AMS PSR

On behalf of National Savings & Investments, we are looking for a PMO Finance Forecasting Manager - (Inside IR35) for an 11-month contract working on a hybrid basis and with an expectation of 2 days attendance in the London, Lytham St Annes, Glasgow, or Durham.

NS&I is one of the largest savings organisations in the UK with more than 24 million customers and over £218 billion invested. We are both a government department and an Executive Agency of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Our origins can be traced back more than 150 years to 1861.

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This role is subject to Baseline Personnel Security Standard and financial credit checks.

Role Overview

This role exists within the PMO of the Transformation Programme at NS&I to own, manage, and oversee the financial management process for the programme, ensuring that programme assumptions, decisions and changes are consistently reflected in financial forecasts and communicated effectively. The focus is on strategic financial oversight within the PMO, enabling joined-up discussions on spend, risks, opportunities, and challenges so the programme has a clear handle on its financial position.

As a PMO Finance Forecasting Manager - (Inside IR35) , your main responsibilities will be:

• Take end-to-end responsibility for the programme’s financial management process within the PMO, ensuring it is robust, transparent, and actively supports decision-making.
• Ensure programme assumptions and latest decisions are accurately fed through to those managing finances, maintaining consistency in forecasting across suppliers and workstreams.
• Drive joined-up discussions on forecast, spend, risks, opportunities, and challenges with programme leadership, enabling proactive financial management rather than reactive reporting.
• Work with the Commercial team to support and ensure Statements of Work (SoWs) align with programme financial forecasting actuals and contractual commitments. Work with Finance to ensure forecasts are reported on to meet deadlines.
• Support the redesign and embedding of financial management processes within the PMO to move beyond transactional data collection and towards strategic financial control. Create and establish the right practices in order to forecast, track and manage the programme spend against the different workstreams.
• Build strong relationships with teams such as Finance, Commercial, Programme Delivery and Enterprise Service Management in business-as-usual space to ensure processes are aligned and avoid duplication where appropriate.
• Act as the key PMO point of contact for finance-related matters, ensuring effective communication between programme teams and establishing relationships and regular dialogue with central Finance.

Skills and Experience 

• Ability to manage financial processes with strategic financial oversight at programme level, ensuring alignment with Civil Service governance and Managing Public Money principles.
• Advanced skills in forecasting, scenario modelling and variance analysis for complex, multi-supplier environments.
• Strong ability to engage and challenge senior stakeholders, driving accountability for financial decisions within the programme.
• Expertise in designing and implementing financial governance frameworks within programme delivery.
• Proficiency in financial reporting tools (Excel, Power BI) and familiarity with ERP systems.
• Forecasting in an agile delivery environment.
• Demonstrable experience managing finances within government, large-scale public sector programmes or a similar complex organisation.
• Proven track record of financial oversight in complex transformation programmes.
• Experience managing multi-supplier financial arrangements and Statement of Works (SoWs).
• Evidence of designing and embedding financial management processes that improve control and transparency.
• Experience producing high-quality financial reports for governance boards and senior leadership.

Essential

• Part Qualified as a minimum
• Experience of Microsoft Excel
• Stakeholder engagement experience
• Experience of working within a Change Management and Transformation environment
• Resilient
• Experience of working within a fast-paced environment

Desirable

• Experience of using Power Bi

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, NS&I guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant 

National Savings & Investments guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".