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As an interim Lead Configuration and Control Manager at UK's High Speed Rail Project you will lead on assuring the configuration management of the technical design and associated systems. Working within the System Engineering Team you will be responsible for developing robust requirements and integration and assurance frameworks that can provide an excellent level of configuration control. About the role: Develop design configuration management plans to manage the integration of the design between technical leads and suppliers and ensure the effective implementation of these plans for the Technical Directorate. Establish and maintain procedures, competence levels and systems in order to ensure a robust approach for integration assurance management within by the project. Provide training on HS2 configuration management processes and requirements to the HS2 team and suppliers to ensure appropriate practices are followed for project success. Engage with the wider HS2 Ltd assurance activity to achieve the delivery of an efficient and effective companywide configuration management system. Ensure effective configuration control of the design activities and the data contained within diverse HS2 data management systems including BIM, enterprise Bridge and specific technical tools such as DOORS, TRAIL and asset management; Engage with the Technical and Delivery teams to define the configuration activities and criteria for design approval. Demonstrate through validation and verification activities that the configuration of the design, physical implementation of equipment and operations are compliant with consistent baselines. Lead configuration management reviews, collating evidence and providing progress reports demonstrating the configuration control across the programme to specified baselines. About You: • Chartered Engineer or equivalent. • Demonstrable expertise in configuration management of complex systems in major projects. • Proven track record of successful client management within major projects; working with sponsors, regulatory bodies and other major stakeholders. • Demonstrable ability to deliver work under pressure and to tight deadlines. • Knowledge of the rail, construction and utility industries including their requirements and assurance needs. • Experience in software development and integration of IT systems. • Civil design and construction experience would be beneficial It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI

Solution Architect – Java – 9 month contract – Manchester - £650-£750 per day Amoria Bond are currently recruiting for an experienced Solution Architect with a background in Java development to involve within a highly motivated team as a key role, currently undergoing heavy investment into their technical and digital delivery teams. The aim is to deliver a new set of digital services across the organisation. The successful Architect will have extensive experience of designing solutions within an international organisation(s). The successful Solution Architect will have experience in the following: • Hands on experience in developing complex software solution, using a number of architectural frameworks (TOGAF, SOA etc.) • Agile environment experience (Scrum/Kanban/Hybrid) • Development background, Java (8+) • Full life cycle work including Integration of platforms (real time) • Identifying and Mitigating risks within Solution designs This is an incredible opportunity to work on behalf of an international organisation with an exciting and vibrant environment for a like-minded Solution Architect to excel along side a wealth of experience within the Java field. Key to success within this organisation will be exceptional communication skills and a proven track record in stakeholder management. Any interested candidates should forward an up to date CV to this advert for immediate interview. Amoria Bond operates as an employment agency and employment business. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirms that we are happy to accept applications from persons of any age for this role

Product Designer – Contract – London – Fintech - 6 months rolling – Rate DOE Product Designer – Contract – London – Fintech - 6 months rolling – Rate DOE My client, a blockchain business based in central London are looking for a digital product designer to join their product function. I am looking for a strong production orientated UI designer with a grounding in UCD principles. You will be involved in workshops and requirements gathering exercises however your role will be more around the design of everything from data heavy dashboards, real time trading interfaces and customer facing applications. Happy to discuss in a bit more detail, if you are interested please get in touch with Euan @ Plexus

Contract Groovy Developer We have a fantastic opportunity based in Central London for a full stack Java Developer with Groovy experience. If you have worked with Ruby, Scala, Clojure this would be an advantage but not essential. The role requires the ideal candidate to build, maintain and support high-quality software components in both D2C and B2B websites, targeting both mobile and desktop platforms Ideal candidates will have experience and knowledge in the following: * Sound understanding of fundamental CS concepts (data structures, algorithms, design patterns) * Excellent, in-depth Java knowledge * Commercial use of Java dynamic languages (ideally Groovy) * Building and consuming Rest APIs and services using common frameworks, e.g. Spring Boot * Building internet-facing web applications * Demonstrable commercial exposure to Agile development processes such as SCRUM, TDD Desirable Experience * Front-end development using JavaScript frameworks, e.g. jQuery, AngularJS, React * Building cloud-based software, e.g. AWS * Qualified to degree level (2:1 or above) * Understanding of insurance industry If you would be interested please get in touch as soon as possible, alternatively if you know someone who would be a great fit for this role we have a candidate referral scheme in place. Contract Groovy Developer At Tec Partners we are committed to being an inclusive organisation that provides equality of opportunity to all in terms of employment, recruitment and the service we provide to our customers. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age

