SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

(S) – Assessed at shortlisting
(I) – Assessed at interview
(S&I) – Assessed at both shortlisting and interview

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

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The post holder will be responsible for leading work to enhance the use of financial data and systems, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Finance function and financial planning and management across UKRI.
UKRI are in the process of moving from an on-premise Oracle ERP to cloud-based Oracle Fusion, and will be using new EPM functionality. At the same time we have recently scaled up use of our new grants management tool, TFS. This exciting role will prioritise and shape the transformational work to optimize our processes, identify continuous improvements to systems, and maximise value from our data and reporting across our various systems, bringing in colleagues from across finance.
Responsibilities include providing finance data stewardship, harmonizing and optimizing processes, expanding data analytics capabilities, and delivering reporting improvements for end users and finance teams.
In the longer term, once our transition is complete, we envisage the role will continue to drive continuous improvement in our use of data and reporting, with a growing focus on the interface between finance and business users.
This is a new role and the post holder will have a unique opportunity to shape its scope and deliverables, as well as the resource requirements for a finance data team, in discussion with the line manager, Head of Strategic Financial Planning, and Finance Director.