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Role: Group Corporate Risk Officer

Location: Glasgow/Hybrid

Salary: Grade B2 Max-3 £39,767

Contract Type: Fixed Term 12 months.

ABOUT SCOTTISH RAIL HOLDINGS

Scottish Rail Holdings (SRH) is a limited company and public body in Scotland with accountability to Scottish Government Ministers for the delivery of rail passenger services in support of the Scottish Government’s objectives as set out in the National Transport Strategy. We are focused on delivering a safe, reliable, and green railway for our passengers and guests, while providing value for money for the taxpayer.
SRH has oversight of the governance and performance of two subsidiary train operating companies: ScotRail Trains Limited (ScotRail) and Caledonian Sleeper Limited (CSL). We are also part of a group of stakeholders known as Scotland’s Railway, which includes infrastructure manager Network Rail Scotland, cross border train operating companies, statutory bodies, and suppliers. SRH commenced operations in April 2022, when ScotRail was taken into public ownership.

At Scottish Rail Holdings, our core values of Respect, Champion Ambition, Integrity, Celebrate Diversity and Growing Together underpin everything we do. We believe that fostering a respectful and collaborative working environment is essential in supporting our employees’ contributions and wellbeing. SRH is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the communities we serve.

The Role

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Group Corporate Risk Officer to join our team in Glasgow on a Fixed Term basis. 

HOW OUR VALUES SHAPE THIS ROLE: 

Respect: Respect all our People, Communities, and our visitors

Champion Ambition: Drive and celebrate a culture of creativity and ambition. Encourage challenge.

Integrity: Be reliable and trustworthy. Take responsibility and accountability for your actions.

Growing Together: Collaborate, learn, and develop together.

Celebrate Diversity: Embrace our differences and celebrate them to foster a positive and supportive environment.

Job Description

Scottish Rail Holdings Limited (SRH) is a limited company whose sole shareholder is the Scottish Ministers. SRH has been set up with the express purpose of overseeing the governance of train operating companies under Section 30 of the Railways Act 1993. SRH act as the “owning group” of the operating companies and provides separation between Transport Scotland as strategic policymakers and the direct management of train service delivery by SRH’s subsidiaries ScotRail Trains Limited (SRT) and Caledonian Sleeper Limited (CSL).

SRH’s role is to oversee the delivery of services, targets and KPIs by its subsidiaries, including commitments within its Business and Corporate Plans, and to support SRT and CSL in the development of policies and projects. In addition, SRH oversees performance of each of its subsidiaries against a Grant Agreement. SRH liaises with the Transport Scotland Sponsorship Team on matters relating to SRT and CSL and its performance.

SRH is classified as an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) and reports to the Scottish Ministers, with its obligations set out in a Framework Agreement with Transport Scotland, who are responsible for transport policy and strategy.

The Role

The SRH Audit and Risk Manager leads on the development and implementation of effective risk management arrangements across the SRH Group in line with the approved Risk Management Strategy. Risk management arrangements across the Group are at different stages of development, but our objective is to secure the implementation of a consistent approach across the Group. This appointment is key in further progressing and embedding relevant arrangements. 

 The Group Corporate Risk Officer – Fixed Term will participate in the development and delivery of a comprehensive risk management service to the Group. This will involve assisting in the delivery and development of the Group’s risk management strategy, approach, and framework for risk management. To provide advice, guidance and support to senior management and risk owners across the Group.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Assisting in the development and implementation of consistent and best practice compliant risk management arrangements in line with the approved Risk Management Strategy across the Group.
• Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with service contacts.
• Guiding and supporting Group subsidiaries in the preparation, maintenance and monitoring of risk registers and risk control plans.
• Providing advice, guidance, and support to progress risk management arrangements across the Group.
• To contribute input to reports to senior management, Audit & Risk Committees and Boards as required.
• To deliver risk management training and awareness sessions to management and risk owners.

Capability 

Professional / Technical Requirements

• Educated to HND/SVQ4/degree level or equivalent, membership of a recognised Risk Management body and/or a Risk Management qualification are desirable.
• The candidate will have excellent analytical and decision-making skills, coupled with the ability to communicate information on risk requirements in an accessible way for a non-expert audience.
• Knowledge experience of working with Enterprise Risk Management tools is desirable
• Proven organisational and planning skills, including the ability to manage complex requirements and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent inter-personal skills and proven ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment, building constructive relationships with colleagues to deliver business objectives.

