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Financial Controller
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The Oxford Street Development Corporation (OSDC) has been established to deliver the transformation of one of the world’s most iconic destinations. As a newly created Mayoral Development Corporation, OSDC is building its organisation from the ground up and is seeking an outstanding Financial Controller to play a key role in that journey.This is not a traditional Financial Controller role. As one of the early members of a newly established organisation, you will help design and implement financial systems, controls, governance frameworks and reporting processes from the ground up, creating the foundations for a high-performing public sector organisation.
The RoleReporting to the Head of Finance, you will lead financial management and control across OSDC, ensuring strong governance, accurate reporting and effective stewardship of public funds.
Key responsibilities include: Leading financial accounting activities, including the preparation of statutory accounts and supporting disclosures. Managing the month-end and year-end close processes, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial records. Maintaining robust financial controls, accounting policies and governance arrangements. Leading external audit activity and ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards and regulatory requirements. Providing technical accounting advice to senior leaders and Board members on financial reporting matters. Supporting the accounting treatment and financial due diligence of major transactions, projects and funding arrangements.Project Manager, Infrastructure Coordination – FTC 18 Months
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About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in accelerating housing delivery across London by tackling one of the sector’s most significant challenges: utility and infrastructure coordination.
As Project Manager within the Mayor’s Infrastructure Coordination Service, you will lead technical and project management activity to support the New Homes Accelerator London programme, helping unlock strategic housing developments that face infrastructure constraints. Working at the intersection of development, utilities, and public policy, you will bring together key partners to identify innovative solutions that accelerate infrastructure connections and enable new homes to be built more quickly.
You will manage a portfolio of technically complex projects, providing expert insight on utility connections, infrastructure coordination, and development delivery. This will involve convening developers, overseeing consultants, developing technical guidance and best practice, analysing challenges across the sector, and ensuring lessons learned are shared widely to influence industry approaches and policy.
The role offers a unique opportunity to work on high-profile projects with significant visibility across City Hall, government and industry. You will engage with senior stakeholders across the GLA and the wider sector, helping shape how London’s infrastructure networks support the city’s growth ambitions.
The successful candidate will combine strong project management skills with the ability to understand and communicate complex utility connection issues as they impact development. Whether your background is in utilities, infrastructure, engineering, development delivery, construction or a related field, you will be motivated by solving challenging problems, building effective partnerships and delivering tangible outcomes for Londoners.
What your day will look like
- Leading support to development partners that help unlock strategic housing developments by addressing utility and infrastructure constraints across London.
- Working with developers, utility providers, London boroughs, government partners and transport organisations to identify and deliver practical solutions to complex infrastructure challenges where this is impacting the delivery of housing.
- Providing technical expertise on utility connections, infrastructure coordination and development delivery, helping partners navigate barriers and accelerate progress on key sites.
- Managing consultants and project teams to deliver high-quality technical work, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget and to a high standard.
- Producing reports, case studies and best-practice guidance that capture lessons learned and influence infrastructure delivery across the sector.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with senior stakeholders across City Hall, government, utility companies, regulators and the development industry.
- Analysing technical, commercial and delivery issues where infrastructure impacts development timelines, using data and evidence to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.
- Representing the GLA at meetings, workshops and industry events, championing collaborative approaches to infrastructure connections and housing delivery.
- Preparing briefings and updates for senior management, programme boards and the Mayor’s Office, ensuring risks, issues and opportunities are clearly communicated.
Head of Finance
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About the role
As Head of Finance, you will play a leading role in shaping financial decision-making across some of TfL’s most complex and strategically important areas. Acting as a senior Finance colleague, you will work closely with senior leaders to provide insight, constructive challenge and clear financial advice, helping them navigate competing priorities and deliver against stretching financial targets and our five-year plan.
You will have responsibility for significant budgets across areas such as London Underground Maintenance and Capital, with exposure to operating expenditure as well as capital spend on key network assets. Working across a broad and varied portfolio, you will ensure that financial considerations are at the heart of business decisions and that resources are used effectively to deliver the best outcomes for TfL and London.
A key part of the role will be supporting change and transformation, including our flagship Growing Future Investment (GFI) programme, which is focused on delivering sustainable savings and generating additional revenue. You will work across a range of projects, helping senior stakeholders identify opportunities, understand financial implications and turn ambitious plans into deliverable outcomes.
Leading and developing a team of finance professionals, you’ll create an environment that encourages high performance, collaboration and continuous improvement. As priorities evolve, you will need to be agile and comfortable moving between complex projects, building strong relationships and providing confident financial leadership in a changing environment.
Senior Performance, Intelligence and Analysis Manager
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Overview of the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Security, Policing & Enforcement (SPE) as the Senior Performance, Intelligence & Analysis Manager.
