Senior Manager - Spend Review

Role Overview:

Managing the assessment and optimization of an organization's spending practices. The Senior Manager Spend Review play a crucial role in identifying cost-saving opportunities, improving efficiency, and ensuring compliance with spending policies.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership and guidance to the Spend Review team, and to the broader Budget Sector team
• Deliver the Spend Review annual plan and provide oversight to the team in delivery of the individual Spend Reviews
• Act as a Spend Review focal point for interacting with internal stakeholders and other Government entities
• Oversee the Spend Review annual plan including quantitative and qualitative analysis, and associated presentation materials
• Oversee the daily operations of multiple ongoing Spend Reviews, providing active support for resolving any problems or challenges
• Review the daily outputs of the team, provide both technical and managerial feedback
• Work with the Spend Review team and any consultants to deliver the objectives for each Spend Review
• Build and review financial and operational models to deep dive government operations performance
• Build decision support presentations including context setting, research overview, scenario analysis, impact assessments, and recommendations
• Collaborate with different government entities to ensure data gathering is accurately captured and shared
• Lead Spend Review workshops with Government entities
• Ensure the development of appropriate policies, procedures, and processes for Spend Reviews in order to achieve the respective objectives
• Actively seek opportunities for process improvement in delivering the Spend Reviews
• Liaise internally to ensure that the Spend Review outputs are adequately captured in the annual budget process

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in the field of Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or its equivalent
• A Professional certification such as Certified Management Accountant (CMA) or Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) is preferred.

Years of experience and required qualifications.

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in similar position or filed.