Business Manager to the COO in Swindon

The opportunity: As the Business Manager to the COO, you will report directly to our Chief Operating Officer. You will support the COO and COO Senior Leadership Team to deliver operational service excellence through management reporting and risk & control monitoring activities and overall facilitate the smooth functioning of the COO Office. This is a hybrid role based in our Swindon office, with the requirement to be in the office 3 days a week.

The benefits:

• Salary - up to £51,000
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 10%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection - 1x salary
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• Up to 3 paid days off for volunteering
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Oversight of operational risk and controls to ensure COO teams deliver safe outcomes within the appropriate risk appetite and risk framework.
• Design and deliver meaningful MI and reporting to support COO and team to deliver against performance metrics.
• Ensure effective plans, processes and controls are in place for the day-to-day operations.
• Drive cultural change through operational engagement and continuous improvement activities based on customer and colleague feedback.
• Assisting with SLT meetings – managing the scheduling of such meetings, as well as the actions as the result of.
• Managing COO risk forum, including relevant activities.
• Management of substantive meetings and forums, as well as being responsible for following up on actions from boards and steering committees.
• Working with relevant stakeholders within COO and the broader business.
• Manage, monitor and update COO KPIs and scorecards.

What will you need to succeed?

• Experience supporting C-level executives.
• Experience managing and influencing business quality.
• Experience writing board and executive papers.
• Ability to carry out financial modelling and understand and interpret financial information.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, videoconferencing platforms, and document management tools.
• Previous exposure to board governance and regulatory environments is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to manage confidential materials and information with professionalism.

Why us? At The Openwork Partnership, we are a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We are investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential. We’re also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague’s individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it’s personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.