17 AWE plc jobs in England & Wales

The Business Case Assurance Team, reporting to the CFO via the Finance Director, is crucial for investment approval and governance. They develop, implement, and manage the end-to-end business case assurance, collaborating with the business, PMO, and other functions to ensure robust business cases. The team provides guidance on the appropriate form of business case and supports the commissioning of assurance reviews. Depending on the value and lifecycle of the proposed investment, this may include an Integrated Assurance and Approvals Plan (IAAP), Strategic Outline Case (SOC), Outline Business Case (OBC), or Full Business Case (FBC), adhering to JSP655, HMT Green Book, and Managing Public Money principles.,

• Leading the team, providing line management, staff development, and upward reporting as needed.
• Maintaining and improving the business case assurance process, embedding it into AWE's ways of working.
• Enhancing the business case assurance pipeline, offering advice and guidance to stakeholders on the assurance process.
• Developing and rolling out a training and Learning from Experience (LFE) programme for all AWE staff and stakeholders involved in the production assurance and governance of business cases.
• Keeping and refining a self-assessment checklist for the business case assurance process to support both internal and external audit activities.
• Providing coordinated support to the business for drafting appropriate and proportionate IAAPs and setting up configuration control and audit.
• Developing and rolling out business case assurance data, reporting tools, and a management information dashboard to meet line management, customer, and stakeholder requirements.
• Engaging with assurance stakeholders proactively, ensuring you stay fully updated with the latest proposed business cases.
• Building and maintaining working relationships with AWE and DNO approvals and assurance, as well as the wider Defence assurance and scrutiny communities.
• Offering guidance and advice to project teams on the requirements and development of business cases, using organizational templates and the HMT 5 case model.
• Ensuring projects or activities have appropriate levels of assurance for their complexity, following local guidance on types of assurance activities and recording them in management documents as required.
  
  Highly evolved leadership skills are essential to be successful in this role. Your application should evidence task management, coaching, developing and motivating a team., Ability to identify, investigate, evaluate and implement improved ways of working
• Ability to take decisions and solve complex business problems
• A strong focus on efficiency, innovation and quality
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong focus on customers and partners and ability to build and sustain strong relationships
• Leadership that inspires and motivates others
• Ability to manage yourself and workload
The following experience would be desirable but not essential:
• Business Analysis and/or applying Continuous Improvement methodologies
• Writing or reviewing business cases and undertaking project assurance, review, or scrutiny.
• Project delivery, working with internal and external users and stakeholders
• Suitable for an individual with experience in a project support, PMO, or portfolio support function., Degree or equivalent is desirable but not essential
• Membership of an appropriate professional body
• APM Practitioner qualification
  
  Salary Band starts at: 59,020 to 68,000 (Negotiable depending on experience)