Finance Manager

at  Department for Business and Trade

JOB SUMMARY

The Regulation Directorate Support Team provides effective, consistent and value-adding support services to all colleagues in the directorate. We aim to plan activities and organise information in the best ways to support Senior Leadership Team (SLT) decision-making and ensure all colleagues can perform their roles in the most efficient way possible. We help solve problems and focus on continuous improvement to make things work better.
The Finance Manager role within the team is essential for integrating directorate-level financial management processes. It offers a chance to establish consistent, value-adding finance processes and standards, and identify opportunities to improve the quality, accuracy and timeliness of financial management information to support senior decision-making.
The Finance Manager will serve as the directorate’s lead for all financial management processes including the Purchase to Pay (P2P) cycle from requisitions to invoice payment, developing best practice and promoting innovation and continuous improvement in their delivery. This role involves significant stakeholder management: key relationships outside of the Directorate Support Team include Finance Business Partners (FBP); Deputy Directors; and G6 Policy Leads. The role holder would also be part of a developing business management community across the Competitions, Markets and Regulatory Reform (CMRR) Group and wider DBT, leading the provision of financial information to DBT’s central Finance colleagues as part of day-to-day activity and significant fiscal events such as Spending Reviews.
This role reports directly to the G6 Head of Directorate Management and is expected to develop close working relationships with both the FBP for CMRR Group, as well as acting as an integral member of the Directorate Support Team. There are excellent opportunities to contribute to wider team objectives and corporate activities, with full and varied support for personal development aspirations.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Provide finance and business support to groups within the Regulation Directorate
• Lead on all financial processes for the Regulation Directorate. Financial processes include requisitioning, receipting, journals, reconciliations, forecasting and project accounting, as well responding to central finance commissions as part of regular reporting cycles and significant fiscal events
• Be the first point of contact for budget holders, meeting with them regularly to discuss financial processes and ensuring budgets, actuals and forecasts are accurate and evidence-based
• Understand financial management and performance issues, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement of the quality and timeliness of management information to support effective directorate-level decision-making
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders within the Regulation Directorate; the CMRR Group; and across the wider DBT community
• Embedding a value for money culture within the Regulation Directorate, supporting financial decisions through the provision of advice and constructive challenge
• Delivering insightful and timely financial information to budget holders and the Senior Leadership Team

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES & SKILLS

• The successful candidate will be a strong leader who can build highly effective and influential relationships
• They will have a broad skill base with a focus on delivering effective, value-adding financial processes and high-quality, accurate management information through innovative solutions, with a keen eye for detail
• Be able to communicate effectively to inspire your team and stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes
• Demonstrate the confidence, composure and credibility needed to challenge the way activities are delivered
• Recognise change as an opportunity to deliver efficiency and innovation, acting as an agent for change when you identify the chance to protect, drive and add value
• Show the ability and willingness to make difficult decisions (and stand by them)

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

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