Employer: Advantage Resourcing Salary: £500.00 – £650.00 per day Date Added: 13/12/2023
Business Case Manager
6 month contract with a Ltd Co
3 days in Cumbria and 2 remote
The role is likely to be outside IR35 but the final decision will be made after a Qdos assessment
You will be responsible for:
Generating modelling analysis and creating support material to allow the project to make informed decisions and develop Business Cases, and specifically the Financial and Economic Cases
Produce insightful analysis to inform change: focus on ‘value add’ areas
Drive savings through proactively identifying opportunities for efficiencies and managing benefits
Capture Sustainability and Social Value, and the measurement/reporting thereof
Critically assess and make informed recommendations, identifying the main options and rationale
Responsible for (establishing) and managing the options appraisal process
Drive the management of all reporting relating to Options, an reporting with clarity and confidence through either written or verbal presentations
Prepare reports on outcomes from the Return on Investment and options appraisal outputs, ensuring that management reports routinely inform and support a wide range of strategic and operational investment decisions
Assist in fully implementing, utilising and maintaining a Return on Investment view, including links to the Benefits Realisation process
Work with the wider team to maximise the effectiveness and efficiency of resources
Supporting the development of other colleagues, through informal training and skills transfer sessions
Experience, Skills and Knowledge: Essential:
Proven analytical and sceptical mindset with an ability to model solutions to complex problems.
Experience of delivering the Business Case analysis for complex projects and programmes including:
Ability to challenge and influence to ensure that requirements align to scope to deliver planned strategic programme outcomes
Understanding of Green Book, and experience in business case development to justify investment and make the case for change
Undertake Group wide options appraisals valuations and financial modelling at all levels of P3M based on validated data outputs, making reasonable judgements to inform decisions over and above pure data outputs.
Critically assess and make informed recommendations, identifying the main options and rationale
Implement the decision and monitoring the performance of the decision outcome.
Responsible for (establishing) and managing the options appraisal process.
A wider understanding of non-financial benefits, specifically sustainability and social value
Excel skills to scope, specify and build a model in line with Best Practice Modelling
Preferred:
Previous experience of working with Policing, National Security or Defence, and/or a regulatory driven environment
Analysing data and the ability to provide efficiency insights and bring data to life through different presentational outputs – eg business reporting in Tableau or PowerBI
Experience of using collaborative software such as Skype, Confluence, Sococo etc.
Understanding of the MODs (or similar organisation) CADMID cycle and gated approvals process
Previous experience of delivering within a change management / transformation programme
Knowledge of key financial indicators like RoI, IRR, NPV and how a P&L and Cashflow operate
Strategic-level thinking, able to define and influence strategic decisions
Assist in fully implementing, utilising and maintaining a Return on Investment view, including links to the Benefits Realisation process
Understanding of Business Analysis frameworks, value cycles, business processes and business requirements, and applying these appropriately.
