Governance & Assurance Lead

What you’ll be doing as a Governance & Assurance Lead

• Develop and implement prioritised governance & assurance reviews of several strategic programmes to evaluate the integrity of scope, cost, risk, time & outcome
• Drive performance improvement. Act as a critical friend to strategic sponsors/sub-programme managers to ensure best practice and highlight & challenge trends, performance, & deviation from strategic programme and sub-programme baselines.
• Develop and implement robust methodology to assure benefit & outcome delivery
• Ensure line of sight for funding back to the current plan
• Work with colleagues across PMO to ensure a consistent approach to QRF / budget
• Assure the change control of Strategic Intent documents (owned by the sponsor teams). Ensure alignment between change-controlled intent documents and delivery plans. Challenge and address inconsistency.
• Support other teams across PMO and across the wider business to deliver robust assurance and governance processes and systems, drive behaviour & best practice, and support the implementation of the strategic sponsorship model
• Optimise management of project / programme stage gate process in conjunction with PMO colleagues and sponsors

What you should bring to the role

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of portfolios and programmes governance and assurance
• Experience of delivering portfolio or programme governance and assurance processes and standards
• Ability to manage and provide value-added information and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including strategic sponsors
• Ability to make risk-based decisions where the parameters are unclear, and judgment is needed
• Experience of influencing and working across multidisciplinary teams
• Delivery of activities to build capability, improve efficiency and increase maturity
• Ability to manage complex portfolios and programmes, anticipating and managing high-level risks and uncertainties
• Experience in identifying and implementing robust business solutions in collaboration with teams

To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of portfolios and programmes governance and assurance
• Experience of delivering portfolio or programme governance and assurance processes and standards
• Ability to manage and provide value-added information and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including strategic sponsors
• Ability to make risk-based decisions where the parameters are unclear, and judgment is needed
• Experience of influencing and working across multidisciplinary teams
• Delivery of activities to build capability, improve efficiency and increase maturity
• Ability to manage complex portfolios and programmes, anticipating and managing high-level risks and uncertainties
• Experience in identifying and implementing robust business solutions in collaboration with teams

Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring

• Higher education, preferably in Business Management, Commercial, Engineering, Project Management or Finance-related subject
• Technical proficiency of IT solutions required to manage, control and report on project, programme and portfolio scope, schedule, resource requirements, budgets, risks, opportunities and issues, benefits, and quality
• Proficiency in project management methodologies and tools (EVM, risk management, scheduling software)

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary up to £75,000 per annum, depending on experience
• Annual Leave – 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Private Medical Health Care
• Car Allowance
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Access to a wide range of benefits for health, wellbeing, and finances, including annual health checks, physiotherapy and counselling, Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance

Base Location: Reading – Hybrid

Working Pattern or Hours: 36 hours

We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process.

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