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Financial Controller
Job Description:
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.Senior Project and Policy Officer (Rough Sleeping, Specialist & Supported Housing and Domestic Abuse) – FTC
Job description
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.
Senior Project and Policy Officer (Rough Sleeping, Specialist & Supported Housing and Domestic Abuse)
Job description
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.
Principal Delivery Officer
Job description
Good Growth
Good Growth is responsible for delivering and implementing the Mayor’s environment, transport and economic strategies and for the effective implementation of the London Plan. The Directorate is also responsible for regeneration (where the programme is not housing led), enterprise, growth, capital projects and design work.
About the team
The Mayor’s Infrastructure Coordination Service (ICS) is an innovative, award-winning, multi-disciplinary team that drives better collaboration in the planning and delivery of London’s utility infrastructure. This advertised role will sit within the sub-team responsible for the development and implementation of the SSM: the SuDS through Streetworks Market (SSM).
This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in this flagship innovation initiative: establishing the UK’s first environmental services market for sustainable drainage systems (SuDS).
The SSM holds the potential to dramatically increase SuDS by leveraging planned streetworks. A cross-organisational partnership – delivered in collaboration with Thames Water – will put forward a market-led approach based on Nobel prize winning economics that will significantly reduce surface flooding risks and positively move the dial on green infrastructure across the city.
Our novel approach sits at the heart of London’s climate resilience agenda, supporting Flood Ready London as one of the London Surface Water Strategy’s key delivery mechanisms. Through the SSM, we are aiming to oversee two initial market rounds, deliver at least 100 projects and ultimately convert 7,000 hectares of impermeable land to SuDS to meet our target number of properties at risk from a 1 in 30 year storm.
About the role
As Principal Delivery Officer within the Mayor’s Infrastructure Coordination Service, you will lead the technical side of the SSM team. Working at the intersection of environmental markets, surface water management and infrastructure delivery, you will oversee the development of the SSM framework and successful implementation of the SSM market rounds.
You will manage a number of technical and interdependent workstreams – SuDS design, market design, trading platform, data, monitoring & evaluation, delivery, among others – to ensure the SSM work programme is delivered successfully and within budget.
This will involve convening ‘buyers’ – lead local flood authorities, Boroughs and Transport for London – together with ‘suppliers’ – utilities and contractors – to develop market and commercial arrangements, technical guidance and best practice, ensuring lessons are learned from each market round and refine the wider SSM processes. The SSM leverages London’s high volume of annual streetworks and encourages contractors to reinstate SuDS rather than traditional asphalt and concrete into their planned streetworks, thereby delivering SuDS at scale, lowering costs of delivery and reducing road disruption.
The role offers a unique opportunity to work on a high-profile programme with significant visibility across City Hall, government and industry. You will engage with senior stakeholders across the GLA and the wider sector – including Flood Ready London, Ofwat, lead local flood authorities and the Environment Agency – to help shape how London’s infrastructure networks support the city’s growth ambitions.
The successful candidate will combine strong technical acumen, a can-do attitude and programme management skills with the ability to understand and communicate complex SuDS / utility issues. Whether your background is in sustainability, environmental markets, utilities, infrastructure 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
- Supporting a multi-disciplinary team environment, ensuring team members feel supported and have the right resources and tools to carry out their work.
- Providing strategic direction across the SSM’s technical workstreams, addressing risks and technical barriers whilst achieving delivery targets.
- Providing support to Buyers and Suppliers and developing strong relationships with key stakeholders, including: lead local flood authorities, utilities, contractors and regulators.
- Working with SSM market participants to identify and deliver practical solutions to complex situations relating to environmental markets, SuDS and streetworks.
- Managing a large programme budget, including external consultants and overseeing procurement processes to deliver high-quality technical work, ensuring KPIs 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.
- Analysing technical, commercial and delivery data to develop business cases for future governance and delivery models, identifying 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.
Sustainable Drainage Systems through Streetworks Market (SSM) Lead
Job description
About the team
The Mayor’s Infrastructure Coordination Service (ICS) is an innovative, award-winning, multi-disciplinary team that drives better collaboration in the planning and delivery of London’s utility infrastructure. This advertised role will sit within the sub-team responsible for the development and implementation of the SSM: the SuDS through Streetworks Market (SSM).
This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in this flagship innovation initiative: establishing the UK’s first environmental services market for sustainable drainage systems (SuDS).
The SSM holds the potential to dramatically increase SuDS by leveraging planned streetworks. A cross-organisational partnership – delivered in collaboration with Thames Water – will put forward a market-led approach based on Nobel prize winning economics that will significantly reduce surface flooding risks and positively move the dial on green infrastructure across the city.
