Award of PMO Assurance Manager

Tender description

The Scottish Government is delivering a flagship change programme to improve the performance and efficiency of how corporate shared services are provided to core Scottish Government and other public bodies in Scotland. With significant multi-year investment in technology planned, the corporate Shared Services Programme (SSP) will deliver the implementation of Oracle Fusion Cloud, a modular based cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution at an overall cost of around £20m. The SSP will deploy the solutions and platforms required to enable operational and cultural change to meet user needs and provide a better customer experience. The scope of the programme is across HR, Finance, (RTR, EPM, PTP & OTC) for core organisations and budgeting/forecasting and financial consolidation across the wider public sector. Our initial ambition is to replace old on premise customised technology to new cloud based integrated ERP / EPM Solutions, to allow the credible running of modern finance function with robust data structures and the basics of a customer and service driven management culture. The Programme will also provide a foundation for further growth to support the government’s wider vision for shared services and the ability to be a data driven organisation. This post will provide management of the Programme Assurances to ensure it complies with SG Audit and Governance requirements. • Build effective working relationships with audit and assurance teams to ensure the Programme undertakes sufficient assurance, to the satisfaction of SG Exec Team • Schedule, manage and support, all audit and assurance activity across the programme • Ensure access to programme people and artefacts to support reviewers • Ensure programme staff providing input to reviews are supported, understand the ask, and the context of assurance in SG, relevant to the programme • Undertake internal Assurance activity on the Programme where required • Drive the “conditions for success” list that need to be true for the programme to return to green