Senior Business Case Author
- Location: Hybrid with London Head Office
- Salary: £75000 - £80,000
- Type: Permanent
- Start Date: April 29 2024
- Ref Number: 0408202501
Key Accountabilities:
Drafting and securing approval of complex, multi million pound, TGB business cases on a first pass basis, enabling our client to achieve its objectives while demonstrating a structured approach and astute commercial thinking, as part of demonstrating value for money. This includes:
- Breaking down complex problems to understand the core problem statement; identifying appropriate delivery strategies; developing cost models and multi-criteria decision analysis; ascertaining a robust baseline for the measurement of benefits; expert planning skills with the ability to map out critical dependencies and constraints.
- Develop a network of stakeholders inside and outside of the organisation to capture and challenge assumptions, plan and co-ordinate specialist inputs from across functions and subject-matter experts.
- Building financial models that capture the costs, benefits, risks, optimism bias and net present values for options in the Economic Case and the funding requirements for the Financial Case.
Performing sensitivity analyses on model inputs to simulate scenarios that have the potential to impact project outcomes.
- Plan and host workshops with key stakeholders to draw out the inputs needed to develop each business case and the associated models.
- Lead business case briefings and reviews with senior stakeholders, addressing any feedback and implementing changes with the goal of achieving business case approval.
- Coordinate with the Customer Engagement team and Regulatory Affairs to build customer understanding and support for business case recommendations.
- Manage/update modelling templates and processes, suggesting improvements for where the organisation can develop more efficient and accurate ways of working.
- Manage and monitor own business case progress to ensure delivery timescales can be met, communicating risks or potential issues to the Director of Business Case Development.
- Support the organisation with external stakeholder engagements, such as with DESNZ and Ofgem, where required.
- Promote best practice and consistency across business cases by sharing and adopting key learnings.
- Assist other colleagues in the internal business case development capability, as and when required.
Skills and Experiences - Essential:
- > 5-10 years experience of producing high-quality, multi-million pound, complex business cases, with fluency across all areas of HMT’s 5 Case Model.
- Developing accurate financial models for financial risk assessment, affordability and scenario analysis, working with business owners to capture and record modelling assumptions for the financial case.
- Understand and develop economic models for Optimism Bias, Sensitivity Analysis, net present value, and other econometric and statistical modes dependent on the proposal.
- Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, and an ability to communicate confidently and effectively with customers and internal stakeholders.
- Good attention to detail, accuracy and efficiency in written and verbal communication with an ability to quickly interpret detail and establish key relevant points.
- Strong planning and time management skills.
- Self-awareness and an ability to adapt style and approach as required to the task and environment.
- A willingness to develop professionally by seeking and acting on colleague feedback.
Skills and Experiences - Desirable
- Experience of working within the energy, IT, or telecoms sector, and familiarity with operating in a complex technology environment.
- Experience of UK energy sector and the smart metering programme.
- Experience of working with Government and with Industry Regulators.
- Experience in public sector procurement or certification in a relevant business case qualification such as Better Business Cases.
- Proven experience of developing numerical models using Microsoft Excel or equivalent.