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6346 - Digital Finance Manager
| Posting date: | 28 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £41,463 to £52,040 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £41,463 - £45,276, London salary range is £47,657 - £52,040. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6346 |
Summary
Digital Finance Manager
Location: National*
Closing Date: 10 June 2025
Interviews: From 19 June 2025
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £47,657 - £52,040; National: £41,463 - £45,276
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Digital Finance Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team.
The Digital Finance Team, as part of wider Strategy & Operations, works closely with stakeholders from right across Justice Digital, and the Finance and Commercial Professions, to support and assure spending activities across Justice Digital. It strives to deliver a streamlined, effective, and insightful approach to financial decision-making that adds value for delivery teams.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
The Digital Finance Manager will be responsible for:
Improving financial management and governance in D&T.
Building and continually improving financial processes and reports.
Working as part of a great team of Digital Finance Managers and Analysts, managing the Analysts in their area, where applicable.
More specifically this means:
Improving financial management and governance in D&T:
Work with colleagues in your portfolio areas and the finance function to build and inform realistic and well-understood financial forecasts.
Provide meaningful and accurate financial reporting, analysis and insights to help colleagues make well-informed decisions.
Support colleagues in meeting their budgets and savings targets by identifying savings opportunities and anticipating potential overspend.
Work with colleagues to resolve issues relating to budgets, purchase orders and invoices.
Work with colleagues to track financial benefits agreed in business cases and plans.
Promote the benefits of good financial management within D&T.
Creating, delivering and continually improving robust financial processes and reports:
In line with wider D&T strategy, manage the design and development of financial processes for a specific area of D&T including;
Purchase-to-pay process, working with colleagues from finance and commercial functions;
Creating, tracking, managing and closing Purchase Orders.
Working with budget holders and other colleagues to deal with the receipt and the release of payments to third party suppliers.
Communicating with budget holders and third-party suppliers around payment schedules, escalating where appropriate.
Cross-charging to other government departments or business areas, working with colleagues from the finance function;
Build and continually improve financial reports, performance dashboards and scorecards.
Working as part of a great team of Digital Finance Managers and Analysts, managing the analysts in their area:
Recruit, manage and motivate a team of capable Digital Finance Analysts.
Develop individual, and team capabilities, driving great performance, and embedding D&T values and behaviours.
Contribute to setting wider team goals and objectives, ensuring alignment with D&T priorities.
We are looking for someone who:
Has managed and analysed commercial contract spend, complex budgets, preferably IT budgets, and those that involve large amounts of spend with suppliers.
Has built finance processes, reports and dashboards.
Enjoys working with large data sets and solving problems.
Is able to draw conclusions from, and make recommendations based on, numbers and data.
Is comfortable presenting to, and challenging, stakeholders;
Has managed other people.
Enjoys bringing people from different teams or groups together to deliver a common objective.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Location: National*
Closing Date: 10 June 2025
Interviews: From 19 June 2025
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: London: £47,657 - £52,040; National: £41,463 - £45,276
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Digital Finance Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team.
The Digital Finance Team, as part of wider Strategy & Operations, works closely with stakeholders from right across Justice Digital, and the Finance and Commercial Professions, to support and assure spending activities across Justice Digital. It strives to deliver a streamlined, effective, and insightful approach to financial decision-making that adds value for delivery teams.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
The Digital Finance Manager will be responsible for:
Improving financial management and governance in D&T.
Building and continually improving financial processes and reports.
Working as part of a great team of Digital Finance Managers and Analysts, managing the Analysts in their area, where applicable.
More specifically this means:
Improving financial management and governance in D&T:
Work with colleagues in your portfolio areas and the finance function to build and inform realistic and well-understood financial forecasts.
Provide meaningful and accurate financial reporting, analysis and insights to help colleagues make well-informed decisions.
Support colleagues in meeting their budgets and savings targets by identifying savings opportunities and anticipating potential overspend.
Work with colleagues to resolve issues relating to budgets, purchase orders and invoices.
Work with colleagues to track financial benefits agreed in business cases and plans.
Promote the benefits of good financial management within D&T.
Creating, delivering and continually improving robust financial processes and reports:
In line with wider D&T strategy, manage the design and development of financial processes for a specific area of D&T including;
Purchase-to-pay process, working with colleagues from finance and commercial functions;
Creating, tracking, managing and closing Purchase Orders.
Working with budget holders and other colleagues to deal with the receipt and the release of payments to third party suppliers.
Communicating with budget holders and third-party suppliers around payment schedules, escalating where appropriate.
Cross-charging to other government departments or business areas, working with colleagues from the finance function;
Build and continually improve financial reports, performance dashboards and scorecards.
Working as part of a great team of Digital Finance Managers and Analysts, managing the analysts in their area:
Recruit, manage and motivate a team of capable Digital Finance Analysts.
Develop individual, and team capabilities, driving great performance, and embedding D&T values and behaviours.
Contribute to setting wider team goals and objectives, ensuring alignment with D&T priorities.
We are looking for someone who:
Has managed and analysed commercial contract spend, complex budgets, preferably IT budgets, and those that involve large amounts of spend with suppliers.
Has built finance processes, reports and dashboards.
Enjoys working with large data sets and solving problems.
Is able to draw conclusions from, and make recommendations based on, numbers and data.
Is comfortable presenting to, and challenging, stakeholders;
Has managed other people.
Enjoys bringing people from different teams or groups together to deliver a common objective.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!