Experience

The ideal candidate will have risk management experience gained in a large public or private sector organisation with experience of delivering risk management initiatives, providing advice and guidance on risk management, on the development and monitoring of risk registers and on the development of management information.

Behaviour Competency

Setting Direction

Seeing the Big Picture

• Keeps up to date with a broad set of issues relating to the work of SRH.
• Develops an understanding of how own and team’s work supports achievement of SRH priorities and delivery to the public.
• Focuses on the overall business goal and intent of what they are trying to achieve, not just the task.
• Takes an active interest in expanding their knowledge of SRH and its purpose or goals.

Changing & improving

• Understands and applies technology to achieve efficient and effective business and personal results.
• Takes initiative to suggest improvements, sharing this feedback with others in a constructive manner.
• Regularly reviews what and who is required to make an activity successful and makes on-going improvements.
• Puts aside preconceptions and considers new ideas on their own merits.
• Helps colleagues, customers (internal and external), and partners to understand change and why it was introduced.
•  Identifies, resolves, or escalates the positive and negative effects that change may have on own role/team.

Analysis & Making Effective Decisions

• Demonstrates accountability and willingness to take decisions at own grade.
• Examines complex information and obtains further information to make accurate, evidence-based decisions.
• Speaks with relevant people to obtain accurate information. Consults when unsure how to proceed.
• Explains clearly, verbally and in writing, how a decision has been reached.
• Provides advice and feedback to support others to make accurate decisions.
• Monitors the storage of critical data and customer information to support decision making and conduct regular reviews to ensure it is stored securely, accurately, confidentially, and responsibly.

Engaging People

Leading & communicating

• Demonstrates initiative and willingness to share ideas and expertise with others.
• Communicates in a polite and respectful fashion; Is suitably assertive when required.
• Expresses ideas accurately and effectively, both orally and in writing
• Confidently handles challenging conversations or interviews.
• Communicates to meet audience needs, tailoring as required.
• Listens to, understands, respects, and accepts the value of different views, ideas, and ways of working.

Collaborating & partnering

• Actively builds and maintains a wide network of colleagues and contacts to achieve progress on objectives and shared interests.
• Demonstrates genuine care for colleagues and others, is approachable and builds strong interpersonal relationships.
• Encourages contributions and involvement from a broad and diverse range of colleagues by being visible and accessible.
• Works as an effective team player, managing team dynamics when working across SRH boundaries and other boundaries.
• Actively involves partners to deliver a business outcome through collaboration that achieves better results for rail passengers.
• Seeks constructive outcomes in discussions, challenges assumptions but remains willing to compromise when it is beneficial to progress.

Building Capability for All

• Takes ownership of own development by identifying capability needs and consistently achieving development objectives.
• Takes responsibility for the quality of own work and seeking opportunities for improvement through continuous learning.
• Proactively supports the development plans of others.
• Takes account of the diverse contributions of team members and (if appropriate) delegates work to improve capabilities of others.
• Encourages and is open to giving and receiving developmental feedback from others.

Delivering Results

Delivering Value for Money

• Is careful with all types of resource (e.g. money, time, materials, fuel, energy)
• Questions others appropriately where they see wastage and inefficiency.
•  Is aware of and complies with procurement processes Maintains recognised financial procedures and practices

Demonstrating Commitment & Drive

• Focuses self on maintaining pace and progress with all tasks and activities.
• Is interested and positive about what they and others are trying to achieve.
• Take ownership of problems in their own area of responsibility.
• Remains positive and focused on achieving outcomes despite challenges and setbacks.
• Checks own performance against outcomes, makes improvement suggestions, or takes corrective action when problems are identified.

Ensure High Quality Delivery

• Coordinates work with others to ensure outcomes are met.
• Works with others to set priorities and deadlines, creates clear plans and manages all work to meet the needs of the customer (internal and external) and the business.
• Regularly reviews workload and modifies plans as required.
• Keeps internal teams, customers (internal and external) and delivery partners fully informed of plans and possibilities.
• Promotes adherence to relevant policies and procedures; Identifies common problems or weaknesses in policy or procedures that affect service, and escalates these.

