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Job description / Role
Provide expert financial modelling in the bidding environment, including analysis and proposals to enhance / improve the modelling process, templates and approach.
The role involves working within the Commercial team to provide dedicated, high quality commercial bid resource across all Business Units within the division.
Day to day this means working with bids teams to develop and populate cost models that satisfy internal governance requirements and allows the optimal pricing to be determined to provide to customers alongside our proposed technical solution for outsourced Contracts.
Key Accountability:
Strategy and Plans
- Developing and recommending enhancements to the current Bid Modelling process
- Deliver robust financial models to support the bidding activity across all business units within Serco ME by engaging with experts across the business
- Play a role in ensuring compliance across SME with Serco Group policy and standards relating to financial modelling
- Assist in developing and implementing financial modelling best practice across SME
Growth and Financials
- Work within bid teams to deliver financial models, costs, price and detailed scenario analysis for bids
- Assist in developing data manipulation capability beyond the modelling of financial data, in order to support emerging commercial propositions across the business
- Assist in the delivery of a cost effective model audit capability, and the implementation of a suite of pre-audited financial models for wider use across the contract base
- Exercise delegated authority over the approval of financial models, as required
Organisation and People
- Maintain expertise in financial reporting requirements
- Educate and train other members of the commercial team and the wider F&C community
- Contribute to discussions on Model outputs throughout the Bid Process to ensure understanding and compliance with modelled elements.
Requirements
The ideal candidate must have a relevant Bachelor degree in accounting or Business Management with relevant professional financial qualification. Must have a strong intellect. Expert financial modelling ability / aptitude to develop expert bid financial modelling ability, expert excel skills / aptitude to develop. Has a capacity to handle demanding and fluctuating workload with thoroughness and attention to detail with a steadiness under pressure. Strong Communication skills to work with a range of people across the business. Team player with energy and tenacity.
Desirable to have an experience of effective working in bid teams, financial reporting expertise, use of statistical risk analysis tools and understanding of insurance, employment law etc.
About the Company
Serco is a FTSE 250 international service company which combines commercial know-how with a deep public service ethos.
Serco customers are looking for expertise in managing their people, processes, technology and assets more effectively. We advise economic decision makers, design innovative solutions, integrate systems and - most of all - deliver quality services directly to the public.
Serco supplies to governments, government enterprise, agencies and companies who seek a trusted outsourcing partner with a solid track-record of service excellence. Serco people offer operational, logistical and technical expertise in the Transport, Justice and Immigration, Defence, Education and Healthcare industries as well as in the commercial sectors of Facilities Management.
Serco Middle East have been in the Region since 1947, starting out delivering Air Traffic Control Services in Bahrain; a service we are proudly still running today and have expanded to include many other Airports in the region.
We have expanded significantly since that time across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. We have been supporting the RTA to operate the Dubai Metro since 2009, are preparing to launch the flagship Saudi Arabia Passenger Rail service from Riyadh to Qassim in 2016. We deliver Facility Management services to both Cleveland Clinic and Healthpoint Hospitals in Abu Dhabi, large-scale medical facilities in Saudi Arabia and a range of educational and commercial properties in the UAE. We also deliver postgraduate education to Officers in the Qatar Armed Forces through the Joaan Bin Jassim Joint Command and Staff College in Doha.
Focusing on our core values, and creating a positive environment for employees to thrive, we look forward to a bright future as we continue to grow with the region.