Total 25 finance banking insurance job vacancies in Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 8YF

Qualified Business Partner - Construction
Temp to Perm for the ideal candidate
£400 - £600 day rate (dependent on level of experience)
Initially, 3 months, but could become permanent for the right candidate.
Hybrid (Initial weeks in the office)
47.5 hours a week. There may be extra hours due to workload.



Reporting to the Finance Director, the Finance Business Partner will be responsible for the day-to-day operation and control of the Operating Unit's (Contract to Cash/Project based) financial reporting processes, including the month-end process and preparation of the quarterly forecast. Working closely with the FD, the FBP will: attend and provide scrutiny in project review meetings, be a key conduit between the OU leadership and projects, and provide timely and accurate financial information in accordance with company policies and procedures.
What you'll do:

• Oversee the production of the monthly management accounts (Order to Gross Income & Cash) ensuring accurate and timely reporting for review with the Finance Director and Commercial Director.
• Review project monthly Cost and Value Reconciliations, ensuring concepts such as project revenue, margin (POCC and earned), WIP, accruals, prepayments, and provisions are recorded, compliant with policy and procedures, and reported accurately by projects.
• Attend monthly project review meetings and quarterly project forecasting and reporting meetings, applying your existing knowledge of contract accounting and commercial awareness to scrutinise project performance.
• Assist with the production of the OU's quarterly forecasting pack, working closely with the FD and CD to ensure that risks, opportunities, project profit-take, BMW, bell curve, and phasing are all appropriately reflected and in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Review monthly project balance sheets to ensure they accurately reflect the true project position (operationally and commercially) and that key risks and opportunities on each project are understood.
• Review project cash positions (including approval of project bank account cash transfers) with project accountants to ensure cash to gross income differences are understood and communicated to commercial and operations teams on site.
• Build and develop relationships with operational and commercial leads to the extent that you are seen as a trusted finance business partner that ensures accountability and ownership of financial forecasts and reports for each project.
• Lead and develop a team of 4 direct line reports.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA) with experience of leading teams, particularly within construction/infrastructure.
• Experienced in long-term contract accounting within construction/infrastructure.
• Awareness of NEC contracts and options, with an ability to challenge commercial terminology and assumptions.
• The ability to deputise for the OU FD at meetings/events in their absence.
• Understanding and experience of CVR's.
• Experience of liaising directly with internal and external auditors on project accounting matters.
• Experience of influencing the decision-making of senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication and analytical skills with attention to detail and capable of seeing the big picture.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and IT skills - experience of ERP (Oracle) is desirable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to present to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

Hays EA is a trading division of Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited and acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Qualified Business Partner - Construction
Temp to Perm for the ideal candidate
£400 - £600 day rate (dependent on level of experience)
Initially, 3 months, but could become permanent for the right candidate.
Hybrid (Initial weeks in the office)
37.5 hours a week. There may be extra hours due to workload.



Reporting to the Finance Director, the Finance Business Partner will be responsible for the day-to-day operation and control of the Operating Unit's (Contract to Cash/Project based) financial reporting processes, including the month-end process and preparation of the quarterly forecast. Working closely with the FD, the FBP will: attend and provide scrutiny in project review meetings, be a key conduit between the OU leadership and projects, and provide timely and accurate financial information in accordance with company policies and procedures.
What you'll do:

• Oversee the production of the monthly management accounts (Order to Gross Income & Cash) ensuring accurate and timely reporting for review with the Finance Director and Commercial Director.
• Review project monthly Cost and Value Reconciliations, ensuring concepts such as project revenue, margin (POCC and earned), WIP, accruals, prepayments, and provisions are recorded, compliant with policy and procedures, and reported accurately by projects.
• Attend monthly project review meetings and quarterly project forecasting and reporting meetings, applying your existing knowledge of contract accounting and commercial awareness to scrutinise project performance.
• Assist with the production of the OU's quarterly forecasting pack, working closely with the FD and CD to ensure that risks, opportunities, project profit-take, BMW, bell curve, and phasing are all appropriately reflected and in accordance with company policies and procedures.
• Review monthly project balance sheets to ensure they accurately reflect the true project position (operationally and commercially) and that key risks and opportunities on each project are understood.
• Review project cash positions (including approval of project bank account cash transfers) with project accountants to ensure cash to gross income differences are understood and communicated to commercial and operations teams on site.
• Build and develop relationships with operational and commercial leads to the extent that you are seen as a trusted finance business partner that ensures accountability and ownership of financial forecasts and reports for each project.
• Lead and develop a team of 4 direct line reports.

