Senior Operational Assurance Manager

2 weeks ago

London, UK, United Kingdom HS2 Full time
Job Description

Base salary: £53850 pa to c.£67300 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of XX% 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.

As a Senior Operational Assurance Manager you will support the Head of Operational and Corporate Assurance in the leadership of operational assurance activity both business wide, and across the project, setting clear expectations for implementation and delivery across the organisation. This role is to work with operational assurance practitioners in the business and across delivery to help the mature their functions, provide business level guidance on procedures and reporting and help us to all deliver right first time outputs.

About the role:
  • Support and maintain the development and management of a risk based and proportionate operational assurance regime to deliver right first-time outputs across the project and business
  • Be responsible for the operational assurance functions in developing their maturity plans, supporting systems, processes, management information and reporting to enable an efficient and effective self-assurance regime
  • Establish an integrated assurance regime in delivery that ensures our contractors' self assurance regime, and our interactions with it, are appropriate, effective and deliver right first time outputs
  • Undertake operational assurance mapping and planning reviews to provide confidence to the business that LoD1 is working effectively and assuring the correct activities
  • Conduct analysis of operational assurance outputs across the business and project to identify cross cutting trends and themes and then work with appropriate functional leads to deliver remediation plans
  • Be responsible for the delivery of specific projects/initiatives to implement and embed the HS2 operational assurance policy, strategy, procedures and reporting format across the organisation.
  • Manage reviews into compliance with assurance policies and procedures, and the integration of assurance control activities across HS2
  • Implement related policy, strategy, procedures and reporting formats for operational assurance across all aspects of HS2 the programme ensuring all assurance stages are understood and that improvement recommendations are implemented, as appropriate
  • Contribute to the development of assurance engagement and training materials that support delivery of effective assurance throughout the HS2 programme; deliver training to colleagues, support partners, and suppliers, as appropriate
  • Maintain good working relationships with partners (e.g. Department for Transport, Network Rail, P-Rep, JVs), other assurance providers within and outside HS2 Ltd
  • 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

About you:

Skills:
  • Skilled in distilling information from multiple sources and turning it into clear written materials
  • Ability to influence and negotiate with senior colleagues
  • Ability to engage with and manage stakeholders in our supply chain and business on sensitive issues
  • Management skills, working on multiple activities simultaneously and prioritise the most critical activities to agreed deadlines.

Knowledge:
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • Application of cross functional assurance of project delivery
  • Application of a range of assurance activities, tools and techniques
  • Knowledge of best practice in assuring project and programme delivery
  • Professional assurance qualifications (e.g. Audit) or equivalent
  • Knowledge of matrix organisations and programme delivery
  • Knowledge of relevant interfaces for similar infrastructure projects

Type of experience:
  • Experience of delivering assurance across a major programme, or a complex organisation, with multiple stakeholders
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams to deliver common objectives in a matrix environment
  • Assurance, internal control or audit experience within both the private and public sector is preferable

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.

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.

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