Job Purpose

To scenario-plan different benefits profiles related to projects on an ongoing basis, modelling different options including course correction as required. Translate non-financial benefits into trackable outcomes wherever possible and contribute to understanding and driving the commercial success of our organization by providing deep insights, robust analysis, and strategic recommendations.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand projects from concept to completion and create the relevant business case and performance metrics at each stage.
Deploy good interpersonal skills including negotiating, motivating, influencing, and building credible relationships with stakeholders.
Provide specialist advice and guidance to translate business requirements into tangible, measurable outcomes.
Partner with business owners (Transformation Leads), Strategic Engagement and hypercare (Transformation Transition) functions within Transformation to ensure benefits are achieved as part of the change adoption process, as well as a close partnership with the PMO function throughout a project lifecycle
Support University governance as required, by helping senior stakeholders understand the value-implications of pending decisions.

2. Financial Analysis & Reporting

Develop and maintain complex financial models to forecast benefits including cost avoidance, efficiency gains, return on investment, user experience and student satisfaction amongst others.
Partner with our Planning Insight & Analysis function to understand historic data/performance and identify key trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
Prepare and present detailed financial reports and dashboards to senior management, providing actionable insights and recommendations.

3. Commercial Strategy & Planning:

Collaborate with project teams to develop and refine benefit-realisation strategies as part of wider deployment plans.
Support the annual budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring alignment with the University’s overall objectives.
Conduct scenario analysis to evaluate the impact of potential business decisions, including horizon scanning.

Knowledge, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential:

A1 Either: Ability to demonstrate the competencies required to undertake the duties associated with this level of post having acquired the necessary professional knowledge and management skills in a similar or number of different specialist roles. Or: Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework level 9,10 or 11 (Ordinary/Honours Degree, Post Graduate Qualification), or equivalent, including being professionally qualified in relevant discipline, with a broad range of professional experience in a management role(s).

A2 Detailed and evidenced knowledge of commercial analysis across the end-to-end lifecycle of strategic projects.

A3 Evidence of self-management and leading on areas of complex financial analysis involving extensive datasets.

Desirable:

B1 Knowledge of the Higher Education sector.

B2 Knowledge of large-scale technology programmes e.g. CRM, Enterprise Integration Platform.

Skills

Essential:

C1 Demonstrable ability to quickly understand and distil projects into measurable outcomes, being creative with data analysis to problem-solve given many projects have no like-for-like comparison within the institution as a baseline.

C2 Effective communication and presentation skills to interact with the wider Finance Directorate, Transformation Team, and wider stakeholders.

C3 Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish effective working relationships.

C4 Comfortable to manage and analyse large data-sets – for example experience with BI tools, extracting and manipulating data.

C5 Resilient and able to effectively deal with ambiguity and able to maintain momentum in the face of obstacles/setbacks.

C6 Advanced skills in the use of Microsoft packages such as Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint; and accounting software packages.

Experience

Essential:

E1 Experience working as a commercial analyst within a large, complex organisation.

E2 Experience creating business cases, and doing options appraisal, across a number of projects concurrently.

E3 Significant experience of working with complex datasets, completing dataset reconciliations and translating into end user reporting.

E4 Demonstrable background planning and analysis role experience in a complex environment.

E5 Demonstrable delivery of insightful business information and reporting.

E6 Experience of working with and influencing at various levels across organisations including senior management.

Terms and Conditions

Salary will be Grade 8, £49,250 - £56,921 per annum.

This post is full time (35 hours per week) and has funding for up to 2 years.

The University of Glasgow has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. If you require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK, you will be required to meet the eligibility requirements of the visa route to be assigned a Certificate of Sponsorship.
Please note that this post may be eligible to be sponsored under the Skilled Worker visa route if tradeable points can be used under the Skilled Worker visa rules. For more information please visit: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

As part of Team UofG you will be a member of a world changing, inclusive community, which values ambition, excellence, integrity and curiosity.

As a valued member of our team, you can expect:

1 A warm welcoming and engaging organisational culture, where your talents are developed and nurtured, and success is celebrated and shared.

2 An excellent employment package with generous terms and conditions including 41 days of leave for full time staff, pension - pensions handbook https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/payandpensions/pensions/, benefits and discount packages.

3 A flexible approach to working.

4 A commitment to support your health and wellbeing, including a free 6-month UofG Sport membership for all new staff joining the University https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/staff/healthwellbeing/.

We believe that we can only reach our full potential through the talents of all. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our values. Applications are particularly welcome from across our communities and in particular people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented within the University. Read more on how the University promotes and embeds all aspects of equality and diversity within our community https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/.

We endorse the principles of Athena Swan https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/humanresources/equalitydiversity/athenaswan/ and hold bronze, silver and gold awards across the University.

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