Provision of Finance and Business Manager Services to Defra Network eTendering Portal

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Defra Network eTendering Portal awarded a contract to Venn Group for finance and business manager services.

The role involved managing project finances, providing input to business cases, supporting delivery managers, leading costing initiatives, validating supplier costings using cross-government benchmarking, negotiating and managing cross-government Memorandums of Understanding, agreeing Defra costs for shared sites and services, monitoring and forecasting spend against budget, writing business cases and reports to committees and HMT, managing team resourcing, managing relationships with contractor agencies and the resourcing team, supporting interview and induction processes, leading staff and corporate engagement initiatives, representing the team on corporate and programme activities, managing internal and external project stakeholder relationships, leading delivery assurance and lessons learnt, coordinating reviews, audits and inspections, communicating project vision and status, and ensuring ongoing service management post go-live.

The contract value was £76,740.