Quality Project Officer; Power Bi​/Finance acumen

Position: Quality Project Officer (with Power Bi / Finance acumen) (Contract)
Role:
Quality Project Officer

Position:
Contract

Location:

Bridgewater, Somerset/Hybrid

Days on Site: 3 days on site at Hinkley Point C

Duration:
Initially until Dec 2026

Pay: £275 (paye) to £373 (umbrella)

The Role

The role of the Quality Project Officer is to provide a Project Controls support to the Quality Department with primary focus on management of the departmental finances, KPI reporting and support to the Quality Lead Team.

The Quality Project Officer is a full-time role which reports to the Quality Project Office Manager. The objective of the role is to develop and maintain a consistent set of reports to give management information and appropriate governance to provide financial management to support the Quality Lead Team on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.

Principal Accountabilities

Pull together inputs for Monthly Project Reports & Project Review Report
Maintain action registers for Quality Forum/Boards
Azure Data Lake and Power BI integration for reporting Quality KPI metrics
Support to Budget Holders to manage their finances.
ANAPLAN support, SAP Download Analysis
Support Monthly Accountability commentary for Finance.
Financial estimating and planning
Programme and Area Quality performance
Financial reporting and forecasting
Reporting of improvement projects and co-ordination of associated actions
Provision of Department Risk and lesson learned position.
Updating of metrics to feed Quality Department reports in Power

BI report suites.
Provide and manage the cost framework, systems and resources to deliver an effective cost control and reporting service to Project Managers and Sponsors.
Compilation of cost plans for annual and lifecycle funding cycles, ensuring that the management budget challenges/target is met.
Advising on the cost impact of HPC programme schedule change and variations, liaising with the management team, planner and commercial function as required.
Comprehensive reporting of project financial performance through the provision of financial reports based on data analysis, variance analysis against medium-term plans MTPs and cost control data.
Presentation monthly to the Director, Finance Manager, PMO Manager, Head of PMO and HR Manager on Quality's financial out-turn and accruals.
Ensure all SAP accruals / GRN's are completed accurately in SAP by the commercial team in alignment with Anaplan forecasts.
Maintain financial records to ensure finance audits are successful for substantiation requests by central finance team and auditors.
Maintain an estimate of the outturn value of the project and prepare the EAC for review and approval in accordance with deadlines in LE1, LE2 and LE3 every quarter.
Identification of cost trends outside of the forecast and providing support in the identification of the root cause of such trends and develop solutions to reduce the impact of delivery.
Active project cost control, opening and closing cost codes in response to change and variations.
Provide support to technical leads and branch managers on project change requests, by requesting regular monthly meetings to review project change forms for funding releases from HPC programmes.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience

Essential

Position requires experience in working around complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
Financial acumen with expertise in various financial management systems including SAP app, SAP Bex web and Anaplan.
Development of Management Reports.
Understanding of Project Management principles and management of change processes.
Good stakeholder management experience at senior management level.
Advanced Microsoft Excel and Power BI Advanced user
Monthly review and maintenance of frameworks for data analysis tools (e.g. Power BI), data modelling and Azure data lake storage and ensure integrity is maintained.

Desirable

Power

BI Experience
Knowledge of the nuclear sector and/or Construction Projects.
Experience in developing reports summarising complex subjects in a clear and concise manner.

Qualifications

Essential

HND in Technical subject or Project Management - APM PMQ or ACostE

Experience of a technical project, project cost management and Power BI environment Desirable

Experience of the…