You will assists the IT Team providing Vendor/Commercial Management support across High Seed Two's 70 IT contracts. Working within the IT Office within the Finance and Commercial Department of High Speed 2. The IT Vendor Management Team engages with supply chain to ensure it is appropriately engaged, informed and visible, from pre-procurement through to procurement and contract delivery. You will in regular contact with procurement staff to discuss new contract/contract renewal activities, IT Delivery Managers to discuss new contract call-off requests and finance personal to discuss budget, forecast and accruals within IT. You will balance a wide range of responsibilities some with critical timescales and conflicting priorities. You will develop procurement submissions for new projects and renewal of existing contracts as well as managing the end to end process of raising requisition through to invoice receipting. Duties and Responsibilities Manages the procurement of goods and services up to £10k Advises on different procurement routes to acquire services and products Financial management, control and stewardship of the IT assets and resources used in the provision of IT services, including the identification of materials, ensuring compliance with all governance, legal and regulatory requirements. This includes financial activities such as tracking contract costs and accruals. Raises and maintains Purchase requisitions on company's ERP system. Uses knowledge of supplier markets to inform specifications Evaluates and selects suppliers based on the specification and evaluation criteria Performs defined tasks to monitor service delivery against service level agreements, maintains records of relevant information and identifies actions required to maintain or improve levels of service, and initiates or reports these actions Maintains and updates the IT Accruals, Actuals and Spend against the overall Operational Business Plan Identifies and manages external suppliers to ensure successful delivery of products and services required by the business Required Criteria The key aspects of the role are you have: Good background in Finance: Accounts Payable, Accruals, Budget Planning needs to have experience in Budget Planning/Forecasting/Accruals Receipting of invoices ideally through Oracle or another ERP system Strong Excel skills Previous Public Sector experience Skills: Contract and commercial management skills Financial skills including invoice receipting Able to build and maintain working relationships and effective channels of communication Ability to identify gaps in the available information required to understand a problem or situation and devising means of remedying accordingly Ability to complete allocated tasks to agreed deadlines and standards. Ability to analyse and report of financial costs, forecasts and accruals against budgets Knowledge: Knowledge of standards, policies, processes and frameworks in use in IT Knowledge of ERP systems such as Oracle/SAP or others Understanding of the metrics associated with a problem or situation, their significance and relationship, and being able to manipulate these as necessary to identify solutions Microsoft Office suite at an intermediate level, as a minimum Would be helpful (not essential): Experience of broad range of IT products and/or services supplied by external suppliers, e.g. maintenance of IT infrastructure, maintenance of IT applications, internet connectivity services, system development, software products Please note looking for a quick start (1 week turnaround) contract intially for 3 months