Reading, Oxfordshire AWE
What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?

For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK s ultimate deterrent - Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.

It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?

Group Leader - Resource, Finance and Risk

Location: Basingstoke/Reading. This role offers hybrid working.

Salary: £61,330 - £79,000 (depending on skills and experience)

Closing date: 26th July 2024

We are currently seeking a Resource Manager to join our team within the ESH&Q function. Duties will include overseeing the allocation of human, financial, and material resources to drive ESH&Q initiatives and projects.

For this role, we can offer flexible working hours, including options for part-time and job sharing.

As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
• Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training.
• A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution).
• Life Assurance.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family.
• A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop, deploy and maintain functional resource, finance, and risk strategy, policy and standards in line with business requirements, through the effective collaboration of senior leaders and wider business units i.e. tech centres/functions.
• Establish suitable governance frameworks and monitoring regimes within the function to ensure leaders have appropriate information from will which lead to intelligent and informed decision making.
• Create reports and board papers. Lead continuous improvement projects that enhance performance and deliver both tangible and intangible benefits.
• Engage with other business operations teams and corporate functions to develop and deploy improvement initiatives relating to resource, finance, and risk management.
• Lead and manage a team of resource, finance and risk specialists to define tactical delivery objectives.
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
  
  

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a role model, coach and develop a proactive team culture, sharing best practice principles, highlighting, and rewarding good behaviours and performance.
• Manage the functional budget ensuring timely reporting of key information.
• Manage functional resource deployment incl. recruitment, transfers, exits, capability, etc.
• Manage the functional risk management plan, ensuring that corporate requirements are delivered, and suitable governance regimes are in place to track progress and measure performance.
• Analyse resource and financial forecasts and actuals against agreed parameters and drive proactive resourcing decisions and behaviours accordingly.
• Proactively Look at ways to enhance resource and financial performance to save money, improve optimisation or increase productivity.
• Develop, maintain and co-ordinate functional service delivery model in collaboration with relevant senior leaders, ensuring delivery needs are met and customer satisfaction is maintained.

Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.

Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide us will be used to encourage and support you through the application process and will be held only for this purpose in accordance with GDPR.