What you'll bring to the role:

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, ACMA) with experience of leading teams, particularly within construction/infrastructure.
• Experienced in long-term contract accounting within construction/infrastructure.
• Awareness of NEC contracts and options, with an ability to challenge commercial terminology and assumptions.
• The ability to deputise for the OU FD at meetings/events in their absence.
• Understanding and experience of CVR's.
• Experience of liaising directly with internal and external auditors on project accounting matters.
• Experience of influencing the decision-making of senior stakeholders.
• Strong communication and analytical skills with attention to detail and capable of seeing the big picture.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and IT skills - experience of ERP (Oracle) is desirable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to present to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

Hays EA is a trading division of Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited and acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

• JOB TITLE: Driver Resolution Manager
• SALARY: £29431
• LOCATION(S): Watford
• HOURS: Full-time
• WORKING PATTERN: For the first 6 months you will be in office for 5 days a week and then move to hybrid, which involves spending at least three days per week at the Watford office site

About this Opportunity

To support and manage to resolve driver complaints or escalate to a Resolutions Manager where appropriate and ensure

About us / Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We're an award winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009. We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future. We're committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too. This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.

Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement. Offering all fuel types, prices and over 1000 cars to choose from all by leading manufacturers. Please visit for more information www.tuskerdirect.com

What you'll need

• Provide support to the Resolution Managers to enable them to respond to drivers timely and within set SLA's
• Respond to drivers who have provided feedback on Feefo
• Acknowledge newly submitted complaints with the driver, providing contact name and details of Resolution Manager who will be dealing with the case
• Complete KPI reports, monthly reports for service supplier KwikFit on NPS and CSAT scores
• Analyse data to determine complaint root cause and document findings
• To continuously improve our driver experience by analysing data from complaints and feedback
• To provide support to our drivers via a triage process by making outbound call to drivers who have provided negative feedback in customer satisfaction surveys or Trustpilot reviews

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Previous customer service experience is essential
• Excellent attention to detail
• Previous experience of dealing with complaints

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

* An annual performance-related bonus

* Share schemes including free shares

* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

* 22 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We'd love to hear from you.

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• JOB TITLE: Maintenance Controller
• SALARY: £33,982
• LOCATION: Croxley Business Park - Watford
• HOURS: Full-time
• WORKING PATTERN: For the first 6 months you will be in office for 5 days a week and then move to hybrid, which involves spending at least three days per week at the Watford office site.

About this Opportunity

Have you worked within the Motor industry within a service delivery role or have a mechanical background. If so, this could be the role for you.

As a Maintenance Controller you'll be responsible for the co-ordination of vehicle repairers and our suppliers to ensure a cost effective process and to ensure a great customer experience.

You'll be:

• The first point of resolution for vehicle related topics e.g. Breakdown, SMR, Tyre replacement, downtime management.
• Ensuring calls are answered within required timescales, complete worksheets, monitor downtime cases, Tyre approvals and any other team activity is dealt with efficiently.
• Manage, approve and audit all SMR (service, maintenance & repair) and Tyre requests ensuring adherence to the Tusker Maintenance Policy.
• Ensure all transactions are approved at the lowest possible cost price to Tusker.

About us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We're an award winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009. We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future. We're committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too. This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.

Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement. Offering all fuel types, prices and over 1000 cars to choose from all by leading manufacturers. Please visit for more information www.tuskerdirect.com

What you'll need

• Extensive knowledge of the repair and maintenance of motor vehicles (Cars & LCV's) both combustion engine & electric vehicles.
• Experience of working in a manufacturer's franchised dealership in both workshop & service desk environments.
• Strong customer service orientation & telephone negotiation / persuasion skills.
• Excellent communication skills with a confident and polite telephone manner
• Experience of working in a cost approval & audit function either in a lease co. or other similar organisation.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 24 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

Apply today and find out more.

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• JOB TITLE: Senior B2B Marketing Executive
• SALARY: £42,120- £51,480
• LOCATION(S): Watford
• HOURS: Full-time
• WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Watford site. During the training period we ask new starters to be in the office 5 days a week until they are competent and fully trained.

