Senior Policy and Process Manager

Base salary: £54878 pa to £64562 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% 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 the Senior Policy & Process Manager you will lead the development, maintenance and continuous improvement of HS2's Cost Assurance system, including the policies, processes, governance arrangements and control framework that collectively provide confidence that costs are managed in line with Managing Public Money requirements.

About the role:

- Develop, implementation and maintain the Cost Assurance architecture, ensuring policies, governance arrangements, processes and controls operate as an integrated and coherent Cost Assurance control framework.

- Ensure the Cost Assurance framework supports compliance with Managing Public Money principles and provides evidence to support the Accounting Officer in discharging their responsibilities.

- Drive integration of Cost Assurance controls with wider organisational processes including Commercial, Finance, Project Controls, Risk and Counter-Fraud functions.

- Define and clear assurance accountabilities and ensure effective integration between the Three Lines of Defence

- Provide expert advice and guidance to delivery teams, functional teams and supply chain partners on the application of policies and processes.

- Monitor legislative, regulatory and industry developments and ensure Cost Assurance frameworks remain compliant with relevant standards and obligations.

- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and drive implementation of enhancements that strengthen governance, efficiency and assurance outcomes.

- Promote simplicity and proportionality, ensuring Cost Assurance requirements are integrated into existing business processes wherever possible and avoid unnecessary duplication

- Support the Head of Cost Assurance Strategy in delivering strategic objectives, governance requirements and departmental accountabilities.

About you:

Skills:

- Strong policy development and process design skills.

- Ability to map, analyse and improve complex end-to-end business processes.

- Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.

- Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce clear and concise documentation.

- Ability to develop and deliver training programmes and guidance materials.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.

Knowledge:

- Governance, assurance and internal control frameworks.

- Managing Public Money principles and public sector assurance environments.

- Understanding of the Three Lines of Defence Assurance Models.

- Cost assurance, commercial management and programme controls environments.

- Policy and procedure development methodologies.

- Understanding of Integrated Management Systems and assurance processes.

Type of experience:

- Experience developing and implementing governance, policy and process frameworks within complex organisations.

- Experience working across multiple business functions to deliver process improvement and control enhancements.

- Experience gathering, analysing and translating business requirements into practical procedures and working instructions.

- Experience providing advice and guidance to senior stakeholders.

- Experience operating within Commercial/Finance/Cost Control in a large-scale infrastructure, construction, public sector or regulated environments.

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.

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Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.