Reporting Manager - Defence

Mace; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Hybrid working

Medical health cover

Life insurance

Income protection insurance

Pension scheme

Discretionary annual salary reviews

Family friendly policies

22 days annual leave + 2 Mace days + 3

Job summary

Mace is seeking an experienced Reporting Manager to join the Defence team in Reading or London, delivering robust project controls, governance and timely reporting in a highly regulated Defence programme.

You will be the focal point for month-end reports, coordinate dashboards with technical experts, and drive improvements in reporting processes while supporting project delivery and stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience in a project controls/PMO environment and reporting.
• Excellent communication and ability to simplify updates for senior levels.
• Knowledge of project controls processes: reporting, risk, cost, schedule, change management.
• Interest in developing a career in project controls.
• Experience using Power BI, Foundry, Excel for project data.
• Strong attention to detail and information accuracy.
• Experience maintaining trackers, MI and reporting outputs.
• Strong organisational and stakeholder management in complex projects.
• Experience in Defence, Nuclear, Construction or highly regulated sectors is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Act as the focal point for month-end reports across portfolio, programme, PMO, supply chain and senior management.
• Produce accurate, timely project reporting and ensure monthly contributions from others.
• Support project controls governance, change control and baseline management.
• Represent project interests in reporting improvement initiatives across programme and portfolio.
• Coordinate development of dashboards with Power BI/technical experts.
• Influence adoption of new reporting processes for better visibility of progress.
• Maintain project reporting archive folders and files.
• Liaise with Project Managers and senior leaders to support delivery.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes and project controls performance.
• Support Project Manager and delivery team with controls.
• Organise governance forums and project meetings; maintain calendar and schedule.
• Attend key meetings and capture decisions, actions and outputs; track escalations.

Skills

Project controls

Communication

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Power BI

Foundry

Excel

Regulated environment experience

Tools

Power BI

Foundry

Excel

Job description

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.

We are looking for an experienced Reporting Manager to join our Defence team in Reading or London, supporting the delivery of a major programme within a highly regulated environment. Working as part of an integrated programme delivery team, you will play a key role in supporting project controls, governance and reporting activities, ensuring accurate information, effective stakeholder engagement and robust programme oversight. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a complex defence programme while driving high standards of reporting, coordination and continuous improvement.

Due to the security requirements of the role, candidates must have SC clearance or eligibility to obtain and maintain Security Clearance

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Acting as the focal point for the project’s month end reports, across portfolio, programme, PMO, supply chain and senior management
• Producing accurate and timely project reporting information. Ensuring that others contribute to the project reporting process on time, every month.
• Supporting project controls governance, change control and baseline management activities.
• Representing project interests as part of wider reporting continuous improvement initiatives within the wider programme and portfolio.
• Directing ad hoc requests for new/ dashboards or amendments to dashboards and coordinating development with Power BI/ Technical experts.
• Influencing wider stakeholder buy-in and adoption of new reporting processes or tools to enable enhanced visibility and understanding of project progress.
• Support in maintaining reporting project archive folders and files.
• Liaising with Project Managers, the Integration Director and Project Controls Manager to support delivery.
• Identifying opportunities to improve reporting processes and project controls performance.
• Providing project controls support to the Project Manager and wider delivery team.
• Organising and coordinating governance forums and project meetings.
• Maintaining the project calendar and reporting schedule.
• Attending key project meetings and capturing decisions, actions and outputs.
• Tracking actions and escalations and ensuring timely completion by relevant stakeholders.

You’ll Need To Have

• Demonstrated experience within a project controls, PMO or project management environment
• Excellent communication skills & an inquisitive nature - able to engage with a wide variety of people, listen to project updates and simplify for succinct reporting at various levels of the organisation.
• Knowledge of project controls processes, including reporting, risk, cost, schedule and change management.
• An interest and desire to develop your career within project controls.
• Experience using reporting tools (Power BI, Foundry, Excel) and managing project data.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to validate and assure information accuracy.
• Experience maintaining trackers, actions, management information and reporting outputs.
• Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills within complex project environments.
• Experience within Defence, Nuclear, Construction or other highly regulated sectors is desirable. Knowledge of NEC contracts would be advantageous.

What's On Offer

• Car allowance.
• Hybrid working.
• Medical health cover.
• Life insurance.
• Income protection insurance.
• Pension scheme.
• Discretionary annual salary reviews.
• Family friendly policies.
• 22 days annual leave + 2 Mace days + 3 days Christmas shutdown + 1 additional day leave for every 2 years of service + Bank holidays.

Our values

Safety first - Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.

Client focus - Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.

Integrity - Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.

Create opportunity - For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates.

We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable with-in the role.