Senior ACA Manager

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Job Description

Base salary: £54878 pa to £64562 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% 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.

The Senior Cost Assurance manager oversees and supports the application of LoD1 Cost Assurance across delivery. This role holds HS2 commercial teams and Po6 CV auditors to account for their performance and decision[1]making. This role ensures findings, issues and risks are dealt with in a compliant and defendable way and provides confidence that HS2 is not overpaying contractors within the terms of the contracts. This role monitors and reports on the robustness of LoD0 (Tier 1) and LoD1 Cost Assurance in practice and recommends actions for improving controls to ensure that Cost Assurance is being applied in a risk-based intelligent manner.

About the role:

• Lead the coordination and planning of CVA activity across delivery areas in conjunction with Po6 and HS2 Commercial teams.
• Manage and chair Cost Assurance performance reviews to drive progress and to ensure CVA findings and related issues and risks are being dealt with in a compliant, defendable and auditable way.
• Provide expertise and guidance to HS2 delivery teams in the development of their LoD1 ACA plans and the practical application of the Cost Assurance strategy and controls.
• Monitor and report on the overall health of LoD0 and LoD1 Cost Assurance across delivery
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and lesson learning across contracts and delivery areas to inform enhanced and consistent application of Cost Assurance in delivery.

About you:

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Experience in commercial/financial roles with a strong understanding of NEC contracts and supply-chain management.
• An ability to manage, influence and maintain strong collaborative relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.
• Analyse and interpret complex financial and commercial information from different sources to support and challenge commercial decision-making.
• Ability to communicate complex technical information in a clear and understandable way to a range of audiences.
• Experience of delivering risk-based assurance and governance across major projects
• The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

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.

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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.