Assistant Executive Manager

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Job Title: Assistant Executive Manager (Band 2) Salary: Circa £40,000 (dependent on skill, knowledge and experience) Contract Type: TfL Permanent / Full Time / Hybrid Location: Southwark (including various TfL sites across London) Reference: SF4996 Hybrid working, within this role enables a balance of 50% of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 19 August @ 23:59

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Overview of Role Transport for London (TfL) plays a key role in shaping what life is like in London. Our transport infrastructure and public transport network is admired around the world. We’re literally changing London for the future – making it one of the best cities to live, work and visit. Over 3 billion journeys are made across our transport network annually; and we do all that we can to keep our city moving, growing and working. To meet the needs of our customers, now and for the future, we’re providing the modern and affordable transport network London needs. To support this, our multi-billion-pound programme to make our services more reliable, frequent and accessible includes introducing new trains, building and opening a new road tunnel under the Thames, and investing in congestion and air quality initiatives on our roads through our healthy streets approach.

Our finance function continues to evolve to ensure a sharp focus on TfL’s core business priorities. We’re doing this by building a strong Chief Finance Officer (CFO) team, integrating Finance, Technology Products and Operations (TP&O) and Procurement and Commercial to provide stronger strategic and commercial excellence across our business. Finance is central to TfL’s vision and values, progressing our strategy across the five themes of Safety and Security, Our Colleagues, Our Customers, Our Green Future and Our Finances.

We’re now seeking an Assistant Executive Manager to join our busy team.

The CFO Governance team is responsible for ensuring appropriate assurance and approvals around our commercial decisions take place within the Procurement & Commercial and Finance functions.

You’ll support the CFO Governance Managers in developing and implementing a range of business controls, standards, and new initiatives in relation to governance and assurance processes for CFO, put in place by the CFO Senior Leadership Team and Chief Finance Officer, ensuring that these processes deliver the required outcomes, and support effective decision-making by TfL’s Senior Leadership Team.

Key Accountabilities Your duties will include, but not be limited to:

• Providing support on governance matters for a respective office area, working with other Executive Office role holders to deliver activities in a timely and effective manner, including servicing key decision-making forums and supporting accurate outputs to tight deadlines
• Accountable for the efficient co-ordination and maintaining of information, documents and records for the respective directorate or office including secretariat, minutes, decision logs and audit trails
• Responsible for supporting in the management and delivery of internal administrative processes within the directorate or office, including coordination of governance cycles, tracking approvals and business submissions
• Responsible for the ownership and improvement of effective systems for effective handling of work (e.g. trackers, workflows, action logs), internally and across directorate areas, ensuring compliance with management system rules
• Accountable for providing support to the office in facilitating engagement with internal and external stakeholders on matters impacting decision-making
• Accountable for supporting the office in preparing information for Business continuity planning and wider assur…