JOB SUMMARY

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Finance Systems and Process Analyst
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Financial Accreditation Team (FA Team).
You will work in a fast-paced project environment, building relationships, and providing specialist financial advice and support to assist in driving forward effective transformation of HMRC’s finance systems and processes. You will specify finance requirements for change initiatives and ensure they are delivered.
This will allow HMRC to account for, receive and pay out money in accordance with strategy and Accounting Standards. This role gives an outstanding opportunity to develop key leadership, assurance and collaboration skills.
About Risk, Control & Financial Accountant (RFCA)
RFCA fulfils a vital role at the heart of HMRC. We are responsible for ensuring that HMRC plans and manages its performance, makes good decisions, and is held to account on accurate financial and performance data. Our activity helps HMRC account excellently for everything HMRC does!
Our vacancy sits in the Financial Accreditation (FA) Team, which forms part of Finance Systems and Processes in RCFA. Our team plays a key role in HMRC Transformation by ensuring excellent financial management and control throughout the HMRC Change process by accrediting changes to financial systems and processes.
Providing an excellent prospect to work collaboratively across HMRC with change teams; you will work closely with colleagues and stakeholders to ensure that we design the systems and processes to support the delivery of change through key milestones by effectively managing risks, caveats, High Level requirements and produce monthly progress reports through development and production of KPI’s along with looking at ways of innovating our process.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our exciting and interesting role would suit anyone who wants to work in a fast-paced Finance, Project working or design environment.
You will join a welcoming and accomplished team of accreditors, who have a wide knowledge of tax and finance accounting systems and processes.
Successful candidates will undertake a bespoke training programme enabling you to:
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Represent corporate finance in a project change environment, introducing and driving forward our requirements.
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Influencing the financial accreditation process as the team adapts to the pace of HMRC Change and the way we deliver Financial Accreditation.
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Develop the skills needed to build co-operative partnerships with project and programs teams to ensure Finance requirements are understood and developed.
Critically you’ll then be assuring the subsequent changes made to ensure that they align with internal and external standards.
We do this throughout the project lifecycle process, providing accreditation and assurance for changes to HMRCs financial systems and processes.
Note: This is not an accounts production or budget holder role
We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us, and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

• You will be asked to provide a 5 to 10-minute presentation on the topic: • Your skills and experience, and how you will add value to this position.

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)
• 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

A name-blind CV covering your last 3 roles only, your CV should show your employment, dates and any key achievements which in the role (Max 500 words total).

• A 750-word personal statement. Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the essential criteria and person specification outlined in the advert