Business Operations Officer

This Role: Business Operations Officer known internally as a "Portfolio Support Officer"

Location: Farringdon - EC1N 8JS

Contract basis - Fixed Term for a 12 month period

Salary: £34,200 to £36,000 based on a 37.5hr working week

A fixed term contract opportunity has arisen within our Portfolio Management Team. It is an exciting and busy time of change within MTVH.

This role supports our technology department and portfolio office in a busy working environment.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Extraction of performance data from various formats and creation of monthly and quarterly performance reports
• A broad range of finance administration duties including the processing of purchase orders, dealing with invoice queries, setting up new suppliers and reconciling corporate purchase cards.
• Supporting with quarterly and year end budget reconciliations for individual Projects and across the Technology Directorate.
• Maintaining a central Portfolio repository and Sharepoint site
• Providing guidance to Project Managers concerning our governance framework, ensuring templates are up to date and documents and decisions are recorded centrally
• Communication and engagement with colleagues across MTVH, promoting achievements and information across the Technology Directorate through regular communications.

What you'll need to succeed

• Excellent verbal, written and numerate skills
• Outstanding attention to detail, thoroughness and accuracy
• Experience of producing reports and displaying performance information in various formats
• The ability to organise and prioritise workload
• Excellent time-management skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities and deadlines
• Organisation of meetings including agenda management and minute taking
• Experience of MS Office applications including competency in Excel
• Experience of Oracle Finance system would be an advantage
• Previous relevant work experience in a support role providing a service to a team or customers

Interview Diary Date: To be advised

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What?s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.