Business Support Officer in Salfords

When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

Business Unit: Cubic Transportation Systems

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Job Summary

The Business Support Officer provides analytical, coordination, and governance support to the EMEA leadership team. This role is well suited to an early‑career professional with a strong academic foundation in Business, Economics, or a related discipline, and 2–3 years’ experience in a business, finance, operations, or consulting environment. The role supports effective decision‑making through high‑quality management information, structured governance, and cross‑functional coordination across the region.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the production and maintenance of the monthly MI and EMEA Business Review deck, working with functional teams to gather inputs, and ensure consistency.
• Support analysis and reporting across:
  • Profit & Loss (P&L)
  • Value Creation Plan (VCP)
  • Growth metrics
  • Change Orders
  • Headcount
  • Risks and issues
• Maintain the risk and issue register, ensuring risks are clearly documented, owned, and tracked.
• Support the adoption and effective use of AI‑enabled tools across the EMEA business to improve productivity, reporting quality, and decision‑making.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive administrative and reporting activities, working with functional teams to improve efficiency and consistency.
• Promote best practices for the responsible and secure use of AI in line with company policies, data privacy requirements, and governance frameworks.
• Provide structured support to change programmes, helping track progress, actions, and key milestones.
• Ensure governance standards are followed and key information is accurately recorded.
• Own action tracking across EMEA, ensuring actions from leadership meetings and reviews are logged, monitored, and followed up.
• Work with stakeholders across departments to drive timely updates and closure.
• Support meeting governance, including agenda coordination, materials preparation, note‑taking, and follow‑up actions.
• Help ensure meetings are well‑structured and outputs are clearly captured.
• Assist with the preparation of external presentation materials for customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
• Support senior leaders with clear, accurate, and professional presentation content as required.

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
• 2–3 years’ professional experience in a business, finance, operations, consulting, or analytical role.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work confidently with data and metrics.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel (or equivalent tools).
• Experience using AI‑powered productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Power BI AI capabilities, or similar) to enhance reporting, analysis, and business operations.
• Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for process improvement through automation, digitalisation, and AI technologies.

Desirable

• Exposure to financial reporting (e.g. P&L, headcount, forecasts).
• Experience supporting senior stakeholders or leadership forums.
• Familiarity with change initiatives, governance, or programme support.

Personal Attributes

• Highly organised and structured, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams.
• Curious and keen to understand how the business operates end‑to‑end.
• Comfortable working across functions and geographies.
• Proactive, reliable, and able to work with a high degree of professionalism.

Development Opportunity

This role offers strong exposure to EMEA leadership, financial performance, governance, and change activity, making it an excellent platform for future progression into roles across strategy, operations, finance, or programme management.

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on any protected characteristic under applicable law.

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