About this Opportunity

This role sits within a small Team that specialises in ensuring we deliver change across the business in a safe, compliant and efficient way. To support our continued growth and increased scale we need to resource ourselves to ensure we maintain our required ISO certifications as required by our customers as well as ensure our colleagues are best placed to serve our drivers and customers in a consistent manner, by the creation and embedding of required policies and procedures.

Your mission will be to manage the Tusker ISO audit process and lead all activities required to maintaining these certifications. In addition, you will be required to provide wider business support and subject matter expertise across various risk and compliance topics alongside the Compliance and Data Protection Manager.

The role will include policy creation, leading internal process audits, training staff and continuously improving our management systems to enable us to retain our required ISO certification, in conjunction with LBG. You will need to be extremely diligent, and detail focussed with the ability to plan coordinate and conduct internal audits of our Tusker processes, you will also serve as the primary contact and liaison for ISO matters with external auditors, suppliers and the wider group.

About us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We're an award-winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009. We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future. We're committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too. This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.

Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement. Offering all fuel types, prices and over 1000 cars to choose from all by leading manufacturers. Please visit for more information www.tuskerdirect.com

What you'll need

• Manage B2B campaigns online and offline from initial planning through to execution
• Utilise customer/prospect feedback to shape and advise on marketing activities and messaging
• Create marketing content to drive lead generation analysing campaign performance and identifying mailshot opportunities
• maintain Tusker's website, ensuring content is kept up to date and updating messaging as and when required
• Become a CRM superuser working to keep data up to date and using the system to plan events and activities
• Management of B2B Social Media sites such as Linked In including research of best practice, topical information and advice. Copywriting and designing content for newsletters and mailshots
• Providing monthly campaign report to show activity performance with ideas for improvement
• Management of telemarketing executives and new business opportunity database ensuring data is fit for purpose
• Maternity cover for sales support and B2B events

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience building and tracking campaigns
• Ability to plan and organise own workload, with the strong attention to detail necessary to ensure campaigns are executed thoroughly and competently
• Experience organising events and exhibitions to time and budget
• Ability to work under pressure with a focus on priorities
• Experience of lead generation activities
• Strong communication and presentation skills with high attention to detail is a must
• Results driven and constantly striving to achieve a better ROI
• Proactive self-starter with the ability to work independently

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We'd love to hear from you.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

• JOB TITLE: Order & Delivery Advisor
• SALARY: £29,431
• LOCATION(S): Watford
• HOURS: Full-time
• WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least three days per week, or 60% of our time, at one of our office sites. During the training period, we do ask new starters to be in the office 5 days a week until they are competent and fully trained.

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About this Opportunity

The main purpose of this role is to assist drivers in navigating the entire order fulfilment process and address any issues or concerns that may arise. Supporting drivers once an order is placed with a dealership until the point of delivery involves various responsibilities to ensure a smooth and efficient process. Here are some key tasks and responsibilities:

• Act as the primary point of contact for drivers and maintain regular communication via phone and email to update them on order status, and any changes or delays that may occur.
• Coordinate with various departments within the business, as well as our dealer network, to facilitate the smooth processing and delivery of orders. Collaborate with relevant teams to resolve any issues or obstacles that may hinder the delivery process.
• Respond promptly to driver enquiries, providing them with necessary information and guidance to address their concerns. Proactively identify and anticipate potential issues or challenges that drivers may face during the driver journey. Willingness to take ownership of more complex cases, that require extra attention and de-escalation whilst seeing them through to resolution.
• Provide exceptional customer service through first contact resolution, taking full accountability for the service you deliver, striving to exceed KPIs and SLAs.
• Is flexible to take on bespoke and ad hoc on tasks allocated by Line Manager, whilst taking inbound phone calls.

About us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We're an award winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009. We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future. We're committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too. This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.

Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement. Offering all fuel types, prices and over 1000 cars to choose from all by leading manufacturers. Please visit for more information www.tuskerdirect.com

What you'll need

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Polite and professional telephone manner
• Manages self with strong organisational and time management skills
• High accuracy levels and attention to detail
• Motivated by and understands the importance achieving targets, individually and as part of a team

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Office 365
• Previous automotive industry experience
• System experience- Ebbon Dacs & Salesforce

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 22 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We'd love to hear from yo

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

JOB TITLE: Business Agility Lead

SALARY: £62,874 - £69,860

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

The Purpose of the Business Agility Lead (BAL) is to work in partnership with Labs. You'll drive effectiveness, efficiency and predictability to deliver value to customers and colleagues at pace. The Business Agility Lead (BAL) is jointly responsible for the performance of the Lab including data quality, optimised flow of work, Lab topology, and agile practices. You'll do this by transitioning to a data led approach to increase speed to market through related measures, introduce proactive continual improvements and coach back to delivery when off track. This will be achieved by working hand in hand with Lab Leaders who hold accountability for performance and maturity, whilst providing coaching and transferring capabilities so that Teams are ultimately able to do this for themselves in time.