Reporting to the Head of Performance, Planning & Standards, this is a key leadership role responsible for shaping the intelligence, analytical and performance capability that underpins decision-making across SPE. The role provides the evidence, insight and assurance that informs strategic priorities, operational deployment, investment decisions and policy development across London’s transport network.
Leading a multidisciplinary team of analytical and performance specialists, the successful candidate will drive intelligence-led and evidence-based approaches to understanding threat, harm, risk and demand. Working at the heart of a complex operational environment, they will ensure leaders have the information and insight required to target resources effectively, improve performance and deliver the greatest benefit for customers and communities.
The role plays a critical part in supporting TfL’s enforcement activity and TfL-funded policing initiatives through advanced analytics, performance management, evaluation and research.
Working closely with senior leaders, policing partners and stakeholders across TfL, the postholder will help shape strategic priorities, influence investment decisions and drive continuous improvement across the directorate.
This is a unique opportunity to lead a specialist function operating at the intersection of intelligence, performance, public safety and operational delivery within one of the world’s largest and most complex transport networks.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead SPE’s intelligence, analysis, modelling and performance function, providing timely, accurate and actionable insight to support strategic, tactical and operational decision-making.
- Develop and embed intelligence-led and evidence-based approaches to identify, assess and prioritise risk, threat, harm and demand across the transport network.
- Provide senior analytical advice and assurance to SPE leaders, ensuring intelligence and performance information drives planning, governance and resource deployment decisions.
- Oversee the development and application of advanced analytical, modelling, evaluation and research techniques to assess operational effectiveness and demonstrate benefits realisation.
- Build strong partnerships with policing, enforcement, operational and analytical teams across TfL and external organisations to support collaborative problem solving and performance improvement.
- Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing team of analytical professionals, ensuring capability, capacity and priorities align with organisational objectives.
AI Technology Adoption Specialist
This three-year programme is funded by the GLA aligning with their new ‘AI mission’ which has established an AI taskforce to look at the future of jobs and has goals such as providing ‘free AI skills training for Londoners’. This also delivers a key recommendation of L&P’s Business Support Strategy of supporting under-represented founders with AI adoption.This is a high profile and ambitious programme which will aim to support a high number of businesses, from different sizes and sectors. The delivery model is currently being designed but it is likely to include: an awareness campaign, a range of online and face-to-face activities adapted to support different business audiences, from online training and content resources to a more in-depth acceleratorSenior Growth Manager – Enterprise & Deep Tech 18 Month Secondment
Help some of the UK’s most ambitious Enterprise & Deep Tech businesses take their next step on the global stage. Leading sector recruitment and account management across Grow London Global and our new UK wide scaleup programme, you will connect innovative companies with the customers, investment and partnerships they need to grow.You will work directly with founders, CEOs and senior leadership teams across enterprise software, AI, quantum, robotics, semiconductors and other emerging technologies. Getting to know their businesses and ambitions you will help them tackle challenges ranging from winning enterprise customers and navigating complex sales cycles to commercialising mew technologies and entering international markets.You will lead and develop a team of Growth Managers across London and the UK bringing together sector expertise, regional knowledge and strong business networks. Together, you will recruit and support companies across the country including London businesses participating in Grow London Global and provide practical support tailored to each company’s growth journey.Senior Operations Manager – FTC 18 Months
Help turn ambitious programme plans into effective delivery across London and the UK. As Senior Manager Operations you will lead the operational framework for Grow London Global and our new UK wide scaleup programme, bringing together governance, reporting, systems and regional partner coordination.Working closely with the Director Trade & Growth and programme Heads you will keep delivery on track, provide a clear view of performance and ensure colleagues have the processes and information they need to succeed. You will build productive relationships with regional delivery partners, helping them to meet their commitments and resolve operational challenges.You will lead and develop a highly motivated executive team, taking responsibility for their line management, performance and workload. Working with Growth Managers you will coordinate executive support for company recruitment ensuring businesses experience a smooth journey from initial enquiry through to completion.You will also help bring the programmes impact to life, identifying early company wins and translating them into compelling, evidence-based case studies with account management, impact and marketing colleagues.This is an opportunity to shape how two ambitious programmes operate, build a connect team and introduce practical improvements that give colleagues more time to help businesses grow.Growth Manager – Life Sciences – FTC 18 Months
