Total 8 job vacancies by Hays Specialist Recruitment

An exciting opportunity for an Interim HR Change Manager. Our public sector client is seeking an experienced Interim HR Change Manager to lead the implementation of the People Services review. This role focusses on high-impact, cost-effective change to ensure alignment with future needs and financial constraints.Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Implementation:
  Drive the People Services review, focusing on impactful and cost-effective solutions.
• Project Planning:
  Develop and deliver a clear, actionable project plan with defined milestones and deliverables based on the review's recommendations.
• Process Improvement:
  Streamline recruitment and employee relations processes, reducing manual interventions and improving response times.
• Streamline policies, procedures, and systems to reduce bureaucratic processes and improve service delivery.
• Digitisation:
  Launch the digitisation of key manual processes, reducing paper-based forms and automating workflows.
• System Utilisation:
  Ensure full utilisation of the iTrent HR system, including setting up self-service functionalities for line managers to reduce the burden on HR staff.
• Use a Stop-Start-Continue framework to identify and reduce low-value activities, focusing on high-impact practices.
• Conduct an efficiency review to eliminate non-value-adding tasks, allowing employees to focus on priority activities.
• Develop and execute a communication plan with engagement sessions for key stakeholders, ensuring support for transformation initiatives.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Proven experience in an HR change management role within the public sector.
• Strong project management skills with a track record of delivering complex projects on time and within budget.
• You will ideally be MCIPD Qualified or equivalent.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Proficiency in using HR systems, iTrent would be advantageous.

What you need to do now
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This firm is growing! As they continue to grow, they want someone to not only get the work done, but embrace the new technology and efficiencies that the accountancy world now brings. You will be someone to help propel this growth, a self-starter, someone that is passionate, dedicated, and motivated, who will strive to want more and progress their career even further.You will be provided with transparent future career progression and goals from the start, and as they grow, you'll grow with them.

* Manage a portfolio of clients independently
* Managing a member of the team, reviewing their work, and ensuring work is completed to the required standards and timelines.
* Assisting with the onboarding of new clients and continued growth of the firm.
* Meeting with clients to address tax planning strategies and provide professional advice.

* ACCA/ACA qualified, finalists considered.
* Must have a minimum of 3 years experience in a public accountancy practice.
* Experience managing and reviewing junior team members.
* Experience of TaxCalc preferrable but not required.
* Experience of Xero and Dext.
* Organised, proactive, self-motivated, hungry to learn and progress.

This is a friendly, young, fun driven team. They are proactive, with a supportive atmosphere with strong career progression and future goals.
This firm are experiencing growth because of the great work that they do, and need someone to help support the growth, and help push this growth even further.
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.

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Job Title:
Head of Building Maintenance
Salary 65k
Reporting to: Property Director - Estate
Job Level - C
Purpose of Position: To be responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of the built estate at Woburn
Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Lead the Estates building teams to achieve the Trustees' objectives for the built portfolio.
• Prepare and manage the annual building maintenance budget.
• Oversee preventative maintenance plans and periodic reviews.
• Supervise Estates building surveyors and in-house maintenance teams.
• Liaise with operational heads of the Farm, Safari Park, Golf Club, and Abbey for property maintenance.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety legislation and statutory regulations.
• Manage maintenance and refurbishment projects from inception to completion.
• Keep up to date with industry developments and apply them to portfolio management.

Security:

• Maintain secure premises and ensure staff awareness of security needs.
• Arrange inspections of vacant properties.
• Be available for out-of-hours on-call duties.

GDPR:

• Support staff compliance with data privacy policies.
• Ensure processes for data subject rights and retention schedules are in place.

Other:

• Attend necessary training courses.
• Be conversant with the Estate Handbook and supporting policies.
• Comply with reasonable instructions from the manager.

Person Specification:Qualifications Required:

• Relevant Building or Surveying qualification.
• RICS, MCIOB, or Hons Degree (desirable).

Experience Required:

• Managing directly employed teams and contractors.
• Dealing with listed buildings and maintenance processes.
• Knowledge of building pathology, planning regulations, and building regulations.

Skills/Technical Knowledge:

• Health & Safety and CDM Regulations.
• Up-to-date building construction knowledge.
• Proficiency in Outlook, Word, Excel, ACAD, and QUBE.
• Asbestos management and diagnosing building defects.

Personal Attributes:

• Accountability, communication, customer focus, organising & planning, teamwork, business acumen, leadership, decision-making, task management, attention to detail, commercial awareness, and personal drive.

Other Requirements:

• Full driving licence.
• The ability to undertake call-out duties on a rota basis.
• CPD evidence.

