Description:
The role has privileged access to senior business leaders, commercial negotiations and programmes.
You will support on discrete pieces of analytical work for the team, and assist in the data gathering of your allocated suppliers.
You will aggregate, interpret and present key financial, commercial and management information on the activity of Government’s Strategic Suppliers.
Job requirements include:
- Supporting the delivery of corporate resolvability assessments of suppliers of critical public services.
- Supporting the team in advising Government Departments, and where relevant the wider public sector, on preparation of insolvency scenarios and contingency plans to ensure continuity of supply where there are concerns regarding a supplier’s financial sustainability.
Person specification
- Analytical skills and experience of interpreting and using diverse and often incomplete information to make conclusions and identify risks is essential.
- Problem solving skills
- Inquisitive and proactive approach
- Using good interpersonal communication and stakeholder management skills to identify and flag issues to senior colleagues. (Communicating and influencing).
- Understanding of how you can support the Markets and Suppliers in understanding the strategic context and and seeking opportunities to use the team’s expertise to add value, influencing strategy inside and outside your organisation. (Seeing the big picture).
- Form effective relationships with people both internally and externally, from a range of diverse backgrounds, finding opportunities for sharing information and delivering objectives through a diverse range of stakeholders. (Working together)
- Use evidence and knowledge to consider alternative options, implications and risks of advice and decisions. (Making effective decisions).
- You will need to be adaptable, often working with uncertainty and with a range of other people to clarify strategies and plans and then communicating direction with clarity and enthusiasm.
Specialist Skills:
- Previous experience of monitoring financial performance of companies is desirable but not essential
- Qualifications and/or experience in the following areas are highly desirable:
- Corporate finance;
- Financial Analysis;
- Risk;
- Business continuity / disaster recovery planning;
- Companies/suppliers research and monitoring;
- Project management
- Outsourcing playbook knowledge is desirable