In this role, you'll support colleagues within your lab and platform to implement and refine agile practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, scaled frameworks etc.), using experience, data and relevant business knowledge. You'll have an understanding of different agile approaches and use judgement to decide when and where to apply them.

You'll be familiar with Agile Methodology and Tooling, helping to stand up new agile teams, providing coaching and advice and sharing experience on the most appropriate methods and tools to use for the specific work required.

You'll be a keen problem solver, understanding the challenge, and creating possible solutions using a variety of methods through your experience, data, creativity and knowledge of the customer, business and industry. You'll support and coach teams with various technique, including brainstorming, process flows and value hypothesis setting.

We have a spectrum of agile maturity across our teams and labs, from those trying it for the first time, through to those with established practices and maturity, and we're looking for motivated and experienced Agile enthusiasts to join our team of committed Business Agility Leads.

What you'll need:

• Proven experience in Agile Coaching / Scrum Mastery (with relevant certifications)
• Understanding of Agile Delivery Metrics and Evidenced based decision making
• Experience in coaching and influencing Lab leadership in Agile Ways of Working
• Experience of using JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence
• Ability to drive data quality and the accurate use of JIRA and JIRA Align
• Ability to use data and insights to problem solve and support Lab performance and productivity to drive Lab cadence

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Agile certifications e.g. PSM 1, PSM 2, PK1 or similar

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Tate recruitment have joined with a local authority business located in Stevenage to assist in the search for a Finance Officer.

Finance Officer

• £12.18 per hour
• Fully office based- Stevenage
• Hours:37 per week Monday - Friday
• Temp contract- 3 months

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

To support the delivery of an effective Finance Service for Adult Care Services.

MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

• To deliver financial support, undertake administrative tasks and to carry out transnational processes accurately and efficiently within the team as required.
• Provide focused financial information to all stakeholders, including finance colleagues, ACS Managers, service users and care providers.
• To assist in the promotion of best financial practice and compliance with the relevant accounting, statutory and financial regulations and procedures.
• To liaise and work closely with colleagues across Adult Care Services to deliver financial services dealing with payments, charging, client finances and debt.
• To respond to queries from the public, care providers or other stakeholders.
• To support the accurate and timely processing and recording of financial data and maintenance of financial records.

PERSONAL SPECIFICATION:

• You will be a highly motivated individual, capable of developing professional relationships with all stakeholders, including suppliers, service users and budget managers.
• You will have experience of working in a team environment and have excellent communication skills.
• You will demonstrate the ability to deal with difficult telephone conversations.
• The successful candidate will have an understanding of financial processes and procedures and the ability to explain financial matters.
• You will be competent at keeping accurate manual and computer records.
• Good IT skills and experience of working with large data bases.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft office applications especially excel.
• Knowledge of SAP would be beneficial.

If you possess the relevant skills and experience, apply today!

Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.

Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Tate is committed to promoting equal opportunities. To ensure that every candidate has the best experience with us, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments we can make during the application or interview process. Your comfort and accessibility are our priority, and we are here to support you every step of the way. Additionally, we value and respect your individuality, and we invite you to share your preferred pronouns in your application.

JOB TITLE: Business Agility Lead

SALARY: £62,874 - £69,860

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

The Purpose of the Business Agility Lead (BAL) is to work in partnership with Labs. You'll drive effectiveness, efficiency and predictability to deliver value to customers and colleagues at pace. The Business Agility Lead (BAL) is jointly responsible for the performance of the Lab including data quality, optimised flow of work, Lab topology, and agile practices. You'll do this by transitioning to a data led approach to increase speed to market through related measures, introduce proactive continual improvements and coach back to delivery when off track. This will be achieved by working hand in hand with Lab Leaders who hold accountability for performance and maturity, whilst providing coaching and transferring capabilities so that Teams are ultimately able to do this for themselves in time.

