AddressThe purpose of this role is to manage lifecycles for all managed assets (hardware, software, intellectual property, licenses, warranties etc.), support vendor contract performance reviews and contribute to monthly reporting by forecasting and monitoring expenditure to QCS ICT vendors.
- Manage lifecycle for all QCS managed assets (hardware, software, intellectual property, licenses, warranties etc), including ensuring assets are identified, controlled, managed and protected throughout its lifecycle, and reliable information about those assets are available when and where it is needed
- Prepare and annually review the QCS Asset Replacement Program
- Monitor software licenses to ensure optimum/legal license utilisation and allocation and maintain tools for software distribution and installation
- Provide information and advice on issues such as maintenance of hardware assets, licensing of software, protection of intellectual property and legal obligations
- Provide financial management support for DS&IT Group by forecasting and monitoring payments to third party providers, preparing and monitoring purchase orders, invoice payments, and submissions of monthly accruals
- Monitor expenditure against year to date budget on a monthly basis for departmental expenditure across all IT-related costs
- Maintain the IT contract register and monitor actual expenditure against each contract payment schedules and escalate where misalignment to cash flows
- Contribute to contract reviews and contract negotiation processes by providing necessary supporting information and data to enable delivery of savings and other benefits
- Maintain a review process to evaluate performance against IT contract key performance indicators and targets as outlined in the contract provisions, providing data and reports to senior managers and in support of monthly or quarterly performance review meetings with vendors.
Applications to remain current for 12 months
