Business Unit Manager Job In Portsmouth

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Do you have a keen interest in figures, with an understanding of financial management and control?
Do you have a methodical mind, with the ability to solve problems and make effective decisions?
Are you passionate about creating a great team environment?
If so we are looking for a Business Unit Manager and would love to hear from you!
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) implements the government's maritime safety policy in the United Kingdom and works to prevent the loss of life and occurrence of pollution on the coast and at sea.
Safer lives. Safer Ships. Cleaner Seas.
Our vision is to be a world-leading organisation, accelerating the transition to sustainable shipping with non-negotiable safety standards. We put our people, our customers and our planet at the heart of everything we do.
Job description
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) implements the government's maritime safety policy in the United Kingdom and works to prevent the loss of life and occurrence of pollution on the coast and at sea.
This role is within the Seafarer Training and Certification Branch (STC) which centers around the skills and qualifications of seafarers working on UK vessels. STC ensures the appropriate standards of seafarer training are maintained and that certificates and endorsements issued to seafarers and vessels comply with the relevant requirements while also providing a high level of customer satisfaction.
The STC branch assess and issue certificates and endorsements to seafarers. The Business Unit Manager's role purpose is primarily to oversee and lead improvements on 3 key areas: Data, Finance and Recruitment. The role will innovate, capture, analyse and present management information and business performance data to ensure key stakeholders, at a range of seniority, have a clear and transparent understanding of performance which will be used to drive present and future business decisions. This will involve the modernization and automation of data capture and presentation through applications such as Microsoft Excel and eventually Power BI.
The role will provide accurate, detailed and robust financial forecasts using available data and from engaging with relative stakeholders across the business area. This will be used to present to stakeholders and create and track budgets.
The role of the Business Unit Manager will also support the branch by tracking and managing resourcing and recruitment, procurement. It will develop detailed records to allow accurate tracking of activity. The role will lead and be supported by a small team who will cover business and finance admin tasks.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the MCA and lead from the front to shape a new business area. You will have the autonomy to share your own ideas and new ways of working within a diverse and varied environment. It will be a chance for you to build on exiting's skills and knowledge in 'recruitment, data and finance as well as developing others.
This role will be based in the Southampton supports flexible working and operates a hybrid working model between home and office for this role, giving you greater flexibility over where and when you work . Details of the arrangement will be discussed further with your line manager.
There may be requirement for occasional national travel, however notice will be given prior to travel.
Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
'Recruitment:

• Engaging with resourcing and recruitment colleagues to set up recruitment campaigns, to schedule and conduct interviews and complete the onboarding process where required
• Oversee and support other colleagues running recruitment campaigns championing best practice and civil service recruitment principals

Performance & Quality / Data:

• Create, capture and continually improve data for the Certification Operations management team to use to identify quality targets, measure certification performance and improve overall efficiency
• Chair monthly Performance & Quality Meetings and present branch quality and productivity performance to range of stakeholders at varying levels of seniority
• Create, maintain and innovate Service Level Agreement adherence reporting data, flagging any anomalous or incorrect data
• Analysis of work trends to assess demand and work streams, providing key indicators of service demand that feed into the development of the project
• Analyse and report on STC phoneline performance reports
• Create, maintain and innovate data and management information dashboards to provide relevant performance data

Finance & Procurement:

• Track and monitor branch spending including agency workers, stationary, printing supplies etc keeping detailed records to be used to calculate monthly prepayments and accruals
• Support project owners with finance queries to ensure spends align with budgets and work packages
• Use existing data and stakeholder engagement to create detailed spend and income forecasts
• Monitor spends against budgets, understand over/under spends and report to relevant stakeholders
• Brief senior managers on financial activity prior to the monthly Assistant Director's Finance Meeting, attending when necessary
• Compile forecast data to create detailed and accurate budget plans for the coming years
• Undertake procurement for the branch, working with the Contracts/Procurement team to purchase goods in line with Civil Service guidelines

Line Management:

• Act as Line Manager to the Finance Team Leader and the Business Unit Officer ensuring completion of performance reviews, identifying training/development needs and the setting of challenging and relevant objectives aligned to the MCA Business Plan and to the annual targets that the branch must achieve
• Encourage a culture of continual improvement and innovation of current processes

For further information about the role, please see the attached.
Person specification
About you:
To be successful in this role, you will need to have experience of leading a team through change and continual improvement, identifying areas for improvement and simplify processes. You will be a passionate and confident leader, with a proven track record of success in a people management and able to make decisions.
You are someone who thrives in a fast-paced, busy environment, where you can use your organisational skills to manage multiple, and often conflicting tasks on time and to a high standard.
You will have experience of capturing and analysing data to use to present a clear and concise picture to a range of stakeholders and can monitor and manage finances with ease.
Using Microsoft Excel will come naturally to you. In particular providing management information visuals (charts and graphs), data recording, common formulas (VLOOKUP, COUNTIF, IFS etc), formatting data sets for presentation, data organization and financial calculations.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together

Benefits
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
How to Apply
Within your CV and personal statement please demonstrate your knowledge and experience of:

• Using Microsoft Excel to an intermediate level. This will include providing management information visuals (charts and graphs), data recording, common formulas (VLOOKUP, COUNTIF, IFS etc), formatting data sets for presentation, data organization and financial calculations.
• Monitoring and managing finances.
• Leading a team through change and continual improvement, identifying areas for improvement and simplify processes.
• Capturing and analysing data to use to present a clear and concise picture to a range of stakeholders.

Your personal statement will be limited to a maximum of 1,250 words.
The sift is due to take place on 23rd & 24th March 2023.
Interviews/assessments are likely to be held between 5th - 7th April 2023.
This interview could be conducted online via Teams or face to face at one of our offices. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:

• An interview with a presentation

You're encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
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