WHAT WE OFFER

• 25 days annual leave (plus 11.5 Public / Privilege holidays)
• Civil Service pension scheme 
• Rail Staff Travel on Scotrail for yourself.
• Rail Leisure travel on Caledonian Sleeper for you and eligible family members 
• Healthcare cash plan 
• HAPI Benefits membership offering discounts at selected retailers, hospitality venues, and gyms etc. 
• Winter vaccine scheme
• Learning & Development programme
• Employee Assistance Programme

To apply for this dynamic role, please email your CV and short cover email to:

Email Contact: srhrecruitment@railholdings.scot

Closing date: 18^th September 2026 @ 5pm

Stage 1 Interviews will be held week commencing 28 September 2026, with a Stage 2 interview expected week commencing 05 October 2026.

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Role: Finance Manager

Location: Glasgow/Hybrid

Grade: C1 £62,111

Contract Type: Fixed Term 12 Months

ABOUT SCOTTISH RAIL HOLDINGS

Scottish Rail Holdings (SRH) is a limited company and public body in Scotland with accountability to Scottish Government Ministers for the delivery of rail passenger services in support of the Scottish Government’s objectives as set out in the National Transport Strategy. We are focused on delivering a safe, reliable, and green railway for our passengers and guests, while providing value for money for the taxpayer.
SRH has oversight of the governance and performance of two subsidiary train operating companies: ScotRail Trains Limited (ScotRail) and Caledonian Sleeper Limited (CSL). We are also part of a group of stakeholders known as Scotland’s Railway, which includes infrastructure manager Network Rail Scotland, cross border train operating companies, statutory bodies, and suppliers. SRH commenced operations in April 2022, when ScotRail was taken into public ownership.

At Scottish Rail Holdings, our core values of Respect, Champion Ambition, Integrity, Celebrate Diversity and Growing Together underpin everything we do. We believe that fostering a respectful and collaborative working environment is essential in supporting our employees’ contributions and wellbeing. SRH is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the communities we serve.

The Role

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join our team in Glasgow on a Fixed Term basis.

HOW OUR VALUES SHAPE THIS ROLE: 

Respect: Respect all our People, Communities, and our visitors.

Champion Ambition: Drive and celebrate a culture of creativity and ambition. Encourage challenge.

Integrity: Be reliable and trustworthy. Take responsibility and accountability for your actions.

Celebrate Diversity: Embrace our differences and celebrate them to foster a positive and supportive environment.

Growing Together: Collaborate, learn, and develop together.

Job Description

Scottish Rail Holdings Limited (SRH) is a limited company whose sole shareholder is the Scottish Ministers. SRH has been set up with the express purpose of overseeing the governance of train operating companies under Section 30 of the Railways Act 1993. SRH act as the “owning group” of the operating companies and provides separation between Transport Scotland as strategic policymakers and the direct management of train service delivery by SRH’s subsidiaries ScotRail Trains Limited (SRT) and Caledonian Sleeper Limited (CSL).

SRH’s role is to oversee the delivery of services, targets and KPIs by its subsidiaries, including commitments within its Business and Corporate Plans, and to support SRT and CSL in the development of policies and projects. In addition, SRH oversees performance of each of its subsidiaries against a Grant Agreement. SRH liaises with the Transport Scotland Sponsorship Team on matters relating to SRT and CSL and its performance.

SRH is classified as an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) and reports to the Scottish Ministers, with its obligations set out in a Framework Agreement with Transport Scotland, who are responsible for transport policy and strategy.

The Role

This Finance Manager will provide finance management support across SRH, with responsibility for financial analysis, reporting, oversight, and challenge. They will review and critique SRT’s and CSL’s periodic reporting packs, budgets, and forecasts, providing insight on financial performance, risks, opportunities, and value for money.

The Finance Manager will be accountable for the quality and timeliness of periodic Grant in Aid requests to Transport Scotland, the consolidation and interpretation of financial data for SRH, and the preparation of clear, decision-focused SRH Finance Board papers for review by the SRH Financial Controller.