In this role, you'll support colleagues within your lab and platform to implement and refine agile practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, scaled frameworks etc.), using experience, data and relevant business knowledge. You'll have an understanding of different agile approaches and use judgement to decide when and where to apply them.

You'll be familiar with Agile Methodology and Tooling, helping to stand up new agile teams, providing coaching and advice and sharing experience on the most appropriate methods and tools to use for the specific work required.

You'll be a keen problem solver, understanding the challenge, and creating possible solutions using a variety of methods through your experience, data, creativity and knowledge of the customer, business and industry. You'll support and coach teams with various technique, including brainstorming, process flows and value hypothesis setting.

We have a spectrum of agile maturity across our teams and labs, from those trying it for the first time, through to those with established practices and maturity, and we're looking for motivated and experienced Agile enthusiasts to join our team of committed Business Agility Leads.

What you'll need:

• Proven experience in Agile Coaching / Scrum Mastery (with relevant certifications)
• Understanding of Agile Delivery Metrics and Evidenced based decision making
• Experience in coaching and influencing Lab leadership in Agile Ways of Working
• Experience of using JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence
• Ability to drive data quality and the accurate use of JIRA and JIRA Align
• Ability to use data and insights to problem solve and support Lab performance and productivity to drive Lab cadence

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Agile certifications e.g. PSM 1, PSM 2, PK1 or similar

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

• JOB TITLE: Lead Software Engineer- Perl

• SALARY: £73,521 - £81,690

• LOCATION(S): Watford

• HOURS: Full-time

• WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days, or 40% of your time, at our Watford site.

About this Opportunity

Strive to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams. They will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team and excellent passion for mentoring and developing people in a "player-coach" model

• Takes ownership for delivering a prescribed budget for own area of the organisation and/or conducts sophisticated analyses on budget progress in other areas while working within established systems.

• Personally meets customer needs related to standard products and services and/or supervises a team of customer advisors.

• Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develops the capabilities of direct reports by working within existing development framework; provides specialised training or coaching in area of expertise to others throughout the organisation.

• Identifies shortcomings and suggests improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, then delivers a plan for a small element of a change management programme with guidance from a project/programme manager.

• Highlights shortcomings and suggests improvements in current IT Security processes, systems and procedures within assigned unit and/or discipline

• Being an acknowledged Technical Authority on your tech stack, you will be expected to maintain the architectural vision across all different workstreams and identifying the right tool for the job.

• Working with members of the business at all levels, to formulate technical solutions to meet business needs and communicating effectively with partners, establishing relationships with users around the business.

• Communicating with third-party developers when we collaborate with other development houses.

About us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We're an award winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009. We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future. We're committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too. This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.

Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement. Offering all fuel types, prices and over 1000 cars to choose from all by leading manufacturers. Please visit for more information www.tuskerdirect.com

What you'll need

• Delivers prescribed outcomes for area of responsibility by working within established knowledge management systems and delivers outcomes by handling others and working within established systems.

• Sets short term objectives and helps own the performance of direct reports by working within performance management systems.

• Explores issues and/or needs to establish potential causes, related issues and barriers.

• Defines, delivers, and adapts specialized products/services to meet customer needs by selecting the best possible approaches available within established systems.

• Delivers prescribed outcomes for a designated area, using risk management systems to ensure the organisation is not exposed to undue risks.

• Delivers prescribed outcomes for area of responsibility by improving and/or working within an established supplier management plan for area of responsibility by working within established strategic planning systems.

• Analyses specified problems and issues to find the best technical and/or professional solutions.

• Develops product specifications while designing testing procedures and standards.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Deep knowledge of your preferred programming language (Perl or Ruby on Rails) as well as knowledge of other tech stacks such as JavaScript and expertise with version control (Git)

• Experience with a range of architectural design patterns as well as database design and development ( Oracle and/or PostgreSQL)

• Experience managing other developers and expertise with automated unit / integration testing as well as driving process and tooling changes

• Experience working with a wider development team (QA, BAs etc) as well as agile environment with handling database changes

• Good experience working with database Stored Procedures and integrating with APIs and with continuous integration and continuous deployment

• Ability to work independently and self-manage with great written and verbal communication skills

