FCMC PM COTS Analysis and Finance Requirements

Description

FCMC PM COTS Analysis and Finance Requirements 


Project Manager with experience of managing commercial evaluation exercises for high value technology solutions (£5-20million) to oversee management of procurement process and data cleansing activity for the Future Case Management Capability project.

Number	Outcome/ Deliverable	Description	Acceptance Criteria
			
1	Oversee production of requirements by Business Analyst for Finance System engagement and PIN exercise for COTS 	Work with BA to plan production of requirements building on project work already carried out. Monitor production of requirements against plan. 	Production of finance system requirements and requirement for PIN exercise, signed off by SMEs from business area and Enterprise Architect
2	Manage engagement with Finance System suppliers to deliver time and cost estimate for   requirements for financial processing system (integrated with case management system)	Work with DTS and Commercial Team and engage with appropriate supplier(s) to obtain time and cost estimate to deliver new or amended finance system functionality to integrate with target case management capability. 	Production of time and cost estimate to deliver required changes to finance system for target case management capability. 
3	Manage Prior Information Notice (PIN) exercise for insolvency transaction processing Commercial off the shelf Solutions  	Work with Commercial Team to plan and prepare documentation for PIN exercise to market test availability of suitable COTS solutions for insolvency transaction processing and case management. 

To include management of supplier event and system demonstrations, and engagement with potential suppliers.  	Completed PIN exercise for COTS 
4	Analysis of outcome of PIN 	Produce evaluation/analysis methodology and documentation for PIN exercise (including supplier event/demonstrations) and carry out evaluation post PIN. 	Produce report on PIN exercise outcome 
5	Weekly reporting on progress 	Weekly report on progress, to feed into project monthly summary report 	Produce weekly report on progress

Having led and completed the assessment of the current functionality of the agency's finance management systems in order to understand the changes required to enable the successful delivery of future case management capabilities and the Prior Information Notice (PIN) exercise to test and confirm the functional fit of potential COTS solutions to deliver our case management requirements for ORS and EAS. This role is now to manage the formal procurement process, and to manage critical data cleansing activity in preparation for data migration.