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Job Description
EMEA ITS Portfolio & Finance Manager
Job Location
London
Practice Group/Department
Information Technology
Role
Business Services
Job Title
EMEA ITS Portfolio & Finance Manager
Work Type
Full Time - Fixed Term
Description
We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices
and 7,000 employees worldwide.
We are currently recruiting for EMEA ITS Portfolio &
Finance Manager. As well as the relevant skills and
experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial
and value the work that they do. We celebrate multiple approaches and
points of view and believe diversity drives innovation, so we're
building a culture where difference is valued.
The Role
The Portfolio & Finance Manager will track the ITS department's
finances, ensuring suitable controls are in place and ensure c£25m -
£30m annual spend is kept in line with the agreed budget. The role
will also work alongside the CIO to manage headcount, approvals for
recruitment and review any new work coming into the department.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the annual portfolio planning exercise and assist in
structuring the portfolio to best meet the needs of NRF and to work
with senior business and IT stakeholders, to create a balanced ITS portfolio.
- Develop and implement standard processes for teams involved in
delivering the project portfolio and keep it updated with any changes.
- To lead the annual budgetary planning exercise by working with
senior business and IT stakeholders to understand, assess and
compile the complete ITS annual budget and to work with the EMEA CIO
to obtain approval, making adjustments as necessary.
- Develop a commentary to allow the Executive Board and other senior
stakeholders to understand how IT expenditure in the firm is
incurred. Develop the concept of fixed, variable costs, and
discretionary spend and apply these in relation to monitoring
progress in delivering the firm's strategy.
- To work closely with the NRF Finance department to ensure
reporting is aligned and financial queries from either department
are resolved effectively.
- Maintain a detailed understanding of the department's budget,
tracking spend, managing budgetary change and communicating any
subsequent impact to delivery
- Identify and monitor spend with our top tier suppliers, making
sure the ITS relationship owner in each case is actively looking to
make cost savings annually
- Review BAU costs incurrent in line with actual costs received and
work with operational team leads to monitor and control operational
cost expenditure.
- To work with the Head of Programmes and Director of Operations to
communicate the approved budgets at the start of the year and to
coordinate the approval for any budgetary changes throughout the
year, maintaining the primary budget tracker
- To provide a monthly report to the relevant ITS stakeholders
showing actual spend for projects, programmes and operational
expenditure to enable accurate tracking
- To maintain visibility of global expenditures in relation to EMEA
deliveries and provide relevant data to ITS stakeholders.
Skills and Experience Required
- A passion to add value and drive efficient processes across a
leading legal professional services firm, working in collaboration
with colleagues with a practical delivery and stakeholder focused attitude.
- Strong written and verbal communication with the ability to
translate financial jargon for non-finance stakeholders.
- Experience of performing a similar role in the legal, finance,
engineering or other professional services organization, devising
and implementing new processes to improve portfolio and financial
management maturity in the department
- A team player with the ability to collaborate across all areas of
the ITS and the business
- Experience with working in a mature, PMO environment with the
ability to recommend, define and apply standard methods in a
pragmatic way.
- The candidate will be one of the faces of IT on which senior
stakeholders will form opinions of our capabilities. As such the
required candidate will need to demonstrate a positive 'can do' attitude.
- Experience of PRINCE2, MSP and other project delivery methods,
with the ability to demonstrate their practical application.
- Actively looks for opportunities to improve financial or portfolio
practices, presenting proposals or working with others to implement them
- Excellent track record in financial control. A working
understanding of financial accounting practices including the
different treatments for capital, revenue and resource expenditure.
- Strong oral and written communication skills and influencing
skills to work successfully & confidently at all levels
including senior IT, Business management, and other financial and
non-financial professional and business services staff.
Our clients come first and whilst we have a high performance culture
and work hard as a team, in return we offer range of competitive
benefits including:
-
25 days hols + Bank hols - Buy
up to 5 days
-
GP Service
-
Bupa Healthcare
-
Pension
-
Flexible working
In addition, we are proud of our established health and wellbeing
programme which supports our employees through mental, physical and
lifestyle challenges.
Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to promoting a diverse workforce
and an inclusive workplace where everyone can realise their full
potential and career ambitions on the basis of merit and skill. We
offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies,
flexible working arrangements, and employee networks. Find more about
Diversity and Inclusion here.
Norton Rose Fulbright is an equal opportunities employer. We will
make reasonable adjustments to our application process to ensure that
you have the best chance of success. We understand that there's not a
"one size fits all" approach to adjustments so our team will
work with you individually to understand more about your requirements.
Please contact our Recruitment team on EMEARecruitment@nortonrosefulbright.com
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