As part of the evolution of the SAP landscape within our client, the BIS function have determined that in order to make the right short term tactical decisions around the updates or renewals of out / end of life of support components, there is a need to consider the longer term strategic roadmap for those processes and how they are supported by our applications. As part of this analysis, the SAP Roadmap team are looking to understand the business pain points and required business improvements which are required, whilst balancing this with the overall business strategy and direction for the next few years. As part of our early analysis from the Hire to Retire Process Architect (covering both HR and PY), we have identified a number of areas that require optimisation in our system, data and processes which needs to happen in order to bring our HR & Payroll processes to the level of efficiency we require. Main Duties: - Specific deliverables and activities: o Conduct detailed analysis and document detailed functional specifications to support the delivery of the business optimisations in the HR area. o Work with the Hire to Retire Process Architect to give a joined up view of how these Optimisations need to be delivered, alongside the broader HR and Finance improvements. o Identify training requirements o Develop training materials o Schedule and deliver training - Act under the leadership and guidance of the SAP Roadmap Programme Manager together with other members of the SAP Roadmap team. - Collaborate with all other work streams in SAP Roadmap and related Programmes to shape and develop agreed initiatives for deployment. - Review initiatives from other work streams, assess impacts on the HCM work stream, and provide advice and support on those solutions can best be implemented. - Maintain appropriate stakeholder management and employee engagement, in conjunction with the Programme Managers, throughout the journey. - Participate in regular team and business engagement meetings, and own certain aspects of these meetings. Skill. competencies, skills, knowledge: • Solid business acumen, able to identify ideas and opportunities for beneficial business improvement – and able to work with leadership and business stakeholders, plus technical support resource, to bring these ideas into fruition • Functionally competent in SAP HR&PY functionality at both an end-user level, and also with strong deep technical understanding for the relevant process areas to be able to lead specialist teams to carry out required Config/ development work. • Strong in business process design • Strong in all aspects of the project design/ test/ deploy lifecycle • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing abilities – for use both within the programme and strong links to other corporate initiatives within the business. • Strong in business-wide engagement, communication and training – and in particular in integrating with specialist teams who will provide delivery support in this area • A ‘completer-finisher’ – comfortable in taking accountability for ideas from inception to delivery, in an environment that requires robust metrics to confirm success Skills/Knowledge: Skills/Knowledge: • SAP modules relevant to specific E2E area (PA, OM, TM, CATS ) • Business process design (Lean Six Sigma a plus) • Design/ Build/ Test/ Deploy project lifecycle • Stakeholder communication and training Soft Skills: • Process centric • Results focused • Data driven • Fact based • Customer focused • Manages complexity • Embraces change For a confiential chat, or to recommend a potential candidate, please contact Jacob Bloom or James Smith on (Apply online only) or via email at/ By applying to this advert you are giving CPS Group (UK) Ltd authority to hold and process your data for this specific role and any other roles we may deem suitable to you over time. We will not pass your data to any third party without your verbal or written permission to do so. All incoming and outgoing calls are recorded for training and compliance purposes. CPS Group (UK) Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

AD OF FINANCE AND INVESTMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT – NORTH WEST £750 A DAY – 6 MONTHS MAY START Baltimore Consulting is currently seeking an experienced Senior Finance Professional To support the Director of Finance and Investment in ensuring the long term financial sustainability of the Council through the development of a robust Medium Term Financial Strategy The CCAB/CIMA qualified AD of Finance and Investment will: • Maximise income and investment opportunities for the Council by developing new and existing initiatives; and lead in the delivery of income generating programmes to support the Council’s commercial strategy • Ensure an effective finance business partnering function that both enables the council to meet its ambition through the pledges in the councils plan and ensures the effective financial stewardship, control and safeguarding of public funds to demonstrate value for money • To be the finance lead on new initiatives and projects that impact the future regeneration and improved economic outlook for the council alongside trusted partners • Lead the annual budget setting process to develop cost avoidance initiatives and savings proposals to ensure a balanced budget can be reported. To monitor the performance on achievement towards these proposals and cash limited budget in-year and ensure any mitigating action is taken where financial performance is off target • Manage the finance business partnering (FBP) function for the Accountancy Team ensuring Council priorities are adequately resourced and targeted. Ensure finance business partners are providing sufficient scrutiny and challenge to ensure the most cost-effective service is being provided • Maintain a corporate devolved financial management model so that budget holders are accountable for budgets and responsible for spending within their cash limits. Provide training and tools for budget holders to carry out this function on a quasi self-serve basis and take corrective action where necessary • Seek out income generating opportunities to support the Council’s commercial and investment strategy to minimise the impact on service delivery. Implement robust and regular reporting arrangements to the Cabinet & Strategic Leadership Team on achievement against targets and recommend corrective actions where they are under performing. The successful candidate will possess demonstrable successful delivery of ambitious programmes that have delivered financial benefits and have led on large scale projects to transform services and/or to transform places. Working as a senior manager in a complex financial environment and delivering in a political environment and managing and delivering cultural change to achieve priority outcomes in new and innovative ways. If you possess the experience required and are looking for an opportunity to maximise investment then please forward your CV or Call Suzanne Rudd for a confidential conversation on (Apply online only)

