Project Control Officer

Certes; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Certes is seeking a Project Control Officer (DV Cleared) to support a government portfolio of projects in a busy delivery environment. You will assist the Project Manager with supplier orders, invoices, planning, financial management, documentation and reporting.

The role requires strong drafting, numeracy and MS Project skills, plus Prince2/APM qualifications or equivalent. You will work within a team to manage risks, budgets and project delivery timelines.

Qualifications

• Good interpersonal and team player skills.
• Good drafting skills such as minute taking.
• Good numerical and project financial skills.
• Able to manage and prioritise workload and time effectively.
• Proficient with MS Word, Outlook and Excel.
• MS Project 2007.
• APM Fundamentals or Prince2 Foundation/Practitioner qualification and experience.
• Knowledge of Oracle financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive project support service directly supporting Programme Managers and Project Managers.
• Act as point of contact for internal and external customers, responding promptly to queries.
• Organise and manage dates and documentation for programme and project meetings.
• Attend internal IT meetings, formulate and circulate agendas and action lists.
• Oversee risks and issues management.
• Ensure compliance to commercial gate review process and prepare documentation as needed.
• Develop and monitor projects, check output quality and alignment with business requirements.
• Monitor delivery of work streams against plans, chase progress when needed.
• Represent the Project Manager at meetings as requested.
• Administer, monitor and report on project budgets according to client processes and timetables.
• Track actual costs against budgets and produce monthly reports.
• Create or maintain project plans using MS Project.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Minute taking

Project financial skills

Workload prioritisation

MS Word/Outlook/Excel

MS Project 2007

Prince2/APM certs

Oracle financials

Tools

MS Project 2007

Oracle Financial Systems

Job description

IR35 Status: Inside

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Role Overview

A Project Control Officer (DV Cleared) is required for our government client to assist on a portfolio of projects.

You will provide project delivery within the Project Management team and provide support to the Project Manager relating to supplier orders and invoices, project planning, project financial management, project documentation and reporting.This is a varied role which is essential to allow the Project Manager’s to fully concentrate on the delivery of their projects and the the role will involve working in a busy project environment working to time scales that may be extremely tight.

Essential Skills & Experience required:

As the Project Control Officer (DV Cleared) you will possess the following:

Good interpersonal and team player skills

Good drafting skills such as minute taking.

Good numerical and project financial skills

Able to manage and prioritise your workload and time effectively and being able to respond to changing priorities.

Proficient with core applications such as MS Word, Outlook and Excel.

MS Project 2007

Previous experience of working within a project environment, ideally supporting either large projects or multiple smaller projects within government departments is desirable

APM Fundamentals or Prince 2 Foundation or Practitioner qualification and experience

Would be any knowledge of Oracle financial systems

Responsibilities include:

• To provide a comprehensive project support service directly supporting Programme Managers and Project Managers
• Act as point of contact in the team for internal and external customers, responding promptly to queries
• Organise and manage dates and documentation for programme and project meetings
• Organise and attend relevant internal IT meetings, including formulating and circulating agendas and action lists
• Oversee Risks and Issues management
• Ensuring compliance to commercial gate review process including where necessary preparation of documentation.
• To play a key role in the development and monitoring of projects, checking quality of output and compliance with business requirements, including commitments in proposals
• Monitor the delivery of work streams against plans, chasing and challenging progress as appropriate.
• Represent the Project Manager at meetings as requested.
• Administer, monitor and report on projects budgets in accordance with the Clients processes and timetables.
• Responsible for tracking actual project costs against allocated budgets and producing monthly reports
• Create or maintain project plans using MS Project.