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As the Real Estates Development Manager you will work with the Director of Real Estate Europe, negotiating real estate deals for all UK and Ireland for company-owned Retail stores, including Concept stores (mall and high street) and Outlet stores. This will include new stores, remodels, relocations, lease extensions and early terminations. Do you have experience Continue reading..
We have Intelligence Assistant vacancies available across our Intelligence Department. If you have an inquisitive mind, are a strong communicator and solution focussed, then why don’t you bring those transferable skills into a role in Intelligence. Intelligence information comes in many formats and making sense of these formats is a critical task for our Intelligence Continue reading..
Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world? At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 10 million students worldwide. We work with over28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric solutions Continue reading..
Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world? At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 10 million students worldwide. We work with over28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric solutions that improve education outcomes. What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification; we partner with schools, examination boards, central governments and other professional institutions to enrich the lives of learners. RM Group operates through three businesses: Technology (Managed Services, Software and Infrastructure for Schools), Assessment (Software and Services) and TTS (Educational Resources). Visit our website to find out more: www.rm.com The purpose of this role is to act as the bridge between finance and IT, reporting to our Operations Finance Director and working with the Head of IT. You will help the IT department to deliver its financial goals including setting budgets, forecasting and project reporting. The role requires collaboration with multiple departments (e.g. Finance, IT, HR, Procurement) so that you can deliver world-class financial insight while meeting tight deadlines. This role would be ideal for a newly or recently qualified accountant looking to take the next step on their Finance Business Partner career. Responsibilities Business Partner for IT within the Corporate Division • Simplify finance processes and build new reports to ensure that the Head of IT and Operations Finance Director have quality insightful data and analysis is a timely manner. • Work with the Head of IT, Head of Transformation, Procurement and HR Business Partner to drive business performance to help delivery of forecast/budget and wider strategic plan Monthly reporting packs • Produce and review monthly reporting including monthly forecasts • P&L reviews with FD • Balanced Scorecard • Monthly Budget Holder performance reviews, i.e. cost centre reviews. Lead & carry out monthly Forecasting and annual budgeting • Liaise with India and IT to enhance models to Operations Finance Director/Head of IT specification • Enable monthly reviews with cost centre/functional cost owners to review actuals and to forecast cost requirements Projects • Support with IT business case preparation and capitalisation decisions • Produce IT project reporting to review project performance Experience • Qualified accountant • Competent/ strong in Excel • Good organisational skills and a focus on timely deliverables • Highly numerate with an attention to detail and able to convey complex problems in a way that people can understand and act upon. • Be a positive and enthusiastic influence playing a big role in driving the business on to achieve its goals. • An understanding of IAS 38 • Experience of working in costs management preferably with IT or related experience from practice • Power BI experience desirable Communication skills: able to clearly and effectively communicate with colleagues, clients and stakeholders. Demonstrates good listening skills and adjusts communication style to suit the audience. Problem Solving: Identifies issues and develops effective solutions. Use logical thinking and resources to tackle challenges with minimal supervision. Collaboration and teamwork: Works well with others, fostering a positive team environment. Actively contributes to company objectives, respects different perspectives and assist colleagues as needed Attention to detail: Maintains accuracy and is thorough in all aspects of work. Timeliness: Able to prioritise multiple requests and deliver to tight deadlines. Resilience: We don’t expect you to have everything on this job spec but we want you to be driven to learn new things, experiment and sometimes fail but you need to dust yourself off and be willing to try again. What’s in it for you? At RM we have My Work Blend @RM which provides office-based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working options. As well as your office base, you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move. We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process. As well as a competitive salary and our core benefits package which includes private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available, some roles are also eligible for a performance-related bonus. There are lots of voluntary benefits too. You could buy additional annual leave, join our dental plan, sign up for a health assessment, or take part in our cycle to work scheme. You could even earn yourself an extra bonus for successfully recommending a friend or family member for a position within RM. To better reflect the society that we serve, we’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. To achieve this, we create teams of talented people from different backgrounds and experiences and strive to be a business where our people can bring their whole selves to work, we also want to make the recruitment process as inclusive as possible for everyone. Should you require additional support with your application or through the interview process, please contact us at recruitment@rm.com. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world? At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 10 million students worldwide. We work with over28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric solutions Continue reading..
Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world? At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 10 million students worldwide. We work with over28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric solutions that improve education outcomes. What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification; we partner with schools, examination boards, central governments and other professional institutions to enrich the lives of learners. RM Group operates through three businesses: Technology (Managed Services, Software and Infrastructure for Schools), Assessment (Software and Services) and TTS (Educational Resources). Within the assessment market we are experts in providing solutions for online exam testing and marking and the management and analysis of educational data. We work with government ministries, exam boards and professional awarding bodies for high stakes assessment such as GCSEs, A Levels, and professional qualifications. Each year, our software is used globally to conduct hundreds of thousands of on-screen tests and to mark millions of paper-based scripts. For over a decade we have been partnering with the world’s leading awarding bodies to deliver intuitive, secure, and reliable e-marking solutions. Visit our website to find out more: www.rm.com/assessment The Platform Engineering (PE) team focuses on RM Assessment’s e-assessment software products. Based in our offices across the UK, India and Australia, the team is responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and optimising the infrastructure platforms underpinning Assessment’s product portfolio. Reporting to the PE UK Team Lead, the Platform Engineer will work in a team that is responsible for continuously optimising Assessment’s infrastructure platforms, ensuring that costs are accurately captured and optimised, and that the infrastructure platforms meet business needs, are scalable and secure, and maintain high levels of availability. You will join an existing team of engineers in the UK and be part of the wider Technical Operations and Platform Engineering teams made up of around eighty engineers based in India, Australia and the UK. Working with Customer Support teams, Technical Architects and Application Developers you will play a crucial role in the evolution of our product portfolio into truly large-scale, high-margin, secure and reliable digital assessment and e-marking services for our customers. This role may require flexible working patterns to cover periods of extended working hours which may include up to 10pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 5pm Saturdays and Sundays, should the need arise. Responsibilities Provide ongoing support of the infrastructure underlying RM Assessment’s products and services, providing 4th line support for escalated support tickets and requests. Identify root cause issues (and fixes if possible) and work with the development team to drive product improvements. Work with technical architects, development leads and project teams to ensure changes to infrastructure and processes align with best practice and with a customer-led focus. Champion the adoption of DevOps processes and new technologies that simplify and enhance our operation. Continual Service Improvement – Ensure that the tools, products and skills associated with hosting and service delivery are constantly challenged and updated. Research industry best practice and contribute to the CSI programme within Technical Operations team. Represent Technical Operations in other CSI programmes and provide technical assistance and guidance as required. Team Support & Knowledge Transfer Drive knowledge development throughout the team to ensure that operational knowledge and skills are spread throughout the team. This team sits in a department of over 80 heads across TOps and PE in all regions. TOps and PE support 40 live customers across e-marking and e-assessment, with an ambitious growth plan. A Platform Engineer will be expected to work closely with internal customers at all levels within the organisation who develop, support or maintain the hosted applications. The engineer will have a direct impact on RM’s customers through enhanced system performance and reliability. This role does not involve budget or cost management or line management. Experience Essential: Time management skills: ability to understand business impact and prioritise tasks accordingly. Outstanding interpersonal skills, a highly personable, engaging approach and a strong alignment to RM’s core values: Customer success, high standards, respect for others, innovation, openness and enjoyment at work. Proven problem-solving skills: ability undertake complex root cause analysis and create customer facing and internal reports and recommendations. Strong working knowledge of core AWS services (including EC2, ECS, RDS, CloudFront) and/or core Azure services (including Windows VMs/IIS, AKS, SQL). Good working knowledge of network configuration in AWS and/or Azure. Good working knowledge of following products: Gitlab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Docker, Terraform, Bash, Packer, Ansible. Experience using and maintaining Terraform/Ansible scripts for build/deploy of AWS and/or Azure environments, Desirable: Demonstrable Customer Service skills, and ability to act as escalation point. Experience of supporting internal and client-facing cloud-hosted applications. Experience of supporting production-grade environments in AWS and/or Azure. Experience of supporting Microsoft SQL and/or Postgres databases and writing complex queries. What’s in it for you? At RM we have My Work Blend @RM which provides office-based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working options. As well as your office base, you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move. We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process. As well as a competitive salary and our core benefits package which includes private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available, some roles are also eligible for a performance-related bonus. There are lots of voluntary benefits too. You could buy additional annual leave, join our dental plan, sign up for a health assessment, or take part in our cycle to work scheme. You could even earn yourself an extra bonus for successfully recommending a friend or family member for a position within RM. To better reflect the society that we serve, we’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. To achieve this, we create teams of talented people from different backgrounds and experiences and strive to be a business where our people can bring their whole selves to work, we also want to make the recruitment process as inclusive as possible for everyone. Should you require additional support with your application or through the interview process, please contact us at recruitment@rm.com. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world? At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 10 million students worldwide. We work with over28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric solutions that improve education outcomes. What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification; we partner with schools, examination boards, central governments and other professional institutions to enrich the lives of learners. RM Group operates through three businesses: Technology (Managed Services, Software and Infrastructure for Schools), Assessment (Software and Services) and TTS (Educational Resources). RM Technology is a market-leading supplier of ICT products and services to UK schools and colleges to deliver a technology environment that improves learning outcomes and makes the most of IT investment, driving focus through four lines of business: Managed Services, Software, Hardware and Broadband Visit us here to find out more: www.rm.com/education The Technical Architecture Function sits within our Implementation & Consultancy Services Division and is responsible for the consultation and implementation of end-to-end technical solutions in customer environments. This is a customer facing role and requires the holder to spend a high proportion of their time building partnerships through face-to-face interactions. To be successful in this role you will be skilled at communicating complex technical solutions to a non-technical audience. You will be working with a range of stakeholders including customers, project teams, operational teams, service transition and sales/account managers. Customer Impact. For customers you will be a trusted technical expert, getting a full understanding of the customer’s strategy and vision and providing direction and steer. You will demonstrate RM’s unique understanding of the education environment. This leads into implementation where you will ensure that all technical deliverables are met to a high standard. For strategic customers you will take ownership of demonstrating the up-to-date view of the technology and the creation of a roadmap showing when technology will need replacing/upgrading. You will ensure that all contractual technical deliverables are met. Project Impact. At implementation you will be a key member of the project team ensuring consistent technical delivery. You will be responsible for signing off that all technical deliverables have been met and will provide a technical escalation point for all other team members. Operational Teams. Technical Architects will work with the Service Transition teams to ensure that the operational teams have everything they need with the new service or changed service ensuring it has been fully designed and implemented. Responsibilities Consultation with external stakeholders to capture long term strategy and vision. Provide steer on technical direction. Feed consultation output into Go To Market (GTM) teams to provide reliable quotation. Development of Technical Implementation documentation Understand emerging technology and how it applies to education. Continuous improvement – Help grow and strengthen RM Products and Services by providing feedback on implementations. Technical ownership for delivery of strategic contracts Consultation Work with key external stakeholders to understand and capture their strategy/vision for ICT and the base position. Based on requirements define the scope for the GTM teams to quote Deliver value for the customer. Implementation Work with key external stakeholders to ensure that they understand all the technical deliverables for the project. Work with the Project Team to ensure that all technical deliverables are accurately reflected in plan. Agree work instructions for the technical teams. Define Technical Acceptance Criteria Ensure areas for continuous improvement are identified and acted upon Work with the required stakeholders to get project acceptance. Work with the service transition teams to handover the project into the live environment. Aid the Early Life Support Period Strategy and approach Provide input to the RM Product Development and Service Development Teams Provide feedback to the RM GTM teams. Ensure all implementation activity is aligned to the company strategy and operating model. Support and Governance Provide support to other team members. Provide peer review and feedback on Solution Implementation Scopes Provide peer review and feedback on implementation issues. Provide expertise on technical aspects of customer complaints. Experience You will have proven experience of: Providing consultancy Architecting ICT Solutions Implementation of large-scale technical solutions Designing and implementing new service structures Experience implementing and managing large scale managed client environments. Experience in Identity Management, for example between on premises and cloud solutions You will be: A strong communicator, able to work with a variety of stakeholders, and effectively communicate technical knowledge to non-technical audiences. A confident collaborative team player, able to lead by example, and inspire and motivate others. Pro-active and driven by improvement, willing to take responsibility and have the mind-set for continuous improvement. Have flexibility to travel when required to customer sites across the UK. You will have: ITIL 4 Foundation Training Continue reading..
Do you want to be help enrich the lives of learners worldwide? At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector supporting over 10 million students around the world. We work with 28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric Continue reading..
Do you want to be help enrich the lives of learners worldwide? At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector supporting over 10 million students around the world. We work with 28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric Continue reading..
Do you want to be help enrich the lives of learners worldwide? At RM, we’ve been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector supporting over 10 million students around the world. We work with 28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric Continue reading..