Our novel approach sits at the heart of London’s climate resilience agenda, supporting Flood Ready London as one of the London Surface Water Strategy’s key delivery mechanisms. Through the SSM, we are aiming to oversee two initial market rounds, deliver at least 100 projects and ultimately convert 7,000 hectares of impermeable land to SuDS to meet our target number of properties at risk from a 1 in 30 year storm.
About the role
As SSM Lead within the Mayor’s Infrastructure Coordination Service, you will lead a new 7-person team to implement the SuDS through Streetworks Market. Working at the intersection of environmental markets, surface water management and infrastructure delivery, you will oversee the successful implementation of the SSM by bringing together key partners to engage in this new delivery mechanism.
You will oversee a number of interdependent workstreams – across stakeholder engagement and comms, SuDS design and streetworks, environmental market economics, governance, monitoring & evaluation, data, among others – to ensure the SSM work programme is delivered successfully and within budget.
This will involve convening ‘buyers’ – lead local flood authorities, Boroughs and Transport for London – together with ‘suppliers’ – utilities and contractors – to develop market and commercial arrangements, technical guidance and best practice, ensuring lessons are learned from each market round and refine the wider SSM processes. The SSM leverages London’s high volume of annual streetworks and encourages contractors to reinstate SuDS rather than traditional asphalt and concrete into their planned streetworks, thereby delivering SuDS at scale, lowering costs of delivery and reducing road disruption.
The role offers a unique opportunity to work on a high-profile programme with significant visibility across City Hall, government and industry. You will engage with senior stakeholders across the GLA and the wider sector – including Flood Ready London, Ofwat, lead local flood authorities and the Environment Agency – to help shape how London’s infrastructure networks support the city’s growth ambitions.
The successful candidate will combine strong strategy, leadership and programme management skills with the ability to understand and communicate complex SuDS / utility issues. Whether your background is in sustainability, environmental markets, utilities, infrastructure 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 a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring team members feel supported and have the right resources and tools to carry out their work.
- Providing strategic direction across the SSM’s multiple workstreams, addressing risks and technical barriers whilst achieving delivery targets.
- Securing a strong cross-organisational set-up with Thames Water, ensuring clear lines of accountability.
- Developing strong relationships with key stakeholders, including: lead local flood authorities, utilities, contractors and regulators.
- Working with SSM market participants to identify and deliver practical solutions to complex situations relating to environmental markets, SuDS and streetworks.
- Overseeing the SSM’s budget, including staffing and work programme (external consultants).
- Producing reports, case studies and best-practice guidance that capture lessons learned and influence infrastructure delivery across the sector.
- Analysing technical, commercial and delivery data to develop business cases for future governance and delivery models, identifying 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.
Programme and Policy Officer – FTC 4 Months
Job Description:
We are seeking a passionate and experienced Programmes Officer to lead on specific programmes related to sport and physical activity for the prevention of Violence affecting children and young people in London. Working closely with London’s Violence Reduction Unit, other policy teams within the Young London and Communities Unit, across the GLA, and in partnership with relevant stakeholders, the post holder will ensure that these outcomes contribute to the Mayor’s priority to provide 250,000 positive opportunities for young Londoners.
- Leading the delivery of sport related programmes for the prevention of Violence Affecting children and young people in London programmes which align to Mayoral priorities.
- Managing programme budgets, forecasting expenditure and ensuring compliance with financial governance requirements.
- Commissioning and managing delivery partners, grants and contracts to achieve programme outcomes
- Monitoring performance, risk, safeguarding, quality assurance and programme impact.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with local authorities, youth organisations, schools, charity partners and other stakeholders.
- Preparing briefings, reports and responses for senior leaders, Deputy Mayors and other key stakeholders.
- Supporting evaluation activities and using evidence and insight to improve programme delivery.
- Representing the organisation at meetings, events and partnership forums across the youth sector.
Finance Officer
Job Description:
The Oxford Street Development Corporation (OSDC) has been established to lead the transformation of one of the world’s most iconic destinations. As a newly established organisation, we are creating the team, systems and processes that will deliver this ambitious vision.
We’re looking for a talented and motivated Finance Officer to join us at an exciting stage of our journey. This is a rare opportunity to help build the finance function of a new public sector organisation, gaining broad experience and making a meaningful impact from day one.
Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will support the delivery of a professional, efficient and well-controlled finance service across OSDC.Key responsibilities include: Supporting the delivery of core financial accounting processes, including reconciliations, journals and financial reporting. Processing financial transactions, invoices, payments and other finance administration activities. Maintaining accurate financial records and supporting month-end and year-end close processes. Supporting the preparation of statutory accounts and external audit requirements. Assisting with balance sheet reconciliations, control accounts and financial controls. Helping develop and improve finance systems, processes and governance arrangements.
