Head of Finance
Registers of Scotland
Apply before Midday on Friday 27th September 2024
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Job summary
In this role, you will have a key strategic role, working closely with the senior management team at RoS, providing value to RoS through the provision of appropriate financial information to support strategic decision making and to monitor and evaluate outcomes against plans. This is a great opportunity to play a professionally and personally rewarding leadership role where as a leader you will be motivated, inspiring, inclusive, and passionate, both in terms of the changes you will make to the organisation and the difference we can make to people’s lives. You will have line management responsibilities for staff and will take a proactive role in supporting the effective performance of the finance team and support the delivery of RoS being an effective and efficient delivery organisation. You will work collaboratively with your peers to support RoS’ success and to ensure that our strategic objectives are met, in an affordable and fiscally sustainable manner, helping to shape and deliver an ambitious and future focused corporate strategy, which embeds a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Reporting to the Chief Finance Officer (CFO), you will be responsible for leading and coordinating the finance team’s work, and where necessary, stepping in for the CFO as required.
This role sits within the Policy and Corporate Services Directorate which is one of five directorates within RoS. Within the finance team of 30 core staff, there are five teams – management accounts, management reporting, financial planning and analysis, financial accounting, financial transactions & credit control and Finance systems. As Head of Finance, you will lead at least two of these teams. The team provides a range of financial services including management accounting, provision of technical and strategic financial advice to all business areas across the organisation, delivery of the annual accounts and audit assurance and corporate reporting.
Job description
Main duties and responsibilities
•Responsible for leading the financial accounting, financial transactions & credit control and finance systems teams (including staff management and training).
•Responsible for the planning, preparing and delivery of interim and year end audits and accounts.
•Ensure financial control is in compliance with all relevant accounting standards, tax and legislation.
•Asset Management
•Report alignment with Scottish government funding categories
•Audit and Risk Committee attendance.
•National Fraud Initiative oversight
•Cash management.
•Responsible for developing and delivering the financial systems strategy and system replacement/upgrade plan.
•Assist RoS to develop and renew the long-term financial strategy.
•Governance boards attendance as required.
•Project board attendance as required.
•Delegation for CFO as required.
Person specification
We will assess against the technical skills in the application sift and assessment.
•Fully CCAB qualified (or UK equivalent qualification), with up-to-date CPD, strong technical accountancy and financial management skills and preferably knowledge of public sector budgeting and accounting frameworks.
•Experience of using Excel.
Competencies
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the application sift and assessment.
Changing and improving
Considers the cumulative impact on own business area of implementing change (culture, structure, service and morale)
Analysis and making effective decisions
Analyses and evaluates data from various sources to identify pros and cons and identify risks in order to make or support well considered decisions at a senior level.
Leading and communicating
Confidently engages with the ability to influence, negotiate and collaborate with stakeholders and colleagues at all levels to generate commitment to goals and builds high performing teams.
Demonstrating commitment and Drive
Gets the best out of people by being positive and encouraging about priorities, objectives, and expectations. Has the ability to think and act strategically and make links across policy and organisational boundaries.
Benefits
What can we offer you? – Benefits at RoS:
- We are a welcoming and inclusive community that functions on supportive practices such as Agile Coaches, Business Analysts, UX specialists and more.
- We offer a stimulating working environment and strongly believe that a diverse team is crucial to achieving our mission!
- Our team is ambitious, acts with integrity and demonstrates commitment to progress and impact. We nurture talent and reward success.
- We work in an agile way, which is applied across the whole organisation.
- RoS offers a generous annual leave entitlement. Starting with 26 days of holiday plus 12 days bank holidays (for a total of 38 days). We reward your commitment to us by increasing annual leave by +1 day per year, for up to +4 additional days on your entitlement, bringing your allowance to 42 days.
- We operate a 36-hour working week and offer flexible working arrangements (up to 30 hours flexi per month).
- This job is based in our Edinburgh office and we currently offer a hybrid working model, having established we can successfully work remotely.
As part of the reward package, you will get access to:
- Civil Service employer pension contributions at circa 29%.
- Service benefits, cycle to work scheme, discounted dental insurance, £100 eye care vouchers subsidised gym memberships, buying and selling annual leave, retail discounts and more!
- Family friendly leave policies (Maternity at *1-year full pay, Paternity Leave/Shared parental Leave/Special Leave & more) *after 1 year of continuous service.
- We will pay for your annual financial accreditation fee.
- We offer continuous training and development opportunities, including being able to attend industry events.
- A generous salary range with pay progression arrangements is in place.
- You will have access to external counselling and external advice.
- We are a Disability Confident employer.
- We hold a Invest in People Gold Award, Investors in Young People Silver Award and We Invest in Wellbeing Gold Award.
- We monitor equal opportunities and offer support where needed.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
How to Apply
To apply, click on 'Apply now’ and complete our online application form, you will need to submit:
•A CV setting out your career history and how you meet the Responsibilities and Technical criteria required in the role (we recommend no more than 4 pages in length).
•Provide answers on how you meet the Competencies for the role (300 words maximum for each answer).
•Name and membership number of your financial accreditation.
Please note:
•CVs that are not accompanied by answers to the competencies will not be scored.
•Competency answers exceeding 300 words will not be considered.
•We would strongly recommend that your answers are written in the STAR format (Situation, Task, Action & Result).
•We recommend that you work on your answers to the competencies using some form of word processing software such as MS Word or Google sheets, and then paste it in the boxes provided; the system will “time-out” and sign you off if you are inactive or spend over a certain amount of time in the application without saving your progress.
•If we receive a high volume of applications, we may complete an initial sift on the first essential criteria.
For further information on the competencies, visit our competency framework
Assessment
Successful candidates from sift will be emailed a leadership judgement test and excel on Wednesday 2nd October. Invites to assessment will be sent to suitable candidates on Tuesday 1st October.
Assessments will include a behaviour-based interview and a role -specific exercise, details of which will be shared with candidates who successfully make it through the sift stage. We will be assessing candidates in-person in our Edinburgh office, (Meadowbank House, 153 London Road, Edinburgh, EH8 7AU). Assessments and appointments are made in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, in strict merit order.
For further information on the competencies, visit our Competency Framework
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Katie Brown
- Email : katiebrown@michaelpage.com
Recruitment team
- Email : Resourcing@ros.gov.uk
