Head of Finance

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the finance team, providing strategic steer and building capability
• Finance Business Partner and Strategic Finance functions
• Lead on the production of the finance section of the business case, including inputting into the benefits case, identifying finance and governance implications of commercial products, and ensuring a close working relationship with other work streams.
• Assessing accounting implications in accordance with international financial reporting standards and central government accounting rules.
• Engaging across the Matrix community to build support for PBC3, understanding and addressing any challenges arising.
• Support on the production of AO advice and assessments
• Overseeing the implementation and administration of protocols/processes/controls for the Matrix programmes financial management, aligning it to DSIT financial management standards.
• Oversee the month end management accounts process co-ordinating inputs across the 9 Departments.
• Build and maintain successful partnerships with Department Leads and their Finance Functions across the Matrix cluster.
• Create and maintain credibility with senior stakeholders, presenting at Executive Team level, leading the conversation, and influencing decision making.

Qualification & Requirements

Essential criteria

• Leading the team by setting clear direction, empowering, inspiring and motivating team members
• Experience of operating in a changing, uncertain environment due to the unique nature of the cross-department programme,
• Working collaboratively across organisational boundaries with colleagues from different backgrounds to deliver shared outcomes.
• The ability to analyse and communicate complex financial information in a clear and understandable way.
• Full accountancy qualification under one of the main five Consultative Committees of Accounting Bodies [CCAB] i.e., ACCA; CIPFA; ICAEW; ICAI or ICAS, or CIMA
• Excellent financial management skills and a proven ability to apply them effectively.
• Experience of establishing high credibility with senior colleagues and stakeholders and the ability to influence decision-making.
• Ability to coordinate several tasks simultaneously. Well-developed skills in prioritising, organisation, decision making, time management, and verbal/written communication skills.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working on a transformation programme, preferably in the digital space
• An understanding of cross-government finance priorities, often using internal and external networks to gain insight.
• Experience of the business case process from a finance perspective
• Experience of undertaking procurement
• Experience of Cross Government working

Qualifications

• Full accountancy qualification under one of the main five Consultative Committees of Accounting Bodies [CCAB] i.e. ACCA; CIPFA; ICAEW; ICAI or ICAS, or CIMA

Nationality Requirements

• 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

Benefits

No Information Available.