30809 - Financial Planning Lead

£30,989 - £52,248 (salary dependent on location)
3
12 Months
London, National
London, National
102 PETTY FRANCE (MOJ) LONDON, SW1H 9AJ, 10 SOUTH COLONNADE LONDON, E14 4PU
SEO
B, Bb
Permanent
Full Time, Flexible Working
Finance

Financial qualification is preferable but not essential

Job role will require travel to London

Job description  

Job Description – Financial Planning Lead

MoJ Group Finance is looking to recruit high calibre individuals as Strategic Financial Planning Managers.

MoJ Group Finance focuses on ensuring the department lives within its financial settlement from the 2019 Spending Round while delivering an ambitious and challenging reform agenda; including the Secretary of State’s reform priorities, including the high-profile reforms in prisons and courts.

The Finance Strategy & Planning Team is responsible for setting the MoJ’s financial strategy and financial plan, advising on the financial implications of policy and reform programmes, working closely with teams across the MoJ and HM Treasury. To support this work, we operate a multi-disciplinary approach in which team members have policy, finance and/or strategy experience.

You will need to be highly numerate with strong policy and strategy skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts and proposals clearly and succinctly to colleagues, senior officials and Ministers, through quickly developing a good understanding of the department’s priorities, its policies and its operations. This is a fast paced and challenging role and you should be organised with the ability to manage conflicting demands effectively, learn quickly, work autonomously and also within a team exercising sound judgement while taking the initiative. The post holder will be required to establish and maintain relationships, particularly with HM Treasury, MoJ, HMCTS or HMPPS business groups and work collaboratively with policy teams across MoJ as well as our analytical teams. A financial qualification would be beneficial. This is an excellent opportunity for non-finance professionals to gain finance experience and for finance professionals to gain policy and strategy experience.

Responsibilities:

  • Managing, on behalf of the team, the relationship with business groups across the MoJ including developing a sound knowledge of how the business group operates, its key objectives and challenges and supporting the business group to resolve any financial issues.
  • Leading for Corporate Finance on key strands of cross departmental work that will feed into the overall financial strategy for the MoJ or may have a downstream financial, operational or policy impact.
  • Support the department’s yearly financial allocations process by leading on the development of the department’s medium term financial plan and working collaboratively with business groups.
  • Supporting the development and delivery of options for the Spending Review in 2020, working with business leads across the department and interacting with Other Government Departments to ensure these align to ministerial priorities.
  • Direct involvement in planning, through to preparing financial and performance reporting information for HMT review meetings.
  • Responding to HMT requests appropriately and in a timely manner, thereby helping to build credibility on behalf of the team.
  • Providing high quality, accurate advice to ministers and senior leaders on the financial implications of policy proposals or proposals that change key assumptions underpinning the strategic financial plan. This will include analysing, quality assuring and challenging plans and proposals submitted by business groups.
  • Reviewing cross-government policy proposals, including clearance requests and Cabinet Committee papers, to ensure that the financial implications are understood and managed appropriately.
  • Create models and scenarios to support decision making.
  • Confidently manipulate and present data using charts and tables.
  • Line management and/or task management of team members.
  • The post-holder will be expected to work flexibly within the team and be willing to take on additional responsibilities where necessary.

Skills & Qualifications

You will be required to provide evidence of the following behaviours.

Delivering at Pace (Main behaviour)

  • Show a positive approach to keeping the whole team’s efforts focused on the top priorities.
  • Promote a culture of following the appropriate procedures to ensure results are achieved on time whilst still enabling innovation
  • Ensure the most appropriate resources are available for colleagues to use to do their job effectively.
  • Act promptly to reassess workloads and priorities when there are conflicting demands to maintain performance.
  • Allow individuals the space and authority to meet objectives, providing additional support where necessary, whilst keeping overall responsibility.

Seeing the Big Picture

  • Be alert to emerging issues and trends which might impact or benefit own and team’s work
  • Align activities to contribute to wider organisational priorities.
  • Understand how the strategies and activities of the team create value and meet the diverse needs of all stakeholders.

Making Effective Decisions

  • Understand own level of responsibility and empower others to make decisions where appropriate
  • Analyse and use a range of relevant, credible information from internal and external sources to support decisions
  • Invite challenge and where appropriate involve others in decision making.
  • Consult with others to ensure the potential impacts on end users have been considered
  • Present strong recommendations in a timely manner outlining the consideration of other options, costs, benefits and risks.

Communicating and Influencing

  • Communicate in a straightforward, honest and engaging manner, choosing appropriate styles to maximise understanding and impact
  • Encourage the use of different communication methods, including digital resources and highlight the benefits, including ensuring cost effectiveness.
  • Ensure communication has a clear purpose and takes into account people’s individual needs.
  • Share information as appropriate and check understanding.

Leadership

  • Ensure colleagues and stakeholders have a clear understanding of objectives, activities and time-frames.
  • Take into account different individual needs, views, and ideas, championing inclusion and equality of opportunity for all
  • Consider the impacts of own and team’s activities on stakeholders and end users
  • Effectively manage conflict, misconduct and non-inclusive behaviour, raising with senior managers where appropriate.
Part-qualified and qualified accountants may be eligible for an allowance

Working Arrangements & Further Information


Some of MoJ’s terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.


Flexible working hours


The Ministry of Justice offers a flexible working system in many offices.


Benefits


The MoJ offers a range of benefits:


Annual Leave


Generous allowances for paid holiday starting at 25 days per year, and rising as your service increases. There is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.


Pension


The Civil Service offers a choice of pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.


Training


The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.


Support


  • A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
  • Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits,retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
  • For any moves across the Civil Service may have implications on your ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers
  • Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
  • Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.

Networks


The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.


Working for the Civil Service


The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.


We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.


The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity.


There is a guaranteed interview scheme (GIS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

 

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10/12/2019, 23:55 hours.

If you require any assistance please call 0845 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@sscl.gse.gov.uk Please quote the job reference - 30809




To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why. 

For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).

If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:

  • You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
  • You were studying abroad
  • You were living overseas with parents

In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.

Success Profiles will enable a fairer and more inclusive method of recruitment by enabling us to assess the range of experiences, abilities, strengths, behaviours and technical/professional skills required for different roles. This flexible approach to recruitment focuses more on finding the right candidate for the specific role. To find out more about Success Profiles to support your application please click here for further guidance.

if you feel that your application has not been treated in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance

We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.


Application form stage assessments

Behaviours
Delivering at Pace - word limit
Seeing the Big Picture - word limit
Making Effective Decisions - word limit
Communicating and Influencing - word limit
Leadership - word limit
Experience
Statement of Suitability - 1000 word limit

Interview stage assessments

There is 1 interview stage for this vacancy.
Behaviours
Delivering at Pace
Seeing the Big Picture
Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing
Leadership
Additional Assessment(s)
Presentation

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

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) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families

· 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) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules

This Vacancy is closed to applications.