Strategic Finance Lead
| Posting date: | 02 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £43,800 to £51,470 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43,800 - £49,090 (National) / £45,600 - £51,470 (London) + £3,150 RRA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Crown Prosecution Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Your roles and responsibilities
Review cross-government policy proposals to assess and manage financial implications for CPS.
Represent CPS corporately at external meetings, including One HMG, advocating a joined-up approach, and managing CPS’s contractual interests.
Build effective relationships with other government departments and CPS functional leads to ensure cost-effective achievement of corporate objectives.
Champion effective strategic decision-making and risk management to ensure strong financial performance across business as usual, projects, and programmes.
Deliver high service standards in Investment Appraisal, evaluating financial implications of projects and programmes for CPS as a whole and highlighting risk.
Assess affordability and value for money of new policy measures, ensuring financial impacts inform decisions under tight deadlines.
Ensure financial and economic cases for endorsement are comprehensive, reflect lifecycle costs, align with strategic priorities, and are affordable.
Review cross-government policy proposals to assess and manage financial implications for CPS.
Represent CPS corporately at external meetings, including One HMG, advocating a joined-up approach, and managing CPS’s contractual interests.
Build effective relationships with other government departments and CPS functional leads to ensure cost-effective achievement of corporate objectives.
Champion effective strategic decision-making and risk management to ensure strong financial performance across business as usual, projects, and programmes.
Deliver high service standards in Investment Appraisal, evaluating financial implications of projects and programmes for CPS as a whole and highlighting risk.
Assess affordability and value for money of new policy measures, ensuring financial impacts inform decisions under tight deadlines.
Ensure financial and economic cases for endorsement are comprehensive, reflect lifecycle costs, align with strategic priorities, and are affordable.