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We'd love to hear from you.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Your new companyA Media Communications company is looking to recruit a Finance Assistant to support their financial department.Your new roleThe responsibilities include processing payments, updating financial records, quarterly VAT returns and managing invoices. To be successful as a finance assistant, you should have strong knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting principles, good organisational skills, and working knowledge of accounting software. Ultimately, a top-notch finance assistant should have integrity, excellent mathematical skills and attention to detail.What you'll need to succeed* Experience in producing basic management accounts/ strong bookkeeping knowledge
* Experience in producing VAT returns
* Proactive and eager to learn to expand abilities
* Bank reconciliations - process receipts and payments onto Sage
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Sage 200 experience


What you'll get in returnA relaxed and friendly working environment , a competitive salary,25 days holiday plus bank holidaysFree parking including access to car charging points
Gympass

What you need to do now

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JOB TITLE: Business Agility Lead

SALARY: £62,874 - £69,860

LOCATION: Edinburgh or Leeds

HOURS: Full Time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Edinburgh or Leeds office

About this opportunity

The Purpose of the Business Agility Lead (BAL) is to work in partnership with Labs. You'll drive effectiveness, efficiency and predictability to deliver value to customers and colleagues at pace. The Business Agility Lead (BAL) is jointly responsible for the performance of the Lab including data quality, optimised flow of work, Lab topology, and agile practices. You'll do this by transitioning to a data led approach to increase speed to market through related measures, introduce proactive continual improvements and coach back to delivery when off track. This will be achieved by working hand in hand with Lab Leaders who hold accountability for performance and maturity, whilst providing coaching and transferring capabilities so that Teams are ultimately able to do this for themselves in time.

In this role, you'll support colleagues within your lab and platform to implement and refine agile practices (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, scaled frameworks etc.), using experience, data and relevant business knowledge. You'll have an understanding of different agile approaches and use judgement to decide when and where to apply them.

You'll be familiar with Agile Methodology and Tooling, helping to stand up new agile teams, providing coaching and advice and sharing experience on the most appropriate methods and tools to use for the specific work required.

You'll be a keen problem solver, understanding the challenge, and creating possible solutions using a variety of methods through your experience, data, creativity and knowledge of the customer, business and industry. You'll support and coach teams with various technique, including brainstorming, process flows and value hypothesis setting.

We have a spectrum of agile maturity across our teams and labs, from those trying it for the first time, through to those with established practices and maturity, and we're looking for motivated and experienced Agile enthusiasts to join our team of committed Business Agility Leads.

What you'll need:

• Proven experience in Agile Coaching / Scrum Mastery (with relevant certifications)
• Understanding of Agile Delivery Metrics and Evidenced based decision making
• Experience in coaching and influencing Lab leadership in Agile Ways of Working
• Experience of using JIRA, JIRA Align and Confluence
• Ability to drive data quality and the accurate use of JIRA and JIRA Align
• Ability to use data and insights to problem solve and support Lab performance and productivity to drive Lab cadence

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Agile certifications e.g. PSM 1, PSM 2, PK1 or similar

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Finance Business Partner - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

The UK’s leading provider of adult short break experiences, Warner Hotels is a collection of unique properties in great locations across the UK. All short breaks at a Warner Hotel include breakfast, dinner and specified entertainment and activities, ensuring guests make the most of their time away. Situated in stunning locations nationwide including Heythrop Park in the Cotswolds, Studley Castle in Warwickshire, Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire and The Runnymede on Thames, each hotel offers its own personal character that makes every Warner Hotels stay unique.

We are looking for an exceptional Finance Business Partner who can partner with the Regional Operations Directors and Hotel GMs to support financial decision making and influence improved financial performance for the hotels in the region.

What will I be doing?
Taking the financial lead for portfolio of c.7 hotels, providing finance support to Regional Operations Directors and Hotel GMs.
Leading budget setting and forecasting processes, ensuring challenging but achievable budgets are set
Reviewing hotel financial performance, with insight & challenge and identifying continuous improvement opportunities
Taking financial responsibility for hotel capital approval requests and post implementation reviews
Undertaking financial leadership and coaching of site leadership teams

What are we looking for?
You will have an inquisitive proactive mindset with good analytical skills
Strong influencing and communication skills (both verbal and written)
CIMA/ACA or similar qualification
Experience in hospitality, leisure or supply chain environments including business partnering with non-finance team members

What we offer:

Competitive salary and bonus

Car allowance

Great deals on Warner stays

Discounts on food and beverages at hotels and on-site cafeteria

22 days holiday rising to 25 on 2 years service

A variety of deals and discounts with numerous online retailers, cinemas and other experiences

Hays EA is a trading division of Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited and acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk