Strategic Command Financial Reporting & Accounting Senior Manager
| Posting date: | 14 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £59,690 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 May 2025 |
| Location: | HA6 3HP |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 399201 |
Summary
Financial Reporting and Accounting are expected to manage the production of their financial reporting, ensuring required processes are in place to give assurance on the quality of the numbers. Providing a suitably robust input to be incorporated into the MOD financial accounts, whilst highlighting key issues, risks, and opportunities. Managing other external reporting outputs including responses to Parliamentary Questions and FOIs. They will offer accounting advice and work with finance colleagues and auditors to agree accounting treatments.
Providing insight to the Business, Finance Leadership Team, and wider Finance teams
Managing the production, including appropriate review and escalation where necessary of the organisation’s financial accounts, for presentation to the Finance Director for review and approval, highlighting key issues through analysis.
Reviewing, analysing, and interpreting financial data, providing insight for senior managers and decision makers.
Inputting and drafting reports to Audit Committee and other key stakeholders on the key features of the financial accounts and status of key issues and risks.
Routine Requirements
Managing the audit programme, undertaking engagement with Strategic Head Office and/or auditors providing updates on material or complex issues, monitoring progress of audits, outstanding audit issues and implementation of recommendations.
Working with the Financial Governance and Control team to ensure suitable controls / checks are in place, such as compliance with accounting standards and financial policy, to maintain accuracy and identify/escalate issues.
Providing accounting / tax advice, engaging with the Technical Accounting and Tax Centres of Excellence to agree accounting treatments as required.
Supporting Strategic Head office in implementing new accounting standards, or changes made to existing rules, managing the collation of information to understand the organisational impact.
Providing support and guidance to ensure material losses follow the appropriate approvals route.
Ensuring the integrity of data collected for use in the Annual Report and Accounts (ARAc), Estimates and other statutory external reporting processes e.g. NAO reviews and managing:
Monthly reconciliations, providing analysis and challenging transactions, translating into a non-technical format to advise the Budget Holder of their financial position, informing monthly reviews with their FBP.
Engaging with the Business to obtain information to complete returns (e.g. transparency reporting or losses and special payments).
Review of control accounts, to ensure that transactions are legitimate and providing support to Defence Business Services to aid reconciliation, as required.
Continuous improvement
Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures feeding back key proposed changes to process owners, enabling consistency across the MOD finance function.
Seeking feedback on the services provided, testing, and evaluating their effectiveness, whilst assessing the level of effort to deliver against the benefit received.
Continuously strive to improve the service provision, promptly addressing issues and ensuring that processes or ways of working are adapted, and customers are informed where there is an impact.
Managing issues highlighted during internal or external audit, engaging relevant stakeholders to enable corrective action. Promptly addressing any misinterpretation of guidance, sharing with team members to promote embedding the lesson(s) learnt.
Managing the input and support to change programmes, where there is an impact to how your team will provide their services.
Managing your team
Management of team members, empowering, motivating and coaching to enable effective delivery.
Supporting individual’s personal development, careers and developing leadership skills within their team. Ensuring you and the team make time to develop themselves and their peers.
Being open to challenge and new ideas, sharing of knowledge and experience, encouraging others through building a supportive team environment.
Providing stretching targets ensuring the team are getting the basics right at the first attempt.
Developing and embedding the use of standardised processes to deliver a consistent output to customers.
Making all major decisions affecting direction and execution of work within the area of responsibility, referring upwards where decisions relate to significant issues of policy, resource allocation or management of work area.
Providing insight to the Business, Finance Leadership Team, and wider Finance teams
Managing the production, including appropriate review and escalation where necessary of the organisation’s financial accounts, for presentation to the Finance Director for review and approval, highlighting key issues through analysis.
Reviewing, analysing, and interpreting financial data, providing insight for senior managers and decision makers.
Inputting and drafting reports to Audit Committee and other key stakeholders on the key features of the financial accounts and status of key issues and risks.
Routine Requirements
Managing the audit programme, undertaking engagement with Strategic Head Office and/or auditors providing updates on material or complex issues, monitoring progress of audits, outstanding audit issues and implementation of recommendations.
Working with the Financial Governance and Control team to ensure suitable controls / checks are in place, such as compliance with accounting standards and financial policy, to maintain accuracy and identify/escalate issues.
Providing accounting / tax advice, engaging with the Technical Accounting and Tax Centres of Excellence to agree accounting treatments as required.
Supporting Strategic Head office in implementing new accounting standards, or changes made to existing rules, managing the collation of information to understand the organisational impact.
Providing support and guidance to ensure material losses follow the appropriate approvals route.
Ensuring the integrity of data collected for use in the Annual Report and Accounts (ARAc), Estimates and other statutory external reporting processes e.g. NAO reviews and managing:
Monthly reconciliations, providing analysis and challenging transactions, translating into a non-technical format to advise the Budget Holder of their financial position, informing monthly reviews with their FBP.
Engaging with the Business to obtain information to complete returns (e.g. transparency reporting or losses and special payments).
Review of control accounts, to ensure that transactions are legitimate and providing support to Defence Business Services to aid reconciliation, as required.
Continuous improvement
Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures feeding back key proposed changes to process owners, enabling consistency across the MOD finance function.
Seeking feedback on the services provided, testing, and evaluating their effectiveness, whilst assessing the level of effort to deliver against the benefit received.
Continuously strive to improve the service provision, promptly addressing issues and ensuring that processes or ways of working are adapted, and customers are informed where there is an impact.
Managing issues highlighted during internal or external audit, engaging relevant stakeholders to enable corrective action. Promptly addressing any misinterpretation of guidance, sharing with team members to promote embedding the lesson(s) learnt.
Managing the input and support to change programmes, where there is an impact to how your team will provide their services.
Managing your team
Management of team members, empowering, motivating and coaching to enable effective delivery.
Supporting individual’s personal development, careers and developing leadership skills within their team. Ensuring you and the team make time to develop themselves and their peers.
Being open to challenge and new ideas, sharing of knowledge and experience, encouraging others through building a supportive team environment.
Providing stretching targets ensuring the team are getting the basics right at the first attempt.
Developing and embedding the use of standardised processes to deliver a consistent output to customers.
Making all major decisions affecting direction and execution of work within the area of responsibility, referring upwards where decisions relate to significant issues of policy, resource allocation or management of work area.