Finance Business Partner/Management Accounting Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Mawrth 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £41,600 i £48,792 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | National: £41,600 min - £44,512 max. London £45,600 min - £48,792 max. |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Ebrill 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | London |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 345662/3 |
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The Finance Directorate is one of the most dynamic and forward-looking places to work. We provide professional finance advice and challenge which ensures that the Home Office delivers value for money to the taxpayer and protects the Accounting Officers in their responsibilities for regularity, propriety, value for money and feasibility on all spending decisions.
We value every person who works in the Finance Directorate and offer opportunities for our staff to develop whether through formal training, on the job development or lateral moves to develop new skills. We support staff who wish to achieve a finance qualification with paid study leave and exam support.
The Home Office Finance group is dedicated to promoting equality and valuing diversity. We are committed to ensuring that every talented and hard-working person can rise to the top, whatever their background and whoever they are.
Your personal qualities will be as important as your professional experience, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds. If you believe you have the skills and qualities we are looking for, then we would like to hear from you.
As part of Illegal Migration Act (IMA), capability is being expanded significantly. This all requires additional financial support, critical observation and reporting and so a dedicated resource is now needed.
We have exciting opportunities for finance professionals to join our team within Programme Finance, Management Accounting and Finance Business Partnering, and we will hold a reserve list should any further roles at SEO become available.
The roles currently available include:
• Programme Finance Business Partner
This role supports financial decision making within Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) and Home Office critical Programmes. The post holder will be responsible for providing accurate financial reporting, strategic financial advice, and management information for various projects and workstreams to ensure that programme teams deliver against plans, objectives and outcomes.
• Management Accounting Officer
This is a key post within Accounting Operations and requires the post holder to undertake management accounts for within the IMA and 10-point plan portfolio. The role is varied and requires the post holder to understand key complexities within business areas, liaising with Finance Business Partner teams and operational areas.
• Finance Business Partner (FBP)
The FBP team play a key role in the financial business planning and in-year financial monitoring and forecasting of budgets. They provide strategic support and challenge to business areas to ensure that decisions are made with reference to financial information and consequences.
Other roles may also become available, and you will be asked for your preference if you are invited to interview. We will also be able to provide more information on each of the current roles at that stage.
Please note that new entrants to the Civil Service will be appointed at the pay scale minimum for that grade but an additional £4,000 allowance is applicable to SEO staff with a full CIMA or CCAB qualification. The usual T&Cs apply for existing civil servants.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estates capacity, by Spring 2024. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details).
Key Responsibilities
• Build and maintain effective key stakeholder relationships.
• Provide regular finance project/workstream reports incorporating costs and benefits.
• Offer input and expert advice, including financial modelling, whole lifecycle costing and scenario analysis.
• Input into financial case production in business cases.
• Identify, assess and track benefits.
• Actively oversee and report risks and opportunities against the latest plan and financial forecasts.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards (e.g., Capital Departmental Expenditure Limits (CDEL)/Resource Departmental Expenditure Limits (RDEL) classification).
• Oversee asset management processes.
• Implement the corporate system of financial control and ensure workstream financial controls are efficient.
• Provide constructive challenge, ensuring transparency and proactively addressing emerging trends.
• Support Lead FBP in strategic finance leadership of functional areas within the business area.
• Assist with collating iterations of costings for HM Treasury on the IMA in order to secure funding.
• Supporting the creation of Accounting Officer notes for the Permanent Secretary in relation to various elements of the IMA, updating these when necessary.
• Identifying key objectives in communicating financial data.
• Partner leadership teams to support decision making and governance, including attendance at and influencing governance and senior leadership team/boards.
• Work with business partners, provide planning models and trend data to inform the annual budget and workforce plans.
Note: The post holder may be required to carry out other duties within the scope of the grade and within the limits of their skill, competence, and training.