Permanent Joint Head Quarters - Finance Operations (Euro Atlantic & Arctic Region)
| Posting date: | 15 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £36,530 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | A pension contribution of 28.97% based on the listed salary |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 September 2025 |
| Location: | Northwood, North West London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 419993 |
Summary
Job holder is required to:
Providing guidance to other J branches on preparing strong business cases including value for money assessments and working with the Costing Cell to develop costings for operations, ensuring planning assumptions reflect known actual costs.
Ensuring that appropriate financial and accounting systems and procedures are maintained and are functioning properly.
Contribute to the monthly IYM forecast; ensuring input into TM1 the updated Planning Budgeting and Forecasting (PB&F) system meets with the monthly timetable; is robust and that variances over 5% are explained.
Review and advise on risks identified as part of the forecast process ensuring that they are relevant and are adjusted to reflect changes as appropriate.
Liaise with the deployed Finance Team to obtain necessary information to enable production of an accurate forecast outturn each month.
Reporting and briefing of financial information to internal/external stakeholders and ensuring the forecast is evidence based and all assumptions and dependencies are recorded, providing a robust audit trail.
Gather initial evidence for fraud investigations and investigate anomalies.
Ensure that proper records are kept and that a clear audit trail, including financial appraisals, is maintained for all decisions.
Ensuring compliance with MoD and PJHQ Fin Ops specific assurance and governance controls.
Provide regular finance briefs to the EA2 monthly briefing day and other finance briefing days as required.
Assess spend proposals against expenditure plans to ensure that unplanned spend can be accommodated within allocated limits of liability
Undertake learning and development and upskilling as required and undertake line management, mentoring and countersigning tasks as required by the role. This role has 1 direct report.
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will
need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.
Providing guidance to other J branches on preparing strong business cases including value for money assessments and working with the Costing Cell to develop costings for operations, ensuring planning assumptions reflect known actual costs.
Ensuring that appropriate financial and accounting systems and procedures are maintained and are functioning properly.
Contribute to the monthly IYM forecast; ensuring input into TM1 the updated Planning Budgeting and Forecasting (PB&F) system meets with the monthly timetable; is robust and that variances over 5% are explained.
Review and advise on risks identified as part of the forecast process ensuring that they are relevant and are adjusted to reflect changes as appropriate.
Liaise with the deployed Finance Team to obtain necessary information to enable production of an accurate forecast outturn each month.
Reporting and briefing of financial information to internal/external stakeholders and ensuring the forecast is evidence based and all assumptions and dependencies are recorded, providing a robust audit trail.
Gather initial evidence for fraud investigations and investigate anomalies.
Ensure that proper records are kept and that a clear audit trail, including financial appraisals, is maintained for all decisions.
Ensuring compliance with MoD and PJHQ Fin Ops specific assurance and governance controls.
Provide regular finance briefs to the EA2 monthly briefing day and other finance briefing days as required.
Assess spend proposals against expenditure plans to ensure that unplanned spend can be accommodated within allocated limits of liability
Undertake learning and development and upskilling as required and undertake line management, mentoring and countersigning tasks as required by the role. This role has 1 direct report.
Please note, candidates will be redirected to the Civil Service Jobs website where you will
need to submit your application form. Please note the closing date above is incorrect and cannot be amended so please check the closing date on Civil Service Jobs and allow enough time to submit your application form.