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Assistant Finance ManagerSalary £45,000 - £50,000


Key Responsibilities:
* Assist with preparation of statutory accounts for all Group companies and Group consolidation in accordance with financial reporting standards and best practice
* Working closely with business partners and being a key point of contact to Site & Operations managers during month and year end reporting periods
* Manage, prepare and review the monthly management accounts
* Responsible for the month-end process including preparation, posting and review of journals, completing all balance sheet reconciliations and analysis of monthly movements
* Responsible for accurate reporting of accounts payable, accounts receivable, prepayments, accruals, fixed assets and other debtors and creditors
* Complete weekly and periodic management reports including detailed budget to actual variance analysis, Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss
* Support Finance Managers on technical accounting issues including aspects of acquisition accounting.
* Ad-hoc analysis and projects to support the needs of the business

Commercial Reporting:
* Support Finance Managers to review, challenge and then implement changes to the accounting and Management Information (MI) to provide maximum insight into company profitability.
* Demonstrate exceptional financial analysis skills
* Work with internal stakeholders including board members to support them on budget setting and monitoring, delivering an excellent business partnering service
* Produce high quality information, data and KPIs, ensuring that information and data produced by the finance teams is transparent, accurate and appropriate for corporate reporting

Person specification:
* High level of accuracy and attention to detail
* Ability to multi task and manage conflicting priorities
* Possess strong interpersonal and communication skills
* Able to build trust and credibility as well as fit into our company culture and share our values.
* Good problem solving skills
* Ability to work to structured deadlines
* Strong communication skills both verbal and written
* Knowledge of accounting systems and intermediate Excel- Pivot Tables and V-lookups
* Resilient and able to work in an organisation that is undergoing change due to development and growth.
* Is a real Team player
* Able to plan and prioritise workload to ensure objectives are achieved on time.
* Able to identify problems and make decisions, taking appropriate action to resolve

Desirable qualifications/experience:
* Experience of working in a similar role within a medium/ large company.


Essential qualifications/experience:
* Accountancy qualification/part qualification CIMA/ACCA/ ACA.

• Non-contractual 10% bonus on basic salary (based on meeting KPI's and company performance targets)
• Single cover private healthcare
• NEST pension (3% employer contribution, 4% employee)
• Perkbox - benefits platform
• 25 days annual leave

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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An excellent opportunity, a Permanent HR Team Leader / HR Operations Manager job, within a growing, ambitious, entrepreneurial organisation, based in Bedford and moving to Milton Keynes, hybrid-3 days in the office, 2 days working from home.
Join the team as an HR Team Leader / HR Operations Manager and help deliver HR services to the business. You will model HR best practice, establish credibility and trust with stakeholders, and support innovation in HR support.Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for coaching, mentoring and developing a team of HR life cycle support advisors, who provide HR advice on HR, Benefits, Payroll and Learning & Development queries, via a case management tool.
• You will be there to provide expert advice and guidance on end-end HR processes, policies and procedures.
• You will be solutions focused and have the ability to resolve potential issues.
• If you enjoy a role where you are passionate about excellent customer service and can streamline processes and procedures and build a great rapport with senior stakeholders, this will be a great opportunity for you.

The Successful Applicant:

• You must have experience as an HR Team Leader / HR Operations Manager, who has worked in a large, commercial HR Shared Services environment.
• Ideally, you will have experience using the Workday system.
• Experience in Financial Services, Insurance or a similar industry would be advantageous.

Benefits:

• Career that you define
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays
• Bonus
• Pension 5% match
• Flexible Benefits
• Support personal development, volunteering, and fundraising for charity
• Support separate home and work lives

What you need to do now


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Finance Manager
£60,000 - £65,000
09:00 - 17:00
Permanent role - fully office based.

Job description:
You'll be responsible for:

• Assist with preparation of statutory accounts for all Group companies and Group Consolidation in accordance with financial reporting standards and best practice
• Corporation Tax Reporting and Tax Planning for Year End
• Working closely with business partners and being a key point of contact to Site & Operations managers during month and year-end reporting periods
• Day to day management of one of the functional shared service teams
• Manage, prepare and review the Group Reporting function and monthly Management accounts
• Responsible for the month-end process including preparation, posting and review of journals, completing all balance sheet reconciliations and analysis of monthly movements
• Responsible for accurate reporting of accounts payable, accounts receivable, prepayments, accruals, fixed assets and other debtors and creditors
• Complete weekly and periodic management reports including detailed budget to actual variance analysis, Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss
• Manage weekly and monthly cash flow forecasts ensuring the company's working capital are within agreed targets.
• Assist the Group Finance Director with annual budget setting process and preparation of forecasts
• Support with technical accounting issues including aspects of acquisition accounting.
• Ad-hoc analysis and projects to support the needs of the business

Commercial Reporting:

• Review, challenge and then implement changes to the accounting and Management Information (MI) to provide maximum insight into company profitability.
• Develop the financial management systems and policies, to improve ways of working and increase efficiency

