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Assistant Director Strategic Finance

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Dyddiad hysbysebu: 12 Awst 2025
Cyflog: £72,500 bob blwyddyn
Oriau: Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau: 17 Awst 2025
Lleoliad: Southampton
Cwmni: Government Recruitment Service
Math o swydd: Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd: 419245/1

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Are you an experienced Finance Professional looking for your next challenge?

Do you thrive in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment?

Would you love to be a part of an organisation that makes a real difference to people’s lives every day?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is an Executive Agency of the Department for Transport, providing multiple statutory functions as flag, port and coastal State and delivering international obligations for search and rescue, environmental protection and responding to major maritime incidents. The Finance function is a key enabler for the Agency to ensure we can deliver against this remit.

As part of the Directorate of Finance and Transformation, Strategic Finance is responsible for managing the medium-term financial plans of the Agency and ensuring that its c. £500m total budget is deployed in an efficient and value for money way.

The MCA implements the government’s maritime safety policy in the United Kingdom and works to prevent the loss of life and occurrence of pollution on the coast and at sea.   

Safer lives. Safer Ships. Cleaner Seas.  

Our vision is to be a world-leading organisation, accelerating the transition to sustainable shipping with non-negotiable safety standards. We put our people, our customers and our planet at the heart of everything we do.  

We are committed to giving all our colleagues purpose, professionalism and pride in what we do. We work in supportive, diverse and inclusive teams.

We want everyone to feel valued and supported to achieve their potential at MCA.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our staff networks groups covering, Women’s, LGBTQI+, Race, Carers, Mental Wellbeing, Veterans Network and volunteer Respect Ambassadors.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

  • Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
  • 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
  • Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at Maritime and Coastguard Agency - Department for Transport Careers

Reporting to the Director of Finance and Transformation, this role provides strategic focus and oversight of the MCA finances, ensuring robust budget control is in place and value for money is obtained.

As a key member of the Senior Management Team within the Finance and Transformation Directorate, the role provides effective and inspiring leadership to the Finance Business Partnering and Strategy & Planning teams, fostering a high performing culture through continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

  • Ensure the Agency has a robust Medium-Term Financial Plan, for both Resource and Capital budgets, which is underpinned by a strong understanding of key cost drivers and is aligned to the strategic direction of the organisation.
  • Provide strategic advice and analysis on financial impact, performance and risk to senior stakeholders and, through this, contribute to the strategic direction of wider business areas.
  • Lead the Business Partner team to ensure effective support and advice to the business and effective engagement with other key stakeholders.
  • Build and maintain key relationships with senior stakeholders, in particular developing trust and rapport, to influence and challenge decision making.
  • Effectively manage strategic finance risks, ensuring that issues are identified, actioned, escalated, managed and mitigated as appropriate.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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