Assurance Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 238083**Salary**:

- £36,735 - £41,100**Grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- BEIS - Business Sectors - Business Investment**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, SalfordAbout the job

**Summary**:
**Our Mission**

At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission

We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.

**Our Inclusive Environment**

We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

**Job description**:
The Business Investment Directorate’s Grant Delivery Team helps deliver major business grant and funding programmes, focused on economic shocks and leading Britain's recovery. The team brings together expertise in delivering major programmes, including policy delivery, programme, financial, and partnership management, analysis, and engagement and communications. During Covid 19 the team were responsible for working with over 300 Local Authorities to deliver grant schemes valued at nearly £27bn to local businesses. Following the successful delivery and closure of the schemes the team are now focused on reconciliation, assurance and debt recovery activity.

This role is an exciting opportunity to work on new and emerging high-profile initiatives as part of a support package recently announced by Government to meet the rising cost of living, including supporting the £12bn Energy Bills Support Scheme (EBSS) which will provide all domestic electricity customers with a grant to help with their bills.

The BID Grant Delivery Team will work with partners to support them to successfully deliver our schemes. The team are responsible for developing scheme guidance, delivering the grant payment and reconciling funds, assuring data, and ensuring accurate reporting is provided. For EBSS the team will work closely with Ofgem (The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets - the Government energy regulator for Great Britain) on compliance and enforcement.

We care about the work-life balance of our people and flexible working is available. We also offer structured personal development, progression opportunities and outstanding training to all of our people.

**Responsibilities**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Visible inclusive leadership & line management in line with the Civil Service leadership statement and BEIS priorities, working collaboratively across boundaries and teams.
- Supporting the delivery activities of the Assurance Team.
- Maintaining scheme grant assurance guidance, including drafting guidance text for post
- payment assurance system checks on funding.
- Supporting a range of assurance processes, reporting and audit preparation.
- Liaising with external contractors engaged to ensure assurance checks are completed in line with agreed milestones.
- Supporting the delivery of the department’s assurance process, sample checks and deep dives, including analysis of funding awarded at the transactional level.
- Raising queries with delivery partners to address data discrepancies and/or data quality issues via collaborative engagement with our Relationship Managers
- Flagging items for further investigation, conducting follow-up activity and maintaining a record of outcomes.
- Supporting wider assurance activities, including required preparation and input to NAO and GIAA audits.

**Skills and experience**

**Essential criteria**
- Strong organisational skills - able to simultaneously track multiple queries and lines of enquiry.
- Excellent document handling and data management skills, including the ability to maintain multiple datasets / spreadsheets efficiently and securely.
- Strong attention to detail and able to challenge or qu