Navy Command Desk Officer
| Posting date: | 13 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £29,580 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2025 |
| Location: | PO2 8BY |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 419517 |
Summary
The Management Reporting Desk Officer is responsible for important month end activities, analysis of the ledger to understand the financial position and supporting the team to produce financial reports. Ensuring that financial reporting is accurately completed both within corporate reporting systems and for input of accounting entries to support decision making. Typical responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Providing insight to the Business, Finance Leadership Team, and wider Finance teams
Inputting into standardised reports / dashboards for monthly financial reviews and Annual Budget Cycle (ABC) screenings along with supplementary information to the FBP as appropriate.
Although team members may support specific Business area(s), all team members will be expected to be flexible and cover other Business areas as required.
[Finance Business Partnering] Providing constructive challenge, scrutiny, insight, and analysis
Being involved at the start, reviewing, and providing input to business cases, investment appraisal and other strategic documentation, identifying and highlighting any potential issues.
Providing advice on compliance with policy, standards, accountabilities, and controls
Undertaking scrutiny of business cases valued up to £1m ensuring that cases provide value for money, consider the wider corporate impact (e.g. legal, commercial), through-life implications and that a robust risk assessment is undertaken.
Routine Requirements
Ensuring all required information is provided, outputs are accurate, timely and meet the expected standards for:
Month end activities, ensuring you and your staff use the correct accounting entries completed in compliance with relevant internal and wider government policy and a robust audit trail maintained.
Monitoring and, where appropriate, approving invoices, engaging with commercial and suppliers when required to resolve issues.
Undertaking the input of budget profiles into corporate reporting systems, forming the baseline for future progress measurement.
Undertake critical analysis of financial systems to ensure the data is accurate and up to date in order to facilitate input being consistently achieved for your business area(s) for all aspects of ABC and In Year Management (IYM).
Utilising standardised templates / forms for recurring requests, advising what information is required and ensuring this aligns to the required policy where applicable.
Undertaking financial approvals of low value items, such as working functions, training, and professional subscriptions and supporting your team as required. Ensuring compliance with the relevant processes and policies and that an appropriate procurement route is utilised
Undertaking more complex financial approvals up to £1m
Engaging with the Business, where evidence for manual accruals is insufficient, and flagging issues to the appropriate Finance Business Partner
Continuous improvement
Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures.
Acting upon feedback on the services provided, and continuously strive to improve the service provision.
Supporting addressing issues highlighted during internal or external audit, engaging relevant stakeholders to enable corrective action. Sharing the correct guidance with team members to promote embedding the lesson(s) learnt.
Fulfilling your area of responsibility
Ensure you make time to develop yourself.
Encouraging being open to challenge and new ideas, building a supportive team environment and encouraging sharing of knowledge and experience.
Striving for you and the team are getting the basics right at the first attempt.
Embedding the use of standardised processes to deliver a consistent output to customers.
Taking decisions on day-to-day operation of your area(s) of responsibility, including allocation of work and methods used.
Comprehensive training relevant to the role will be provided in addition to the mandatory Civil Service/MoD training.
Providing insight to the Business, Finance Leadership Team, and wider Finance teams
Inputting into standardised reports / dashboards for monthly financial reviews and Annual Budget Cycle (ABC) screenings along with supplementary information to the FBP as appropriate.
Although team members may support specific Business area(s), all team members will be expected to be flexible and cover other Business areas as required.
[Finance Business Partnering] Providing constructive challenge, scrutiny, insight, and analysis
Being involved at the start, reviewing, and providing input to business cases, investment appraisal and other strategic documentation, identifying and highlighting any potential issues.
Providing advice on compliance with policy, standards, accountabilities, and controls
Undertaking scrutiny of business cases valued up to £1m ensuring that cases provide value for money, consider the wider corporate impact (e.g. legal, commercial), through-life implications and that a robust risk assessment is undertaken.
Routine Requirements
Ensuring all required information is provided, outputs are accurate, timely and meet the expected standards for:
Month end activities, ensuring you and your staff use the correct accounting entries completed in compliance with relevant internal and wider government policy and a robust audit trail maintained.
Monitoring and, where appropriate, approving invoices, engaging with commercial and suppliers when required to resolve issues.
Undertaking the input of budget profiles into corporate reporting systems, forming the baseline for future progress measurement.
Undertake critical analysis of financial systems to ensure the data is accurate and up to date in order to facilitate input being consistently achieved for your business area(s) for all aspects of ABC and In Year Management (IYM).
Utilising standardised templates / forms for recurring requests, advising what information is required and ensuring this aligns to the required policy where applicable.
Undertaking financial approvals of low value items, such as working functions, training, and professional subscriptions and supporting your team as required. Ensuring compliance with the relevant processes and policies and that an appropriate procurement route is utilised
Undertaking more complex financial approvals up to £1m
Engaging with the Business, where evidence for manual accruals is insufficient, and flagging issues to the appropriate Finance Business Partner
Continuous improvement
Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures.
Acting upon feedback on the services provided, and continuously strive to improve the service provision.
Supporting addressing issues highlighted during internal or external audit, engaging relevant stakeholders to enable corrective action. Sharing the correct guidance with team members to promote embedding the lesson(s) learnt.
Fulfilling your area of responsibility
Ensure you make time to develop yourself.
Encouraging being open to challenge and new ideas, building a supportive team environment and encouraging sharing of knowledge and experience.
Striving for you and the team are getting the basics right at the first attempt.
Embedding the use of standardised processes to deliver a consistent output to customers.
Taking decisions on day-to-day operation of your area(s) of responsibility, including allocation of work and methods used.
Comprehensive training relevant to the role will be provided in addition to the mandatory Civil Service/MoD training.