Help ambitious Life Sciences businesses bring their innovations to new markets and grow internationally. As Growth Manager Life Sciences, you will recruit and support companies across Grow London Global and our new UK-wide scale-up programme, working with businesses in London and across the UK.Your portfolio will span areas such as biotech, techbio, biopharma, MedTech and diagnostics. Working directly with founders, CEOs and senior leadership teams, you will understand their ambitions and the challenges they face, from securing investment and commercial partnerships to navigating market access and reaching customers.You will turn these insights into practical growth plans, connecting companies with relevant expertise, investors, industry partners and international opportunities. You will build trusted relationships and help businesses make progress through both 12-month programmes.Working with the Senior Growth Manager Life Sciences, regional partners and international market teams, you will shape relevant sector activity and deliver trade missions that create commercial opportunities. This is an opportunity to work with pioneering businesses and help translate scientific innovation into business growth, investment and jobs.Senior Growth Manager – Enterprise & Deep Tech 18 Month FTC
Help some of the UK’s most ambitious Enterprise & Deep Tech businesses take their next step on the global stage. Leading sector recruitment and account management across Grow London Global and our new UK wide scaleup programme, you will connect innovative companies with the customers, investment and partnerships they need to grow.You will work directly with founders, CEOs and senior leadership teams across enterprise software, AI, quantum, robotics, semiconductors and other emerging technologies. Getting to know their businesses and ambitions you will help them tackle challenges ranging from winning enterprise customers and navigating complex sales cycles to commercialising mew technologies and entering international markets.You will lead and develop a team of Growth Managers across London and the UK bringing together sector expertise, regional knowledge and strong business networks. Together, you will recruit and support companies across the country including London businesses participating in Grow London Global and provide practical support tailored to each company’s growth journey.Senior Project and Policy Officer (Rough Sleeping, Specialist & Supported Housing and Domestic Abuse) – FTC
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Contract type: 5 x permanent and 1x FTC until June 2027
Housing and Land
The Housing and Land directorate is responsible for the Mayor’s plans to deliver new and improved homes and strong communities. Working closely with boroughs and partners, we manage the Mayor’s housing investment programmes and land and property assets to support the building of affordable homes, job creation and regeneration.
About the team
The Specialist Housing and Services (SHS) unit delivers the following areas of work:
- Rough Sleeping: delivering the Mayor’s work to tackle rough sleeping in London. The team commissions a wide range of frontline services, manages a variety of different projects aimed at reducing rough sleeping and oversees the revenue element of programmes which deliver more accommodation for this group of Londoners. Find out more.
- Specialist and Supported Housing: managing capital investment programmes to deliver specialist and supported housing for groups of Londoners who may be marginalised by the housing market. People experiencing homelessness, survivors of domestic abuse, adults with learning disabilities and older people are just some of the groups the team supports. Find out more.
- Housing Mobility: delivering two services which support particular groups of Londoners to move home either within or outside of London, according to their needs. The homes freed up as result of these moves are used to meet other Londoners’ housing needs, including by preventing and alleviating homelessness. Find out more and more.
- Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation: working in partnership with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) to deliver the Mayor’s duties under Part 4 of the 2021 Domestic Abuse Act to support victims/survivors of domestic abuse and their children in relevant safe accommodation. This includes commissioning and grant funding a range of services and providing capital funding to deliver safe accommodation. Find out more.
About the role
We are recruiting for six Senior Project and Policy Officer posts – five permanent and one fixed-term until June 2027 – in three of the teams within the Specialist Housing and Services unit. Three roles in the Rough Sleeping team, two roles working on Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation and one role in Specialist and Supported Housing team.
The roles will support the development and delivery of housing and support in line with the strategic outcomes set out in the Mayor’s Rough Sleeping Plan of Action, Domestic Abuse Safe Accommodation Strategy, the London Housing Strategy and associated plans. The roles will work on delivery of a range of projects, services and policies that support efforts to tackle rough sleeping, increase the supply of good quality supported accommodation and ensure that victims/survivors of domestic abuse have a safe place to call home.
What your day will look like
The day-to-day activities will vary by the role but across the posts, could include activities such as:
- Working on the design and procurement of new rough sleeping services or undertaking the development and assessment of new schemes in capital and revenue funding programmes.
- Drafting papers, contracts and funding agreements to a high a standard.
- Monitoring the delivery of existing projects and services, supporting partners to deliver agreed outcomes, closely monitoring delivery challenges and identifying lessons learned.
- Leading small projects which pilot new approaches to practice relating to rough sleeping, domestic abuse or supported housing.
- Using research and analysis to inform improved service delivery, policy, strategy and programme development.
- Writing reports to present to senior leaders on programme delivery progress, risks, issues and trends.
- Engaging, and coordinating engagement, with stakeholders including central and local government, and the charity sector on issues affecting people experiencing homelessness, victims/survivors of domestic abuse, and other groups requiring supported accommodation.
- Working in partnership with government bodies to advocate for and develop new funding programmes aligned to emerging needs of Londoners. Supporting the design of new programmes which do emerge.
- Collaborating with colleagues in other GLA teams on cross-cutting issues.
- Delivering programme objectives in line with set governance frameworks and procedures.