Lead Business Analyst
Job Description:
About the role
This is a leadership role within the User Centred Design team, in the GLA’s Digital Experience Unit. The User Centred Design team brings together specialisms including digital engagement, service design, user research, business analysis, content and interaction design and performance analysis. These specialisms work in harmony with a shared mission to make all products and services as inclusive, accessible and user-centric as possible.
The Lead BA will lead the DEU’s Business Analysis team, representing the BA function and working with the Head of UCD and other colleagues to set the direction for business analysis within the GLA.
They will manage the Business Analysis team, ensuring quality and consistency across their work, overseeing business analysis activities on projects, guiding the team in applying UCD principles and practices throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring solutions meet both business and user needs.
They will be able to work in highly complex problem spaces, which may span multiple products or services. To set the foundations for intuitive, successful and user centred products and processes by working closely with stakeholders across City Hall.
What your day will look like
- You will be leading the DEU’s Business Analysis team, representing the BA function and working with the Head of UCD and other colleagues to set the direction for business analysis within the GLA.
- You will be supporting the setup and implementation of the UCD team operating models, working collaboratively with your colleagues to improve UCD and DEU ways of working.
- You will be working with other colleagues in the UCD team and wider DEU, in a collaborative way, helping to plan project activity.
- You will allocate work in the Business Analysis team; mentoring and guiding your team to do the work.
- You will be working with your team to ensure quality and consistency across their work, overseeing business analysis activities on a portfolio of projects, guiding the team in applying UCD principles and practices throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring solutions meet both business and user needs.
- You will work in highly complex problem spaces, which may span multiple products or services, scoping new features and processes, gathering and documenting business process and functional requirements from stakeholders and aligning this with user needs.
Senior Manager Youth Transitions
Job Description:
To lead and be responsible for children and young Londoners policy, with a focus on key moments of transition for children and young people. Work to bring together projects and programmes relating to overarching policy aims and objectives and outcomes. To respond in an agile and collaborative way to new policy developments, ensuring that the Mayor and Mayoral delivery programmes can understand, adapt to and demonstrate the potential and future relationship of London and London’s systems to the relevant policy area. To lead on research and development of new policy areas as appropriate including those relating to the Youth guarantee, Sports policy and strategies and other polices contained within the National Youth strategy and/or other relevant policies or strategies.
- Supporting and developing a team of two staff
- Working with the other areas of the Directorate, including the Skills and Employment policy and delivery teams, Programme Management Office and Communications, using a matrix-working arrangement
- Working with teams across City Hall including MOPAC and Violence Reduction Unit, Mayoral Advisors and Directors, Deputy Mayors
- Working with external partners including Delivery Partners, DCMS, London Councils, London boroughs, sports organisations, London Sport, employment and skills contacts health structures and public health, other relevant public sector, private sector and a wide range of VCSE organisations
Senior Financial Accountant
Job description
About the role
Join OPDC’s Finance team and play a significant role in delivering high-quality financial reporting and financial stewardship across the organisation. The postholder will be heavily involved in the preparation of the annual Statement of Accounts, supporting all aspects of the year-end process, providing technical accounting expertise, and ensuring compliance with statutory accounting requirements.
The role will also lead on the consolidation of the OPDC Group accounts, including any subsidiary and SPV entities, ensuring that group reporting is robust, accurate and compliant with relevant accounting standards.
You will also support the ongoing development and scrutiny of OPDC’s long-term delivery model, reviewing financial projections, cash flow forecasts and key assumptions to help assess the financial sustainability of the organisation’s regeneration programme over the long term.
As part of a growing organisation, the role offers the opportunity to contribute to the development of finance processes and reporting, support continuous improvement initiatives, and play an important part in developing junior members of the team through coaching, mentoring and technical guidance. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant looking to combine strong financial reporting expertise with involvement in the long-term financial planning and delivery of one of Europe’s largest and most significant regeneration programmes.
What your day will look like
- Preparing and reviewing key sections of the annual Statement of Accounts and supporting working papers.
- Leading the consolidation of the OPDC Group accounts, including any subsidiary and SPV entities, ensuring compliance with relevant accounting standards.
- Working closely with internal and external auditors, responding to queries and providing robust supporting evidence throughout the audit process.
- Providing technical accounting advice to finance colleagues on the application of the CIPFA Code, accounting standards and financial reporting requirements.
- Reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring financial reporting schedules are accurate and up to date.
- Supporting the development and scrutiny of OPDC’s long-term delivery model, reviewing financial projections, cash flow forecasts and key assumptions that underpin future delivery plans.
- Liaising with valuers, tax advisers and other professional specialists to support statutory reporting and financial disclosures.
- Identifying opportunities to improve financial reporting processes, controls and ways of working across the finance function.
- Supporting and developing junior members of the team through coaching, guidance and knowledge sharing.