Assurance Analyst

HM98: Assurance Analyst
Location: Remote with Occasional Travel Contract 6 Months
Salary: Competitive Day Rate In Scope IR35
Overview:
First Military Recruitment are currently seeking an Assurance Analyst on behalf of one of our clients.
This requirement is for a short-term specialist contractor to provide delivery, analytical and coordination support to the Head of Cyber Strategy. The role will ensuring robust engagement across the practice and timely production of strategy, governance and operating model deliverables. It will maintain programme momentum and act as a deputy for the Head of Cyber Strategy when required.
Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Building relationships with key stakeholders, facilitating engagements and workshops and coordinating contributions from multiple teams and stakeholders to support the timely production of programme deliverables.
• Drafting, maintaining and quality-assuring supporting documentation, including but not limited to strategy papers, evidence analysis reports, governance products, analytical summaries and progress meeting dashboards.
• Producing operating model artefacts and supporting materials, including process maps, RACI matrices, capability frameworks, stakeholder maps and governance models.
• Synthesising information from workshops, subject matter experts, existing reviews and programme activities into clear, structured and actionable outputs.
• Preparing briefing papers, presentations and senior leadership packs to support programme governance and decision-making.
• Conducting evidence gathering and analysis across existing policies, management information, risk assessments and reports to support strategy and operating model development.
• Maintaining programme documentation, action logs, trackers and version control to ensure consistency, accuracy and transparency across the workstream.
• Supporting governance and programme management activities to ensure effective coordination and delivery.
• Accelerate the development of key strategy and operating model products.
• Secure and analyse stakeholder contributions so that areas of agreement, challenge, dependency and outstanding decision are visible and can be acted upon.
• Support delivery of Digital and cyber transformation objectives.
• Improve programme coordination, governance and stakeholder engagement.
• Provide a robust evidence base to inform organisational design and future resourcing decisions.
• Reduce delivery risks associated with capacity constraints during a critical phase of transformation.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Cyber security knowledge and understanding, demonstrated through a degree or professional experience in a cyber-related discipline such as cyber strategy, cyber policy, cyber assurance, cyber risk management or other relevant domain.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and influencing skills, with demonstrable experience in bringing together diverse stakeholders through workshops and engagement activities, resolving competing perspectives and enabling collaborative progress towards a common goal.
• Experience in changing and improving across processes and organisational transformation programmes with demonstrable evidence in seeking and collating feedback and using it to reshape ways of working, roles and responsibilities and organisational designs to facilitate change.
• Experienced at delivering quality outcomes at pace, demonstrated though excellent coordination and prioritisation within complex environments with minimal supervision.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated through experience producing high-quality presentations, briefings, dashboards and wider strategy artefacts.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to review, analyse and summarise quantitative and qualitative information a range of tools, and produce concise, evidence-based recommendations.
• Active SC Clearance is essential.

Location: Remote with Occasional Travel Contract 6 Months
Salary: Competitive Day Rate In Scope IR35