Rail Delivery Group

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Budgeting – enable the annual budget for your key budget holders. This will include communicating key timelines and expectations, supporting with analysis and challenging assumptions ahead of wider reviews.
• Forecasting – provide in depth quarterly forecast updates to the budget, plus lighter touch monthly forecasts, working with your budget holders to understand key movements and changes to assumptions.
• Reporting – produce accurate and timely financial business reports each period to enable business areas to monitor cost performance and to have the information they require to alter their operations, if necessary, to ensure optimisation of their budget. Prepare internal finance papers for the RDG Executive Management, plus additional reporting as required.
• Month end processing – you will be required to complete month end journals and analysis to ensure the position at close of period end is reflective of the activities that have been completed that month. You will need to make judgement calls on accruals and prepayments.
• Investment appraisals for key projects – working with the business, provide financial support by way of investment appraisal and financial project evaluation, utilising targeted cash flow models, and also providing a strategic review of business cases.
• Ad-hoc queries – support your key business areas with ad hoc queries and requests for support and data. You will encourage self-service where possible, while ensuring the finance voice of the organisation is valued in decision making.
• Training – ensure business areas are familiar with and complying with financial best practice for example the use of purchase orders, timely forecasts, use of the budgeting tools. Provide training (system and policy) to budget holders and their designated staff with budget responsibility.
• Mentoring – provide knowledge and assistance to other areas in Finance and to the junior members of the Finance department to enable the Finance department to provide a first-class service to the business.
• Line Management – if line management is included in the role, ensure all line management duties are completed. This includes regular catch ups including feedback and ongoing development and coaching of your direct report.
• Relationships – establish and develop relationships with your business area, wider business and possibly external stakeholders in order to know and understand key elements of the business. This will facilitate an optimal level of service provided to the business.
• Continual development – ensure continual professional development, both technical and personal, is performed to allow continued membership of the ACCA/ICA/CIMA. This will enable the standards in the Finance department to remain high.

Senior Finance Business Partner – 12-month FTC Maternity Cover

Architect

• Provide key architectural input into business documents and support senior business stakeholders
• Develop comprehensive Architecture Definition Documents, ensuring all critical architectural domains are thoroughly addressed
• Support the capture of knowledge around the design and architecture of current and future systems within the product area
• Lead the collection, documentation, and sharing of architectural knowledge related to both current and future systems within the FTR scope
• Provide key input across design authorities and assurance groups
• Mentor and guide other architects working on the program
• Document the current ("as-is") solution architecture and associated data structures to ensure all business and technical requirements are fully captured and understood.
• Ensure all proposed architectural solutions are aligned with established architecture policies, principles, and governance standards.
• Take ownership of selecting and designing robust technical solutions, guaranteeing they address both functional and non-functional requirements effectively.
• Produce comprehensive documentation detailing the future technology landscape, including system interfaces and data flows, to support design clarity and stakeholder alignment.
• Act as the solution owner, maintaining responsibility for the coherence and integrity of the application, solution, and technical architecture across the entire end-to-end solution.
• Lead the preparation of technical documentation and actively participate in the evaluation and selection of delivery partners and technology suppliers, ensuring suitability for project objectives.
• Identify, assess, and manage technical risks throughout the project lifecycle, providing expert guidance to mitigate potential issues and ensure successful delivery.

