Programme Risk Analyst Scotland
Scottish Water
Full Time
Scotland
31380 - 43350 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.
About the Role
The Portfolio Management function is responsible for the effective management of capital investment through best-practice commercial and portfolio controls.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with excellent organisational skills, data analysis and good attention to detail with the ability to collate risk information and turn it into meaningful risk data.
Main Purpose of the Role
As Risk Analyst you will be responsible for providing support, co-ordinating and ensuring effective and efficient delivery of the programme of works in accordance with Scottish Waters risk management framework.
You will ensure consistency and drive better compliance and risk data capture, as well as managing timely risk reporting submission into SW reporting cycle to enable senior management to make informed decisions and understand contingency provision.
Additionally, you will actively manage Scottish Waters Risk System and support /provide guidance to project managers in relation to increasing risk maturity and understanding their risk profile (contingency management) to ensure the Capital Programme outputs can be delivered for the agreed funding.
You will capture risk intelligence data produced within the business and interpret and present and feedback into the business to capitalise on continuous improvement and development in the area of risk management.
Technical Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
- MS Office skills - especially Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI.
- Experience of report development and ability to think logically and interpret complex data.
- Numeracy and analytical with strong presentation creation skills. You should also have good problem-solving skills
- The role will support adoption of tools and processes amongst the project teams and be instrumental in analysing and developing the information to produce meaningful and actionable reports.
- To provide advice and guidance to stakeholders in relation to risk outputs
- Ability to handle, interpret and consolidate the results of large data sets, ensuring that the results are accurate and interpretable for the relevant audience
- Ability to work as a team or independently
- Good time management and report writing skills
- Full UK driving licence
Desirable:
- Ideally you will have worked in a project / programme management environment
- Good visualisation skills for creating info graphics to represent data
- Experience working with Stakeholders in a client facing role
- Knowledge, experience and be skilled in the application of risk management techniques
- Comfortable in presenting information and facilitation meetings
Key Activities and Behaviour:
- You will support the Risk Co-ordinator and will be responsible for managing your daily activities as well as reporting deadlines and undertaking all general administrative responsibilities.
- You will provide support and advice in relation to risk management, in order to promote and embed the behavioural changes required across project delivery teams to improve the understanding of the importance of risk management and risk intelligence data gathering to support the embedment of new processes and systems as well as continuous improvement.
- You will facilitate regular communications with key customers (internally and externally) e.g. to obtain clarity on programme outputs, dates or scopes and managing the risks associated with these.
Ideal Strengths:
- People: Role model collaborative working with stakeholders (internal and external) and have a passion for exceeding customer expectations.
- Results: Driven to ensure that customer outcomes are delivered on time, efficiently and to the desired quality.
- Initiative: Flexible and willingness to complete tasks that you may believe requires needing to be undertaken, in relation to waiting to be directed.
- Self-Awareness: Regularly seek feedback and use learning to improve personal and team performance. Make best use of strengths of others to support areas of personal weakness
- Interpretation: Ability to interpret input / output data and produce value add reporting
What you’ll get
The salary range for this position is £31,380 - £43,350 depending on experience.
You can also expect:
- 38 days of holiday per year (including public holidays) with the option to buy 5 more
- Eligibility to join the defined benefit, contributory pension scheme
- Annual company bonus
- Life assurance scheme
- Paid time off for community volunteering
- Access to "SW Splash", saving you money on holidays, bills and shopping
- Excellent family friendly policies around Adoption, Maternity, Parental Leave, and Flexible Working
The closing date for applications is: 31st May 2023
For any questions regarding this opportunity please contact [email protected]
Do you have any support needs?
Please let us know if there are any changes we can make to our application and selection process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Email us
here
with the vacancy reference number in the subject line so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
Working at Scottish Water
Scottish Water is one of the UK's leading water companies, the quality of drinking water and satisfaction with the service we provide our customers has never been higher - but we want to be even better – and you could help play an important part!
We take employee engagement very seriously and have an inclusive and collaborative work environment where we respect people’s differences. We are committed to creating an engaging environment and a positive experience for our employees.
We were recently recognised as a Top 10 Flexible Employer in Scotland at the Flexibility Works Awards 2021 and by The Times as a Top 50 Employer for Women in 2019.
In 2019 we also won the Age Inclusive Award at The Herald and GenAnalytics Diversity Awards and were winners of the Best Public Sector Employer at the Family Friendly Working Scotland Awards 2020.
We have Carers Positive Exemplary Status and were Silver Award 2019 & Gold Award winners 2020 of the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).
We aim for work to be an energising and fulfilling experience and everyone plays their part to ensure that Scottish Water is trusted to serve our customers and communities.
We are passionate about creating opportunities for young people and are proud to have achieved the Gold standard in the Investors in Young People accreditation, demonstrating our commitment to creating rewarding opportunities for young people.
You will have access to a host of benefits which include 38 days holiday a year, a defined benefit pension scheme, a discounted medical cash plan and cycle to work, plus a variety of agile working arrangements and family-friendly policies designed to support your wellbeing.
Next Steps
Any offer of employment with Scottish Water will be subject to the successful completion of a mandatory pre-employment screening process, including Disclosure Scotland and eligibility to work in the UK. Details can be found on our website.
For more information about this role or if you require any additional support throughout the application process please contact the recruitment team:
As part of our commitment to developing a flourishing Scotland, it is important that Scottish Water employees are resident in Scotland and contribute to the Scottish economy by paying Scottish income tax on their earnings. As a result we ask all potential employees to confirm that they are resident in Scotland, or to confirm their intentions to move to Scotland within 3 months of their start date.
Please note that candidates who have not submitted an application in the last 12 months will be automatically removed from our system records.
Scottish Water
www.scottishwater.co.uk
Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Douglas Millican
$500 million to $1 billion (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Government
Energy & Utilities
2002
