Senior Commercial Finance Manager (Qualified)
| Posting date: | 24 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £56,230 to £73,261 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The salary range is from £56,230 to £67,492 (for National based locations only), and £62,168 to £73,261 (London only) Civil Servants applying on promotion will usually be appointed to the salary minimum or within 10% of existing salary. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 July 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 356947/1 |
Summary
The Commercial Finance team is a small team with a broad reach, operating across critical commercial and procurement categories and projects, providing colleagues with financial guidance and support, before and during the life of critical commercial contracts.
As a team we’re responsible for providing financial support to major procurements projects and post contract award support, which includes Open Book analysis, supplier viability analysis, payment modelling, and financial Strategy development.
The position of Senior Commercial Finance Manager will be focused largely upon commercial finance activity supporting different workstreams within the Commercial Directorate, currently Employment, Health, and Estates.
Tell me more about the position
You’re a senior, trusted and expert voice on Commercial Finance. You’ll provide specialist and strategic commercial finance advice to senior decision makers and ministerial advisors.
Our team supports over £6bn of public sector tenders. We help our customers in designing payment methodology for new procurement activity, drive the financial evaluation strategy, and leading in procurement dialogue and contract negotiations.
DWP is a huge organisation, and we have a complex stakeholder network. You’ll collaborate with, and support senior stakeholders within Commercial, Operational and Policy communities. Acting as a business partner you’ll provide analytical insight and data-driven recommendations to them, with the commercial wisdom to challenge when needed, and help develop and implement our wider approach to commercial finance.
Career Development & Learning
Colleagues have joined us from a variety of backgrounds, sectors and specialisms; they enjoy the exposure and stretch opportunity this position provides.
Your learning, development and career growth journey doesn’t end when you join DWP. It’s just getting started. Everyone in DWP gets a guaranteed 5-days learning per year when they want to expand their accounting skills, and the reality is you’ll have access to as much learning as you want.
DWP Finance has a significant remit to implement the Government’s welfare and economic growth so there is lots of opportunity to progress.
We have a highly supportive and collaborative finance and commercial community here – you’ll be able to tap into that expertise through coaching and mentoring programmes and the collaborative nature of your work.