Management Reporting - ABC Manager
| Posting date: | 31 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £44,590 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Location: | HA6 3HP, SW1A 2HB |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 423289 |
Summary
Management Reporting are expected to produce the monthly financial reports to meet their business area(s) and Finance Business Partner’s needs. 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
· Providing the consolidated financial position at various levels within the organisation. Utilising information obtained from Finance Business Partner reviews to provide a draft of commentary, subject to the relevant endorsement.
· Producing standardised reports / dashboards for monthly financial reviews and ABC screenings along with supplementary information to the FBP and FLT as appropriate.
Optimising Performance
· Enabling self service capabilities where possible, allowing individuals access to information without any intervention.
· Although team members may support specific Business area(s), all team members will be expected to be flexible and cover Business areas as required.
Routine Requirements
· Producing instructions for completion of both IYM and ABC, outlining agreed internal timelines for completion taking into account Strategic Head Office requirements.
· Delivering the required information ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and meet the expected standards for:
o Month end activities, ensuring your team utilise the correct accounting entries completed in compliance with relevant internal and wider government policy and a robust audit trail maintained.
o Input of budget profiles into corporate reporting systems, validating these are sufficiently robust to form the baseline for future progress measurement.
o Corporate system input is consistently delivered for your business area(s) for all aspects of ABC and IYM.
o Producing standardised templates / forms for recurring requests, advising what information is required and enabling efficient review, ensuring this aligns to the required policy where applicable.
Financial approvals of low value items, such as working functions, training, and professional subscriptions, supporting your team as required. Ensuring compliance with the relevant processes and policies and that an appropriate procurement route is utilised.
· Engaging with the Business where evidence for manual accruals is insufficient and flagging issues, by exception, to the appropriate Finance Business Partner.
· Ensuring all misbookings are to be corrected at source, removing any need for future manual intervention. Engaging with Project and Commercial staff to resolve any issues and work towards a right first-time input.
· Establishing and ensuring effective controls are in place to maintain accuracy of data in financial systems and provide assurance on integrity of information on financial systems
· Reviewing the Chart of Accounts, liaising with other parts of Finance to understand emerging requirements. Ensuring the structure remains current and consistent, verifying new requirements as legitimate.
· Managing your team to maintain corporate systems access for all Finance Staff.
Continuous improvement
· Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures.
· Seeking feedback on the services provided, and continuously striving to improve the service provision. Promptly address any key issues that arise ensuring that processes or ways of working are adapted accordingly, 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.
Delivering your area of responsibility
· Management of team members, empowering, motivating and coaching to enable effective delivery.
· Supporting individual’s personal development and careers, 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.
· 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.
· Exercising sound judgement and interpretative ability, and application of innovative thought to derive novel solutions.
Seeking advice, referring upwards as required, where problems are particularly complex or have wider implications.
Providing insight to the Business, Finance Leadership Team, and wider Finance teams
· Providing the consolidated financial position at various levels within the organisation. Utilising information obtained from Finance Business Partner reviews to provide a draft of commentary, subject to the relevant endorsement.
· Producing standardised reports / dashboards for monthly financial reviews and ABC screenings along with supplementary information to the FBP and FLT as appropriate.
Optimising Performance
· Enabling self service capabilities where possible, allowing individuals access to information without any intervention.
· Although team members may support specific Business area(s), all team members will be expected to be flexible and cover Business areas as required.
Routine Requirements
· Producing instructions for completion of both IYM and ABC, outlining agreed internal timelines for completion taking into account Strategic Head Office requirements.
· Delivering the required information ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and meet the expected standards for:
o Month end activities, ensuring your team utilise the correct accounting entries completed in compliance with relevant internal and wider government policy and a robust audit trail maintained.
o Input of budget profiles into corporate reporting systems, validating these are sufficiently robust to form the baseline for future progress measurement.
o Corporate system input is consistently delivered for your business area(s) for all aspects of ABC and IYM.
o Producing standardised templates / forms for recurring requests, advising what information is required and enabling efficient review, ensuring this aligns to the required policy where applicable.
Financial approvals of low value items, such as working functions, training, and professional subscriptions, supporting your team as required. Ensuring compliance with the relevant processes and policies and that an appropriate procurement route is utilised.
· Engaging with the Business where evidence for manual accruals is insufficient and flagging issues, by exception, to the appropriate Finance Business Partner.
· Ensuring all misbookings are to be corrected at source, removing any need for future manual intervention. Engaging with Project and Commercial staff to resolve any issues and work towards a right first-time input.
· Establishing and ensuring effective controls are in place to maintain accuracy of data in financial systems and provide assurance on integrity of information on financial systems
· Reviewing the Chart of Accounts, liaising with other parts of Finance to understand emerging requirements. Ensuring the structure remains current and consistent, verifying new requirements as legitimate.
· Managing your team to maintain corporate systems access for all Finance Staff.
Continuous improvement
· Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures.
· Seeking feedback on the services provided, and continuously striving to improve the service provision. Promptly address any key issues that arise ensuring that processes or ways of working are adapted accordingly, 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.
Delivering your area of responsibility
· Management of team members, empowering, motivating and coaching to enable effective delivery.
· Supporting individual’s personal development and careers, 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.
· 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.
· Exercising sound judgement and interpretative ability, and application of innovative thought to derive novel solutions.
Seeking advice, referring upwards as required, where problems are particularly complex or have wider implications.