Routine finance administration, including invoice processing, purchase order administration and initial transactional preparation, will be supported by a Finance Assistant, with the Finance Manager providing Line management.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a key finance contact for SRT, CSL, Transport Scotland and other stakeholders, supporting effective financial oversight, challenge, and decision-making.
• Lead the review and critique of subsidiaries’ periodic reporting packs, budgets and forecasts, identifying key movements, risks, assumptions, and areas requiring further scrutiny.
• Prepare and quality assure periodic Grant in Aid requests to Transport Scotland, consolidated SRH financial reporting and Finance Board papers, ensuring outputs are accurate, insightful, and suitable for senior review.
• Manage cash oversight, including review of cash balances, funding requirements and 13-week cash flow forecasts, with administrative updates supported by the Finance Assistant.
• Lead or support SRH’s internal budget-setting, forecasting and management reporting processes, working with budget holders to provide financial advice, challenge, and insight.
• Oversee payroll-related finance processes, including salary, PAYE/NI, and pension payments, working with the outsourced payroll provider and Finance Assistant to ensure reconciliations, approvals and payments are completed accurately.
• Review and approve monthly journals, reconciliations and Xero postings prepared by the Finance Assistant, ensuring the management accounts are complete, accurate and supported by appropriate audit trails.
• Provide oversight of purchase order, invoice and payment processes administered by the Finance Assistant, ensuring financial controls, authorisations and delegated authorities are complied with.
• Provide support with annual HMRC compliance e.g., compiling documentation to produce corporation tax and P11D returns.
• Line manage and guide the Finance Assistant, allocating administrative and transactional tasks, reviewing outputs, and supporting development while retaining accountability for finance quality and control.
• Deputise for the SRH Financial Controller as required, including representing finance matters in meetings, supporting governance requirements, and contributing to continuous improvement in SRH finance processes.

Essential Criteria

The role holder must hold a recognised accountancy qualification from CIMA, ICAS, ICAEW, ACCA or CIPFA.

Experience of working in a finance, accounting, accounts payable, or similar financial administration environment is required.

They will have operated at a senior level both technically and professionally, with Board level exposure being desirable.

Exposure to both private and public sector accounting and governance is also desirable, along with an understanding of the UK rail industry and the political, commercial, and legal complexities.

Professional / Technical Skills

• Comprehensive Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Excellent communication skills with exceptional standard of written and verbal English and must have strong attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including working with a wide range of stakeholders and building positive relationships.
• Resilient with ability to take initiative and meet tight deadlines.

Behaviour Competency – Grade C

Setting Direction

Seeing the Big Picture

• Anticipates economic, social, legal, political, environmental, and technological developments to keep activity relevant and targeted.
• Identify and shape how own area fits within and supports the work of the organisation and priorities for the national interest, public and economic good.
• Creates policies, plans, and service provision to meet citizens’ diverse needs based on current knowledge of needs, issues, and relevant good practice.
• Ensures relevant issues relating to their activity/policy area are effectively fed into strategy and bigger picture considerations.
• Adopts a government-wide perspective to ensure alignment of activity and policy.
• Brings together views and perspectives of stakeholders to gain a wider picture of the landscape surrounding activities and policies.

Changing & improving

• Understands and identifies the role of technology in public service delivery and policy implementation.
• Encourages and recognises a culture of initiative and innovation focused on adding value – gives people space and praise for creativity.
• Effectively captures, utilises and shares customer (internal and external) feedback from a diverse range of stakeholders to ensure better policy and delivery.
• Spots warning signs of things going wrong and provides a decisive response to significant delivery challenges.
• Provides constructive challenge to senior management on change proposals which will affect own business area.

Analysis & Making Effective Decisions

• Pushes decision making to the right level within their teams, not allowing unnecessary bureaucracy and structure to suppress delivery.
• Ensures the secure and careful use of all government and public data and information within their area.
• Analyses and evaluates data from various sources to identify pros and cons and identify risks in order to make well considered decisions.
• Draws together and presents reasonable conclusions from a wide range of incomplete and complex evidence and data – able to act or decide even when details are not clear.
• Identifies the key issues in complex problems, clarifies understanding or stakeholder expectations, to seek best option.
• Makes difficult decisions by pragmatically weighing the complexities involved against the need to act.

Engaging People

Leading & communicating

• Is visible to colleagues and stakeholders and regularly undertakes activities to engage and build trust with others.
• Clarifies strategies and plans, communicates purpose and direction with clarity and enthusiasm.
• Stands by, promotes or defends own (and team’s) actions and decisions where needed.
• Confidently engages with stakeholders and colleagues at all levels to generate commitment to goals. Seeks to build high performing teams.
• Leads by example, communicates in a truthful, straightforward manner with integrity and impartiality, and supports SRH values, and strategic objectives.
•  Is open and inviting of the views of others and responds despite pressure to ignore, revert or concede.

