We are looking for a Principal Business Case Assurance Manager to join our Assurance Team.

Location: RG7 4PR , located between Reading and Basingstoke

AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application. Up to three days on site.

Salary Band starts at: £59,020 to £68,000 (Negotiable depending on experience)

Introducing the Role:

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.

We’d Love to See:

Through experience we need you to demonstrate:

• 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.

Qualifications:

• Degree or equivalent is desirable but not essential
• Membership of an appropriate professional body
• APM Practitioner qualification

We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point below, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

Important things you need to know:

• Interviews are 90 minutes onsite (preferred) or TEAMs during working hours and will include a presentation

We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during your recruitment journey. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations.

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Next steps:

Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

Important things you need to know:

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.