Project Control Officer/PSO-financial Hybrid, SC £375 pd Umbrella

Project Control Officer/Project Support/PSO - for one of our Government clients. 3 days onsite working near Milton Keynes for 6 months initially - Rate £375 p/d Inside IR35Umbrella

Our client is based near Milton Keynes - commutable from Northampton, East Midlands, Bedford, Luton or Central London. They are offering hybrid working, with 3 days per week onsite.

This role is working in a Security Cleared environment. You will need to be SC or DV (developed vetting) cleared or eligible to undertake SC or DV Security Clearance.

You will provide project delivery within Project Management team to Engineering Operations. Providing support to the Project Manager relating to supplier orders and invoices, project planning, project financial management, project documentation and reporting.

To provide a comprehensive project support service directly supporting Programme Managers and Project Managers

Act as point of contact in the team for internal and external customers, responding promptly to queries

Organise and manage dates and documentation for programme and project meetings

Organise and attend relevant internal IT meetings, including formulating and circulating agendas and action lists

Oversee Risks and Issues management

Ensuring compliance to commercial gate review process including where necessary preparation of documentation.

To play a key role in the development and monitoring of projects, checking quality of output and compliance with business requirements, including commitments in proposals

Monitor the delivery of work streams against plans, chasing and challenging progress as appropriate.

Represent the Project Manager at meetings as requested.

Administer, monitor and report on projects budgets in accordance with clients Service processes and timetables.

Responsible for tracking actual project costs against allocated budgets and producing monthly reports

Create or maintain project plans using MS Project.

Mandatory Experience Required

• Good interpersonal and team player skills, working well with others and delivering results.
• Good drafting skills such as minute taking.
• Good numerical and project financial skills
• Good organisational skills.
• Managing and prioritising workload and time effectively and being able to respond to changing priorities.
• Must be experienced with core applications such as MS Word, Outlook and Excel.
• Must have MS Project 2007
• Working in a project environment, ideally supporting either large projects or multiple smaller projects
• APM Fundamentals or Prince 2 Foundation or Practitioner qualification and experience

Desirable

• Knowledge of Oracle financial systems.