Governance and Reporting Manager

**Who are we?**
We're the UK's largest water provider, with over 15 million customers to serve every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open. We make a difference daily to millions of customers by supplying?2.7 billion litres of waterto around 10 million homes.?? Our main role is to ensure customers can turn on the tap and get world-class drinking water 24/7.
We’re an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic, and we need you to help us to deliver an excellent service so we can continue to be there for our customers.
**About the role**
We’re seeking a diligent Governance and Reporting Manager to support and deliver successful projects and programmes in relation to outcomes, cost, risks and customer advocacy through the use of class-leading tools, data and processes. This is a Hybrid rolewhere you will initially be working remotely.
The Governance and Reporting Manager has responsibility for the overall programme and financial position to ensure that financial processes and governance is adhered to. You will be responsible for all performance reporting, both regulatory and internal aswell as maintaining an effective risk management and planning process.
Within this role, you will also act as the conscious of the programmes to provide the appropriate challenge and support whilst implementing best practices. You will provide support and counsel to the delivery functions to maximise the value for money of theirprojects whilst working with key internal stakeholders to ensure funding and programme viability is maintained.
**What you’ll be doing**:

- Managing and influencing a multi-functional team
- Delivering the programme on time and to cost, all within governance
- Providing updates and analytics on financial and operational performance
- Accurate and diligent reporting of financial and operational performance within the company and to external auditors
- Presentation at senior levels throughout the organisation on activities of the programme
- Managing a large stakeholder group and provide appropriate level updates
- Coordinating and responding to business-wide requests
- Providing central analytics, insight and reporting function
- Managing and controlling the formal risks & efficiency management process
- Providing central programme planning and controls, including financial forecasting and budget setting
- Coordinating with Commercial Team to effectively manage the contracts
- Setting baselines for financial and output KPIs and developing remedial action plans
- Benefits tracking and variance analysis
- Document & governance control

**What we’re looking for**:

- Experience leading a successful PMO or reporting, risk and governance team
- Successful financial background in budgeting and forecasting with an understanding of financial cycles & modelling - OPEX /CAPEX
- Extensive knowledge of business and understanding the significance of commercial constraints; has put together business justifications, business cases and risk/benefit profiles
- Extensive experience in management reporting
- Proven track record in managing a multimillion-pound and diverse portfolio
- Experience in executing a performance framework and governance structure
- Track record of driving performance and minimising cost.
- Design and delivery of business processes
- Business planning cycles and process

**Here’s why you should join us**
This is a great opportunity to gain exposure within the organisation and work with senior stakeholders across the business, ensuring that Wholesale Services change programmes are well defined, justified and successfully managed to enable the realisation ofbenefits stated in the business case.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing with the length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles, we’re moving to a hybrid approach where we’ll provide optionsaround working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall DiversityChampion and Disability.
Confident Leader and we’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
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