Job Description

• Drive financial control and reporting to provide greater insight into the business thereby highlighting opportunities to increase profitability and increase margins across the Group
• Demonstrate exceptional financial analysis skills
• Work with internal stakeholders including board members to advise them on budget setting and monitoring, delivering an excellent business partnering service
• Produce high quality information, data and KPIs, ensuring that information and data produced by the finance teams is transparent, accurate and appropriate for corporate reporting

About you

• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to multi task and manage conflicting priorities
• Possess strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to build trust and credibility as well as fit into our company culture and share our values.
• Good problem solving skills
• Ability to work to structured deadlines
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written
• Knowledge of accounting systems and intermediate Excel- Pivot Tables and Vlookups
• Resilient and able to work in an organisation that is undergoing change due to development and growth.
• Demonstrates initiative and influences change through an "investigative" and "can do" approach and attitude to all tasks
• Is a real Team player
• Able to plan and prioritise workload to ensure objectives are achieved on time.
• Able to identify problems and make decisions, taking appropriate action to resolve

Must Haves

Accountancy qualification CIMA/ACCA/ ACA - Any applications without being fully qualfied will be rejected

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EMEA Category Manager - Commercial / Indirect Spend Categories

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, Procurement and Category Management? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life-changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

About AstraZenecaAstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focusses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.

Job roleThe role sits on the EMEA Regional Category Management team focused on Europe, Middle-East Africa and Eurasia, reporting to the Director of Category Management EMEA, engaging with the Global Category Management Team(s) for the categories under its responsibility and coordinating with the countries' Procurement Managers as well as the Business. It is sitting within AstraZeneca's category procurement network and will be ensuring strong and collaborative relationships are built and maintained to define the category strategies and lead the category plans' execution. This role will be focused on a set of commercial / indirect spend categories.

Typical accountabilities

• Oversees implementation of category plans to ensure that the underpinning process improvement and procurement activities deliver the expected business value.
• Collaborates closely with the Global Category Managers, Sub-regional Category Managers (for Middle East Africa and Eurasia), Country Procurement Managers as well as partners to deliver category strategy implementation.
• Engages proactively with Director Category Management EMEA in the development of long-term strategic plans for agreed scope of spend area, including the delivery of savings objectives as well as broader value objectives.
• Collaborates with the Global Category Managers and Director Category Management EMEA in strategic relationship management (customer and supplier) - to ensure that Category Strategies are highly aligned to current and future business needs and that the supply base can support these strategies.
• Works alongside AstraZeneca's GPS organisation in Warsaw (Global Procurement Services) advising on and driving procurement strategies to make decisions necessary to purchase products and services in congruence with organisational objectives.
• Coordinates the introduction of new and modified services with appropriate departments.
• Analyses and resolves issues raised in procurement audit reports.
• Advises on contracts and agreements for the supply of complex services with new and existing suppliers.
• Develops, evaluates or manages internal and external relationships with suppliers and other cross-functional teams.

Essential experience

• Degree level or equivalent qualifications
• Significant experience in similar environment at a management level
• Project management, change management and people management skills.
• Technical expertise in at least one procurement area, and competence in several others
• Communication skills and ability to influence others
• Teamwork focused and relationship builder: Works well with others, across departments, levels and intercultural awareness.
• Comfort with risk and ambiguous situations
• Proficiency in Procurement and other business-related systems, e.g. ERP, Ariba, Jaggaer, Coupa

Desirable

• Extensive experience in project management
• Experience in either a market-procurement role or a global or regional category management procurement role
• Experience of working in a complex matrix organisation
• Experience in the categories in scope (indirect / commercial categories)

So, what's next?At AstraZeneca, we're dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There's no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Your new company
As part of their dynamic and forward-thinking organisation, you'll join a team that thrives on innovation and cutting-edge technology. We're passionate about making a difference and driving impactful change in the industry.
Your new role
You will have strong experience of working collaboratively within a matrix structure, managing dependencies, mitigating risks, and ensuring the successful delivery of multiple projects simultaneously.
Responsibilities:

• Proactively lead the day-to-day delivery of multiple projects simultaneously managing any changing requirements, dependencies, milestones, risks, issues, and/or priorities.
• Mobilise internal and third-party supplier resources to become high performing delivery teams.
• Ensure key stakeholders are informed of the project status, issues, and concerns, providing recommendations and corrective measures as appropriate.
• Manage dependencies often with third party vendors.
• Manage late-running deliveries with an ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders to bring delivery back on target.
• Work in an environment with and managing ambiguity and uncertainty.

What you\'ll need to succeed

• Demonstrable experience of ability to hit the ground running and successfully deliver complex projects in fast-paced commercial environments.
• Experience with CRM implementations.
• Strong experience of working collaboratively within a matrix structure.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Highly organised, structured, strong attention to detail with a pragmatic, hands-on working approach.

What you\'ll get in return
A contract role lasting for an initial period of three months with the potential of extension. A rate of up to £400 per day that is outside IR35. The role is based in Bedford with the requirement being two days per week on site.
What you need to do now


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 on 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