Principal Architect – FTR

Manager

• Manage and coordinate end-to-end delivery of selected workstreams within the Passenger Assist programme of work.
• Provide end-to-end delivery and project management capability from initial scoping through to transition to live service deployment.
• Plan the scope of approved releases into sprints, working closely with the development team and the supplier.
• Track progress within sprints, identify and report any delays or changes, and adjust plans as necessary to meet deadlines.
• Act as Scrum Master for main Agile ceremonies.
• Manage the delivery activities in line with the Service Development Lifecycle (SDLC) delivery team to drive progress, minimise rework, and resolve issues efficiently.
• Facilitate clear communication and collaboration within the team.
• Track the status of the programme delivery plan, deliverables, risks, issues, and blockers as aligned to the roadmap.
• Maintain up-to-date records and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
• Lead unblocking activities, implementing effective solutions where possible or manage escalations to the Programme Manager when necessary.
• Review and manage delivery workload and capacity to ensure optimal resource utilisation and timely delivery of milestones.
• Communicate any resourcing needs to the Senior Project Manager.
• Define and design the end-to-end delivery (including development) process in line with the SDLC.
• Ensure ongoing maintenance and continuous improvement throughout the SDLC (i.e., SIPOC if applicable).
• Support Programme/Senior Project Manager to ensure all commercial agreements and contracts support delivery objectives.
• Lead transition activities from the project phase to live service and Business-as-Usual (BAU) operations.
• Work with Service delivery to ensure a seamless handover and minimal disruption to the service during transitions.
• Ensure the quality and accuracy of the change tracking artifacts, including regular updates to reflect enhancements brought forward by new functionality.
• Work with internal and external suppliers and other stakeholders to accurately estimate effort and costs for the development of any new functionality within the roadmap.
• Ensure estimates are provided with the appropriate level of accuracy, confidence, and contingency working alongside the Commercial Lead.
• Contribute to reprioritisation of the programme roadmap as part of the leadership team and driving those changes forward throughout all stages of the SDLC.
• Maintain regular engagement with User Groups when required in coordination with the Business Relationship Lead.
• Understand and represent user needs and product features and limitations to ensure the roadmap delivers on both customer and TOC expectations.
• Ensure the delivery aligns with user expectations and requirements.
• Manage the delivery approach of key suppliers, ensuring their performance meets programme expectations.
• Conduct regular delivery reviews and manage supplier relationships effectively.
• Evaluate and mitigate risks associated with releases.

Senior Delivery Manager – Passenger Assist

Supply Chain

• Provision of supply chain liaison services for the projects and programmes, acting as a focal commercial point between RDG and relevant suppliers.
• Leading the engagement with supply chain partners on contracts, specified by the programme / project managers and maintaining key relationships with supply chain partners to deliver to quality, cost and project objectives.
• Understand the supply chain landscape so that supplier capability and capacity are matched to RDG requirements and then planned and managed to ensure that projects and programmes are delivered as efficiently as possible.
• Agreeing scope of work and delivery plans with suppliers, together with project managers and product owners, as appropriate.
• Leading negotiations for contracts and managing agreements to ensure advantageous terms.
• Liaising with internal RDG teams including Procurement and Legal to review and progress contracts before submitting for approval, supporting and gaining external/internal approvals for contract signature.
• Maintaining and forecasting supplier cost data, supporting the programme manager with budget management.
• Identifying, recording and managing specific supply chain risks or leading on the resolution of issues.
• Developing supply chain strategy and engagement plans, as required.
• Contract management throughout the programme lifetime.

Supply Chain Engagement Lead

Product Manager

• Act as the go-to subject matter expert for the product, providing guidance and advice to internal teams and partner organisations on the product.
• Establish and maintain alignment of the product with accessibility, inclusion, and passenger experience goals and priorities.
• Lead on the definition of requirements for the product and its constituent parts, bringing together all relevant stakeholders and SME’s.
• Ensure the product design meets the requirements.
• Identify opportunities to scale, enhance, or evolve the product based on operational feedback and data insights.
• Engage with internal and external product stakeholders to understand and refine the product vision driving and contributing to the product roadmap.
• Create and drive the Product roadmap, managing change and the product backlog in line with the business product strategy, including QA and Service delivery alignment.
• Contribute knowledge and expertise to the creation of requests for quotation and proposal and supplier selection process.
• Drive decision making related to the product and its constituent parts and help shape those decisions.
• Work with customer in mind, initiate and facilitate customer engagement, respond to customer feedback and insights to improve customer experience with the product.
• Ensure GDPR and Privacy Management Framework compliance.

Product Lead – Passenger Information Systems

Project Manager

• Deliver the roll out of a Passenger Information System to UK stations.
• Planning what work needs to be done, when and who’s going to do it.
• Looking at the risks involved in a particular project and managing these risks.
• Motivating people involved in the project.
• Co-ordinating work done by different people, with responsibility for the work to be done to the agreed standard.
• Working with multiple third party suppliers.
• Responsible for the project running on time and to budget.
• Dealing with changes to the project as and when necessary.
• Driving the project to deliver the expected outcomes and benefits.
• Working to the RDG Project Delivery Framework and ensuring that others do too.

Senior Finance Business Partner – 12-month FTC Maternity Cover

Principal Architect – FTR

Senior Delivery Manager – Passenger Assist

Supply Chain Engagement Lead

Product Lead – Passenger Information Systems

Senior Project Manager – Passenger Information Systems