Assistant Manager- Governance & Reporting

Date: 21 Mar 2024 Location: Noida, South Asia, IN Company: British Council

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Job Title: Assistant Manager, Governance and Reporting
Purpose of job:
We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented professional to join our team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting and enhancing our project management processes, ensuring alignment with organisational goals, and facilitating effective communication among project teams.


Main opportunities/challenges for this role


Accountabilities, responsibilities and main duties:

• Balanced Scorecard for deliveries and General management
• Establish, implement, and maintain balanced scorecards for all the delivery and general management functions.
• Supports new functions and departments in setting up right governance and scorecards for effective monitoring and control.
• Analyse the scorecards of the departments and identify priorities for discussion and improvement.
• Governance of Strategic annual plans:
• Participate in strategic annual planning of SSC and contribute by highlighting strengths and opportunities to focus.
• Set up governance and reporting mechanism for annual plans.
• Maintain records of monthly governance for audits and controls review.
• Management of Leadership Governance meetings:
• Responsible of presenting the scorecards through effective dashboards and presentations for the Senior leadership.
• Create smart presentations for leadership team for operations board, internal reviews, board meetings and other stakeholder meetings.
• Process audits:
• Conduct process audits against governance dashboards and report to management on strengths and weaknesses.
• Conduct periodic project reviews to assess compliance with project management standards.
• Implement quality assurance measures to enhance the overall effectiveness of project delivery.
• Trainings:
• Create capabilities across SSC by training team leaders and managers on effective governance techniques and reporting methodologies.
• Process Improvement:
• Continuously evaluate and improve project management processes and tools to enhance efficiency.
• Provide recommendations for process optimisation and standardisation across projects.
• Communication and Collaboration:
• Foster effective communication among project teams and stakeholders.
• Coordinate regular project meetings, ensuring that actions and decisions are documented and communicated.

Key Relationships:

• Managing Director and Head of Departments
• Director Operations and other global stakeholders
• Project owners

Qualifications - Graduate


Role specific knowledge and experience

• To work closely with the leadership team
• To support with the organisation\xe2\x80\x99s goals and strategy
• To manage multiple workstreams with different priorities and workflows.
• To work in an environment of continuous learning

Minimum Essentials

• Experience in project management or project coordination roles.
• Proficiency Balanced Scorecard
• Excellent in strategic level presentations and creation of white papers for board meetings and other governance review meetings
• Expert in in MS Excel (with macros and other automation skills) and SharePoint
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.

Desirable

• Experience within a global organisation
• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in business administration, Project Management, or a related field.
• Experience with at least one analytic tool

Further Information


Pay Band \xe2\x80\x93 6
Contract Type \xe2\x80\x93 IDC
Department/Country- GSS General Management (Communication & Branding)/ India \xe2\x80\x93 Noida
Closing Date (Time) \xe2\x80\x93 5 Apr 24 (IST -23:59)


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