Government Legal Department Looking for Assistant Director, Strategic Finance, Risk and Reporting. at Croydon, Southland, New Zealand Full Time

Location

Bristol, Croydon, Leeds, London, Manchester

About The Job

Job summary

The Assistant Director, Strategic Finance, Risk and Reporting will report directly to the Finance Director.

Job Description

The position has five direct reports and will involve significant liaison with and support to Board members and senior leaders within GLD.

Key tasks are to:

• Lead and manage the Strategic Finance, Performance and Reporting team in providing a high-quality service including ensuring that the team is appropriately resourced, structured and developed;
• Lead the development and implementation of GLD’s Finance Strategy including ownership and delivery of GLD’s fee model and leadership and line management of the Finance Business Partners
• Lead the development of GLD’s approach to risk management, ensure that the risk management framework operates effectively and provide risk reporting and support to the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, the Board and the Executive Committee.
• Lead the development and provision of performance reporting, with associated analysis and insight, to the Board and its sub-committees.
• Lead and support the development, provision and use of management information throughout the organisation including the extraction, analysis and reporting of information to the senior leaders, clients, central government and other stakeholders
• Lead the financial assessment of business cases and support and advise the Investment Portfolio and Change Committee on those aspects;
• Provision of input to the Annual Report and Accounts for the Performance Report and the Accountability Report (the Governance Statement)
• Lead the delivery and the support the development of the annual Client Satisfaction Survey (one of GLD’s key performance measures)
• Ensure GLD meets its Statutory, Parliamentary and Central Government obligations for financial matters through delivery of central government requirements on transparency.

The post holder will also contribute to financial initiatives across the Department.

Person specification

Below are details of the Success Profile that make up this role.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the interview stage:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making effective decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Essential criteria

• Qualified CCAB or CIMA Accountant.
• Critical strategic thinking, including the ability to use evidence, appraise options and work with senior stakeholders to develop our finance strategy and, implement and improve our fee model, performance reporting, risk management and the use of management information.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills and authority, and an ability to successfully foster and manage relationships between own team and other areas and communicate with senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Good understanding of risk management

Desirable criteria

• Experience of developing risk management in a public sector setting.

Qualifications

Qualified CCAB or CIMA Accountant

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £65,154, Government Legal Department contributes £17,591 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

It is important through your CV and Statement of Suitability (no more than 1250 words) that you provide evidence and examples of proven experience against the essential criteria above.

To apply for this post, you will need to complete the online application process accessed via the advertisement listed for this role. This should be completed no later than Monday 23rd October 2023 and will involve uploading the documents outlined below:

• CV (no more than 2 sides of A4).
• Statement of suitability against the ‘person specification’ (no more than 1250 wordcount)

Failure to submit all documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality Requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Apply and further information

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The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window) .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Tim Hurdle
• Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]