Finance Transformation Director required for a leading media organisation based in London. Experienced Required: * Experience Finance professional, who has a significant track record delivering end to end Finance Transformation programmes. * Proven track record reviewing, improving, streamlining a finance functions structure, finance processes, finance systems. * Significant experience in setting up SSC/Shared Services and/or Transition finance functions/roles into a SSC/Shared Services. * Strong project delivery background – end to end lifecycle experience. * Excellent communication, stakeholder management and relationship management skills. Finance Transformation / Project Management / Finance Transition

The Inspire Corporation are recruiting for a DevOps Engineer to join a FTSE100 who are currently undertaking a major transformation program in the infrastructure and operations space. Our client is in the process of standing up a number of new Enterprise level tools to monitor and manage a large Cloud fleet, and a smaller COLO hosted estate. For this, they are looking for an experience DevOps engineer who has excellent technical skills with experience of Cloud hosted services, and the deployment of Enterprise level tools, for monitoring, backup, patching and maintenance. Technology: ·Work closely with architecture in designing, planning, and building, maintaining and improving the Tools technology selected for use across the technology Systems ·Working with existing DevOps teams in an environment where standards and templates are becoming increasingly important, building Terraform and Puppet scripts to provision consumable artefacts ·Deploy standard monitoring toolsets to encompass, infrastructure monitoring, synthetic transaction monitoring, and Application Performance monitoring ·Configuring and implementing application and infrastructure monitoring in SAAS platforms (i.e. New Relic/Datadog/Cloudwatch/SignalFX). ·Integration of monitoring toolchains into Slack. ·Deploying infrastructure as code, using Terraform, Jenkins, Git and Puppet. ·Configuring Alerting in Pagerduty. ·Previous experience in integration between tooling (On-Prem and SAAS (Pager duty, New Relic, Tanium, FreshService, Slack) ·Engaging Vendors for support and configuration advice (via TAM). ·Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of processes and infrastructure Essential Skills Required: ·Strong AWS experience ·Experience of Enterprise tools design, build, and deployment (Monitoring, backup, Security, logging, solutions) ·Ability to integrate SAAS tools with webhooks and API's ·Experience in programming languages (Java, C#, Ruby, Python etc,)

Exciting new contract in South Germany for a huge client that are implementing SAP on a very large scale. You will be involved in the full lifecycle of the project, the design, implementation, testing and the support at the end. They are in the very early stages of the implementation so this is the perfect time for you to start! Sounds like a good project? There’s only one ‘sticking point’ in that you will need to speak fluent German, if you do then get your CV over ASAP and I will give you a call. Key Skills and experience SAP SAP IS-Retail SAP SCM Implementation project experience Fluent German speaking Daily Rate: Negotiable depending on experience Location: South Germany

PA Support / Receptionist Contract London To cover front desk duties and assist the facilities team on day-to-day activities ensuring both employees and visitors benefit from an efficient front of house team. The role is to conduct daily reception duties including checking visitors in, entry and exit protocols including issuing of security passes, operation of the office main switchboard and post room activities. Manage meeting rooms and hot desks and manage these as needed. Provide ad hoc PA support to visitors and members of the Aviation team as needed. These will include, but will not be limited to, booking travel, diary management and ad hoc administrative tasks. Responsibilities * Attend to visitors to ensure that their needs are met, including meeting attendees and hot desk users * Making tea/coffee for external visitors as needed * Assisting PA’s with lunch orders, both placing orders and setting up lunches as needed * Management of screening and re-directing incoming calls appropriately * Post room activities ensuring all incoming, outgoing post and couriers services are completed on a daily basis * To assist hosts booking in visitors, meeting rooms and hot desks as necessary * Booking Taxi’s as required * To welcome and greet visitors and contractors to the site * To consistently deliver better efficiencies and processes to enable the business to operate more effectively * Ensuring all visitors receive a positive experience when visiting the office * Maintain an accurate list building pass holders and inform your line manager of passes requiring deactivating * To promote and educate visitors on local and site Health & Safety * Provide PA Support as needed, including, but not limited to booking travel, filing, diary management * Ensure Company health, safety and environmental procedures are implemented and complied with at all times. * To provide support to the PAs and wider employees to ensure effective meeting room utilisation * Purchase stationery, office equipment and kitchen consumables as required * Additional ad-hoc secretarial/administrative tasks as required Requirements * Competent user on MS Windows operating system * Competent user on MS Office suite - including Word, Excel and PowerPoint * Competent user on internet and email systems using MS Outlook * Able to quickly learn new computer programmes and techniques provided * Excellent people skills * Excellent customer focus * Excellent team worker * Excellent diplomacy skills * Ability to liaise with a wide range of people professionally, confidently and competently * Ability to build relationships with employees and external stakeholders quickly