting activities to drive business performance and benefit realisation. The role manages IT's finances to ensure optimal business performance and value optimization from IT spend.

About the role:

• Develop financial plans and forecasts in collaboration with IT SLT and the Finance Business Partner.
• Collate required financial data and reports for analysis and to facilitate decision-making.
• Advise IT stakeholders on financial planning, budgeting, costing, accounting and charging using recognised accounting practices and standards.
• Assist with identifying and calculating process, service, project, and component costs to feed into HS2 IT financial plans and forecasts.
• Collate required financial data and reports for analysis and to support wider decision making within HS2 IT
• Support the monitoring of information quality and ensure information provided is suitable for analysis and controlling, managing, and recording IT costs.
• Develop periodic variance and trend analysis and insight, including the identification of cost reduction opportunities and financial risks.
• Prepare operational planning data for single and multi-year financial planning
• Execute Purchase Order and invoicing processes within HS2 IT
• Monitor benefits realised from contracts and raise where relevant when expected outcomes are not met
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About you:

Skills:

• Financial management. Financial awareness, such as an understanding of accruals and prepayments, with an ability to interpret and prioritise transactional information.
• Benefit realisation. Ability to identify specific metrics to measure benefits and communicate the value delivered from IT spend
• Collaboration. Ability to work collaboratively both within IT and with Directorates outside of IT in relation to operational transactions.
• Data analysis. Analysing data to provide useful management information to key stakeholders using relevant tools.
• Stakeholder communication. Communication skills, such as producing monthly reports, discussion with IT SLT budget holders.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of ERP systems
• Knowledge of business financials and reporting processes
• Knowledge of standard SLAs and vendor contracts
• Understanding of the product environment, and its impact on supplier contract management
• Some knowledge of the industry and functional areas

Type of Experience:

• Experience compiling and analysing operational forecasts and planning, including producing complex visuals using relevant tools
• Experience working with corporate financials in a complex, multi-vendor environment
• Experience with managing business performance for an IT function, working with senior stakeholders.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process (youtube.com)

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.