Programme Delivery Manager - Finance

at  Government Digital Service

JOB SUMMARY

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is part of the Cabinet Office. We’re here to make digital government simpler, clearer and faster for everyone. Our work is user-focused, dynamic and forward-looking, making our organisation an exciting and innovative place to work.
The GOV.UK One Login for Government Programme represents a once in a generation opportunity to simplify and widen access to all digital government services. Sitting at the heart of the government, we are building one simple, safe and secure way for users to log in and prove who they are that will work across all government services.
GOV.UK One Login is being designed and built for the many, not the few. It will unite services across government, revolutionising the way government departments digitally interact with users. One Login will deliver an accessible and essential function that will change lives and help millions. We are an ambitious and visionary team so if you want to be at the heart of this truly groundbreaking programme keep reading…
The GOV.UK One Login programme is full of talented and passionate people who are consistently delivering high quality products for services and individuals. We’re halfway through our build phase and features are being shipped almost weekly as we work to mature our product set so that we can expand the range of services and departments benefitting from our work.
Sometimes described as the most strategic programme in government, GOV.UK One Login represents a once in a career opportunity to work on delivering a product that will be used by the majority of the people living in the UK. It’s a fast paced, dynamic and challenging environment that is sure to offer you career satisfaction as well as a chance to develop and enhance your skills.
If you are someone who has strong leadership skills and experience, is adaptable, resilient, and can effectively operate at a senior level then we’d like to hear from you.
Find out more at the GDS Blog.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Finance Manager you’ll:

• lead financial planning for GDS linked to the wider Cabinet Office process, working with the team and wider stakeholders to prepare affordable and credible budgets. Identify areas of financial risk and opportunity associated with budgets
• analyse and lead the corporate reporting to ensure accurate actuals and forecasts are provided on a monthly basis. This will include working with colleagues to build your understanding of the business and developing appropriate management information and analysis to test robustness and communicate financial results across GDS
• provide financial advice to stakeholders, identifying areas of financial risk or opportunities and providing credible options for mitigating them
• develop the Digital Identity financial management processes, working with the business and CO finance colleagues to enable the first line of compliance with all relevant controls. The post holder will be required to work across a wide range of stakeholders, to improve understanding and build capability
• quality assure GDS products (e.g submissions, business cases, contract renewals/new procurements) that have financial consequences within required timescales so that any required changes can be incorporated into the final products
• be an inspirational leader and lead a small team of finance and business operations colleagues to deliver the above at pace

WHILST WE VALUE THE USE OF AI TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE OUR DAILY WORK, WE ALSO VALUE THE PERSONAL TOUCH AND URGE APPLICANTS TO WRITE COVER LETTERS WITHOUT THE USE OF AI TO EMPHASISE THEIR OWN UNIQUE EXPERIENCES.

Please note that this role requires SC clearance, which would normally need 5 years’ UK residency in the past 5 years. This is not an absolute requirement, but supplementary checks may be needed where individuals have not lived in the UK for that period. This may mean your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible.
For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers.
In the Civil Service, we use Success Profiles to evaluate your skills and ability. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, increases performance and improves diversity and inclusivity. We’ll be assessing your technical abilities, skills, experience and behaviours that are relevant to this role.

For this role we’ll be assessing you against the following Civil Service Behaviours:

• changing and improving
• making effective decisions
• seeing the bigger picture
• managing a quality service
• delivering at pace

We’ll also be assessing your experience and specialist technical skills against the following skills defined in the Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework for the Delivery manager role:

• agile and lean practices
• communicating between the technical and non-technical
• financial management
• planning
• making a process work

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)

The standard selection process for roles at GDS consists of:

• a simple application screening process - We only ask for a CV and cover letter of up to 500 words. Important tip - please ensure that your cover letter includes how you meet the skills and experience listed in the “person specification” section above
• a 60 minute video intervie

For this role we’ll be assessing you against the following Civil Service Behaviours:

• changing and improving
• making effective decisions
• seeing the bigger picture
• managing a quality service
• delivering at pac

We’ll also be assessing your experience and specialist technical skills against the following skills defined in the Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework for the Delivery manager role:

• agile and lean practices
• communicating between the technical and non-technical
• financial management
• planning
• making a process wor