Value Assurance Lead

Salary: £59,000 - 99,000 per year

Requirements:

• 10+ years in value management, benefits realisation, value assurance, portfolio / PMO governance or finance business partnering, with a track record of operating a governed value or benefits process end-to-end to executive / Finance sign-off.
• A proven ability to configure, apply and govern a value framework to Finance-grade sign-off, including classifying initiatives, agreeing baselines, measures and ownership, and running the evidence and sign-off cadence.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, comfortable across cost, capacity and portfolio value, and able to make value defensible and engage a Finance function credibly.
• A track record of translating operational or strategic outcomes into defensible, quantified value with executive and Finance buy-in.
• The ability to bring structure to a large, ambiguous portfolio and drive it to a defensible, signed-off position.
• Credible partnering with CFO / Finance / ExCo stakeholders within an engagement; independent and evidence-first, willing to say when an investment has no defensible case.
• Comfortable operating enterprise value-management / governed-workflow software.
• A recognized accountancy or finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CFA) is advantageous.
• A formal benefits credential (Managing Benefits, MoP) is desirable.
• Sector fluency relevant to a specific engagement (financial services, life sciences, energy, insurance and others) is desirable.
• Experience may come from in-house roles and/or consulting; what matters is demonstrated operation of a governed value process.
• An advanced degree (MBA or similar) is desirable.

Responsibilities:

• Configure and apply the value framework to our clients portfolio, using the value taxonomy, attribution and anti-double-counting rules, and evidence standards provided by our Value Operating Model.
• Structure each initiative or investment consistently, including investment, value lens, baseline, target, measures and owner, and resolve double-counting across the portfolio.
• Classify each initiative by strength of evidence and produce an honest, evidence-tiered portfolio read.
• Surface plainly any investment that has no defensible value case.
• Partner with the clients Finance function to validate baselines and evidence standards and secure sign-off.
• Design the approach to monitoring realization over time.
• Present insights and recommendations to executive stakeholders, and demonstrate the framework in the value-management cockpit.
• On deployment, potentially act as Value Governance Lead, authoring and governing the configuration and operating the sign-off cadence while upholding strict segregation of duties.

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We are appointing senior value leads to run our first-phase value engagements: focused, fixed-scope work that gives enterprise clients a governed value framework and an evidence-based read across a portfolio of investments or initiatives before any decision about a longer-term platform or managed service. The role is sector-agnostic, with relevant domain fluency brought to each assignment as required, and it can progress into our Value Governance Lead role if a client proceeds to platform deployment. We offer a senior, high-visibility role shaping how major organisations evidence the value of their investment across sectors, with a clear path from engagement lead into an ongoing value-governance leadership role.

last updated 35 week of 2026