DNE Finance In-Year Management Lead

£61,630

(per annum, pro-rata), London locations may attract an allowance of £3,300 per annum.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Alongside your salary of £61,630, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,854 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

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• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

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Open to UK nationals only.

This is a highly visible and influential role, offering regular exposure to the Defence Nuclear Enterprise's senior leadership and boards. You will be working to shape financial strategy, influence key organisational decisions, and strengthen financial performance for a £14bn per annum complex portfolio of spend.

Day-to-day, you will lead the consolidation and interpretation of in-year financial information from across the Defence Nuclear Enterprise, giving senior leaders a robust, accurate and timely view of the in-year forecast, performance against budget, emerging pressures, opportunities, and actions required to maintain affordability and delivery - getting the basics right whilst staying focused on key strategic issues.

You will be leading team of eight finance and analytical professionals at various stages of their career, and be part of creating an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing environment. Your key stakeholder relationships will include working closely with finance business partners, financial planning and accounting teams, and senior finance and programme stakeholders across the MOD and our partner organisations, to build confidence in the quality of the numbers, strengthening reporting standards and processes, and translating complex data into a coherent enterprise-level narrative.

This is a stretching and high-performance Grade 7 role within a wider central finance team, where you will lead the production, assurance and strategic narrative for the Defence Nuclear Enterprise's in-year financial reporting. Our £14bn per annum portfolio of spend spans various areas of the MOD and includes several large infrastructure programmes within the Government Major Projects Portfolio.

• In-year consolidation: Ensuring the Defence Nuclear Enterprise's monthly in-year forecasts, actuals, budgets, risks and choices are accurately reported on corporate systems, taut and complete, and supported by clear evidence, applying constructive challenge where assumptions, data quality or delivery plans require further scrutiny.
• Providing insight: Interpreting complex financial information (often at short turnaround timescales in a nuanced political and delivery environment) to identify trends and dependencies.
• Drawing out the real-world "so what" to give insightful, concise and persuasive analysis for senior boards and leaders on a monthly basis, all the way to the Accounting Officer, Ministers and Boards - communicating clearly and with purpose whether the medium be a slide deck, Word document, or on a spread sheet.
• Coordinating regular and ad-hoc returns on the financial position for the Departmental centre, HM Treasury, and senior DNE stakeholders, including drafting Accounting Officer advice, and responses to Parliamentary Questions and Freedom of Information requests where required.
• Effective stakeholder engagement: Working across organisational boundaries to build effective relationships with the Department's centre, finance business partners, arms-length bodies, and colleagues across strategy, commercial and HR teams, aligning reporting approaches and ensuring deadlines and quality standards are consistently met.
• Continuous improvement: Driving continuous improvement and getting the basics right across your team and the wider organisation.
• Improving how management information is produced and used, you will ensure recurring reports, dashboards and templates are clear, standardised and focused on stakeholder and user needs.
• Acting as a key stakeholder for Department-wide systems and organisational change initiatives, you will champion automation, self-service reporting and digital dashboards, seek feedback and address any issues identified.
• Managing your team: You will line-manage, coach and develop team members, allocate resources flexibly, set stretching expectations and create an environment in which people can create an inclusive and friendly culture, stay curious and safely challenge existing ways of working, and support each other to exceed and deliver at pace.

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

Hybrid and flexible working can be considered for this post. Successful candidates are encouraged to discuss options with the recruiting line manager before starting the role.

This post is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and working from home as part of a non-contractual hybrid working arrangement. All office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to site capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD workplace, will also count towards this level of office attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this and other flexible working arrangements may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.

488174

Grade 7

B2

Permanent

1

MOD Main Building:Whitehall, London SW1A 2HB, MOD Abbey Wood:Bristol BS34 8JH,

As the post holder will have access to very sensitive information, there are limitations on travelling to a small number of countries and we will undertake additional security checks as part of the recruitment process. Applications from candidates with close connections to certain countries may take considerably longer to process, or in some cases result in a withdrawal of an offer of employment. Further details will be provided at the conditional offer stage.

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Seeing the Big Picture

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• Name : DNO External Recruitment Team
• Email : DNO-ExternalRecruiting@mod.gov.uk

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