I am actively recruiting for a Business Operations Manager on a 6 month contract for a large Central Government Organisation. The role is Inside IR35 paying up to £250/day and remotely based with travel once per week to Bristol.

The Business Operations team supports the organisation by facilitating:

• Recruitment and Workforce Planning
• Financial Management and Business Planning
• Commercials and Procurement
• IT and Information Management

The Role:

• Support business as usual financial processes such as receipting invoices and maintaining trackers;
• Support business as usual recruitment processes such as civil servant and contingent labour recruitment through supporting teams to complete required templates and documentation and maintain trackers;
• Process requests such as approvals for travel and requests for software licences;
• Support the compilation of data from teams and generation of reports, by for example creating templates and sharing with teams;
• Maintain our process and knowledge documentation;
• Track and manage approvals for recruitment and purchasing
• Provide general support as directed by the Head of Operations
• Represent the Operations Team professionally when engaging with teams or our business partners.

Key Skills:

• Demonstrable knowledge of using spreadsheets and functionality such as: Conditional formatting - VLOOKUP - Sumif and countif
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Good organisation and time management skills with an attention to detail;
• Good working knowledge of standard office products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc).
• We use Google Workspace, which is functionally very similar to Microsoft 365.
• The ability to produce clear and concise reports for review
• The ability to multi-task across on distinct tasks, and to learn ways of working and tools quickly
• The aptitude to document ways of working on a wiki such as confluence or google-sites and to document processes (eg flow charts) as you learn them;
• The ability to self organise and proactive attitude to problem-solving;
• To be able to work individually as well as part of a team

Please contact myself on the below details for further information.