Collaborating & partnering

• Actively builds and maintains a wide network of colleagues and contacts to achieve progress on objectives and shared interests.
• Demonstrates genuine care for colleagues and others, is approachable and builds strong interpersonal relationships.
• Encourages contributions and involvement from a broad and diverse range of colleagues by being visible and accessible.
• Works as an effective team player, managing team dynamics when working across SRH boundaries and other boundaries.
• Actively involves partners to deliver a business outcome through collaboration that achieves better results for rail passengers.
• Seeks constructive outcomes in discussions, challenges assumptions but remains willing to compromise when it is beneficial to progress.

Building Capability for All

• Ensures that individual and organisational learning and talent development opportunities are fully exploited to enhance organisational capability.
• Role models work-place based learning and encourages development, talent, and career management for all colleagues.
• Coaches and supports colleagues to take responsibility for their own development (through giving accountability, varied assignments, and on-going feedback)
• Establishes and drives intra and inter-team discussions to learn from experience and adapt organisational processes and plans.
• Identifies capability requirements needed to deliver future team objectives and behaviours which supports teams to succeed in delivering to meet those needs.
• Prioritises and role models continuous self-learning and development, including leadership, management, and people skills.

Delivering Results

Delivering Value for Money

• Understands impacts of financial position in own area and that of the organisation and uses insight to curtail or support business and investment activities.
• Achieves the best return on investment and delivers more for less on specific budgets by managing resources and maximising the use of assets.
• Balances policy aspiration and delivery, outlines risk and benefits of different options to achieve value for money ensuring all submissions contain appropriate financial information.
• Understands the commercial drivers that influence suppliers and levers that can be used in negotiating/influencing contractual arrangements, taking appropriate advice from commercial and procurement experts.
• Able to recognise and understand the commercial tools such as pricing models, open book accounting, supply chain management that commercial experts can deploy to extract value from contracts.
• Motivates improved performance by suppliers, challenges any gaps between contractual commitments and actual delivery through joint working with commercial /procurement expert.

Demonstrating Commitment & Drive

• Gets the best out of people by being positive and encouraging about priorities, objectives, and expectations.
• Clarifies business priorities, roles and responsibilities and secures individual and team ownership.
• Adopts clear processes and standards for managing performance at all levels.
• Acts as a role model in supporting and energising teams to build confidence in their ability to deliver outcomes.
• Maintains effective performance in difficult and challenging circumstances, encourages others to do the same.
• Reviews, challenges and adjusts performance levels to ensure quality outcomes are delivered on time, rewarding success.

Ensure High-Quality Delivery

• Exemplifies positive customer service behaviours. Promotes a culture of putting passenger first.
• Makes clear, pragmatic, and manageable plans for service delivery using programme and project management methods.
• Promotes and advocates for regular opportunities for colleagues and customers to help improve service quality and demonstrates a visible involvement.
• Responds to passenger’ needs promoting new technology where relevant.
• Ensures adherence to legal, regulatory and security requirements in service delivery and builds diversity and equality considerations into plans.
• Establishes how the rail industry in Scotland compares to customer service expectations and industry best practice and identifies necessary improvements

WHAT WE OFFER

• 25 days annual leave (plus 11.5 Public / Privilege holidays)
• Civil Service pension scheme
• Rail Staff Travel on Scotrail for yourself.
• Rail Leisure travel on Caledonian Sleeper for you and eligible family members
• Healthcare cash plan
• HAPI Benefits membership offering discounts at selected retailers, hospitality venues, and gyms etc.
• Winter vaccine scheme
• Learning & Development programme
• Employee Assistance Programme

To apply for this dynamic role, please email your CV and short cover email to:

Email Contact: srhrecruitment@railholdings.scot

Closing date: 25^th September 2026 @ 5pm

Stage 1 Interviews will be held week commencing 05 October 2026, with a Stage 2 interview expected week commencing 12 October 2026.

We will require to process your personal data when considering your application and throughout the recruitment process. For information on how we process your personal data visit Privacy Policy – Scottish Rail Holdings