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The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) is a Mayoral Development Corporation (MDC), established by the Mayor of London to bring forward the regeneration of the Old Oak Opportunity area, spanning land in three London boroughs – Ealing, Brent and Hammersmith & Fulham.

The Old Oak and Park Royal Opportunity Area is one of the most exciting and important regeneration opportunities in the UK – aiming to create an accessible, welcoming and well-connected urban district, centred around the new High Speed 2 station at Old Oak Common, with tens of thousands of new high-quality and affordable homes; good quality, well-paid jobs and shops; facilities, sustainable travel connections and public green space.

Corporate Operations Directorate

The Corporate Operations Directorate provides essential support services to enable the effective functioning of OPDC. This includes finance, HR, Governance, IT, legal and facilities management.

The finance team provide fundamental business partnering and transactional support to the OPDC business.

As the organisation has evolved, so too has the finance function to reflect this.

About the role

The OPDC Finance team is made up of Finance Business Partners and a Financial Control team. The Senior Finance Officer role will form part of the Finance business partnering team and will work alongside the Finance Business partners and will report to the Head of Finance Business Partnering.

The purpose of this role is to undertake a wide range of financial support tasks across the Corporation’s internal finance function, ensuring financial integrity and strategic alignment with OPDC’s objectives.

Every day will be different as you will be working on a variety of tasks, but a typical day can look like:

• Preparing, posting and reviewing journals in SAP and assisting with period end and quarter end processes.
• Overseeing the Asset and Estate Management (AEM) portfolio, including reviewing cash transfer notes for the Managing agent. Ensuring all sales invoices are raised and providing cash allocation details to Financial Control team.
• Joining monthly asset and estate management team meeting, including overseeing commercial strategy through to operational and tactical matters such as tenant related items.
• Running reports and distributing these to Finance team members (daily/weekly).
• Raising Purchase Orders, for the Financial accountant, ensuring the P2P process is followed appropriately.
• Supporting OPDC’s annual financial and planning cycles by producing and coordinating timetables and tracking progress against deadlines.
• Lunch with team at local bakery/Join OPDC lunch and learn sessions (ad hoc).
• Team check in (weekly) and 1-2-1 with manager (weekly).

Skills, knowledge and experience

To be considered for the role you must meet the following essential criteria:

Building and managing relationships

developing rapport and working effectively with a diverse range of people, sharing knowledge and skills to deliver shared goals.

Communicating, engaging and influencing

presenting information and arguments clearly and convincingly, articulately and with credibility.

Planning and organising

thinking ahead, managing time, priorities and risk, and developing structured and efficient approaches to deliver work on time and to a high standard.

Research and analysis

gathering intelligence (information, opinion and data) from varied sources, making sense of it, testing its validity and drawing conclusions that can lead to practical benefits.

Problem solving

analysing and interpreting situations from a variety of viewpoints and finding creative, workable and timely solutions.

OPDC follows the GLA Competency Framework Guidelines. Further detailing each competency and the different level indicators can be found here: GLA Competency Framework

If you would like to apply for the role you will need to submit the following:

• Up to date CV
• Personal statement with a maximum of 1500 words. Please ensure you address how you demonstrate the essential criteria outlined above in the advert.

Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement have a maximum file size of 1.5MB each and upload your Personal Statement to the ‘CV and Cover Letters’ section’ of the form, ensuring you address the technical requirements and competencies in your Personal Statement.

Word or PDF format preferred and do not include any photographs or images. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement are saved with the job reference number as part of the naming convention (E.g., “CV – applicant name - 012345)

As part of OPDC’s continuing commitment to be an inclusive and equal opportunity employer we will be removing personal identifiable information from CVs and Personal Statements that could cause discrimination.

If you have questions about the role

If you wish to talk to someone about the role, the hiring manager Lorraine O’Garro would be happy to speak to you. Please contact them at Lorraine.Ogarro@opdc.london.gov.uk.

If you have any questions about the recruitment process, contact the glaopdcrecruitment@tfl.gov.uk who support the OPDC with recruitment.

Assessment process

Once you have submitted an application, your details will be reviewed by a panel.

If shortlisted, you’ll be invited to an interview/assessment.

The interview/assessment date will be in the first week of August. (may be subject to change)

London's diversity is its biggest asset, and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic candidates and disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We would welcome applications from candidates who are seeking part time work as this role is open to job share.

Please note we are a Disability Confident Employer so for candidates who wish to be considered under the scheme and meet the essential criteria, they will automatically be invited to interview. Please note, should you require any adjustments through the process, we will accommodate as much as possible. Please contact the recruitment team for further information if required.

Benefits

OPDC staff are hybrid working up to 3 days a week in our offices and remotely depending on their role. As part of this, you will need to split your time between home working and coming into the office.

In addition to a good salary package, you will be paid every four weeks, providing frequent salary payments. We also offer an attractive range of benefits including 30 days’ annual leave, interest free season ticket loan, interest free bicycle loan and a career average pension scheme with the option to add to build up pension benefits with a separate provider alongside your LGPS pension via additional voluntary contributions.

Learning and development

Please note, all candidates will need to confirm that the information provided in this application form is true and correct. Should a candidate deliberately give false information, including the use of AI software, they understand that this would disqualify them from consideration.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record (DBS) check but some roles may require additional security screening.

More Support

If you have a disability which makes submitting an online application form difficult, please contact resourcingteam@london.gov.uk