Finance Plans and Governance

Ministry of Defence

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Details

Reference number

377020

Salary

£36,530

Depending on candidate location, this post may be eligible for the relevant London Weighting allowance.
For qualified candidates holding a Full CCAB L7 finance qualification. (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ICAEW or equivalent), additional accountancy allowances may be applicable.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

MOD - Strategic Command

Type of role

Accountancy
Business Management and Improvement
Finance
Governance

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Location

London (region), South West England, Wales, West Midlands (England)

About the job

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team within Strategic Command that has the nation’s security at its core. The organisation provides specialised capabilities to the Government and to allies overseas. This 2* Military Command is located in London and situated simultaneously within a busy MOD Directorate, an operational headquarters and a Higher Level Budget (HLB).

The finance team are responsible for protecting value for money and ensuring a robust financial control environment within the Headquarters. It supports decision making, advises on affordability and issues of regularity and propriety, and provides financial management information. It also provides some commercial advice and help with navigating routes to market.

The Finance Plans and Governance post is responsible for financial governance, compliance assurance and audit, financial advice on matters of regularity and propriety, and financial writes-off and fraud.

Strategic Command is undergoing a transformation programme aiming to improve the way the Command conducts business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence, all Strategic Command posts are subject to review and potential changes across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the transformation programme is committed to following the MOD’s framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command’s personnel and Trade Unions.

MOD Hybrid Working Policy requires colleagues to work at their post location, or other office locations according to business needs, for an average of 60% of working hours. This is particularly relevant as the post holder will need to access IT systems unavailable when working remotely. Please consider whether you can meet this requirement before applying. To discuss this further, contact Peter Wiggins using the supplied details.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

Ensure suitable financial governance procedures are in place across the business area ensuring the development of new and effective financial processes through a programme of internal audit.

Co-ordinate audit compliance, liaising with and implementing recommendations from the National Audit Office (NAO), Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) and Strategic Command assurance team.

Maintain the financial assurance activity across the business area and ensure consistency with Internal Controls Assurance Framework (ICAF) and Strategic Command compliance assurance requirements.

Act as the focal point for matters of propriety and regularity, including the production of Letters of Delegation, novel and contentious expenditure, write-offs and fraud reporting. Responsible for providing policy advice on financial and secretariat issues.

Manage the Strategic Command Financial and Human Resourcing Restrictions across the business area, ensuring extant policy is applied prior to submission up the approval chain. Maintain an appropriate audit trail of approval.

Person specification

Must be comfortable analysing financial data and communicating the results. The post holder will require strong team working skills and a customer focused approach.

The post holder will need to be organised, enthusiastic and will also require initiative and flexibility and the ability to work accurately under pressure, responding positively to short deadlines.

Essential

Recent finance experience
Demonstration of excellent interpersonal skills and experience of dealing with people at all ranks and grades
Strong IT skills.
DV Holder or subject to successful DV process.

Desirable

Working knowledge of PB&F and CP&F finance systems.
Experience of dealing with military personnel of all ranks and their pay and claims systems.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Communicating and Influencing
Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions
Delivering at Pace

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £36,530, Ministry of Defence contributes £10,582 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Benefits for MOD civil servants include, but are not limited to:

An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
25 days paid annual leave rising to 30 days on completion of 5 years’ service
In addition to 8 public holidays per year you will also receive leave for HM The King’s birthday
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave

Special Paid Leave to volunteer up to 5 days a year
Eligibility for employee discount services

Free gym access
Café and shop on site

Learning & Development

Learning and development tailored to your role
Professional and personal development of skills
Access to thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning, some free or paid by MOD

Part-time and job share will only be considered provided full time hours can be covered.

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

‘London locations may attract locational allowances. The ‘Inner London Weighting RRA Allowance’ is £3,250 per annum and the ‘Outer London Weighting RRA Allowance’ is £1,750 per annum.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.

Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.

Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – we may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

The sifting for interview process
Candidates will be required to complete an online application, which will include a CV (including job history, details of qualifications and previous experiences and skills) and assessment against the following Civil Service Success Profile Behaviours:

Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions

Behaviours. Please carefully study the Applicant Guide in Supporting Documents for details on how to present Behaviours against the specified indicators using the STAR format (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Applications are sifted and marked on this basis.

Experience. Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience. The Applicant Guide provides details on how best to present this.

In the event of a high number of applicants, the sift will be performed solely on the CV element.

The Interview process
Candidates selected for interview will be required to explain/discuss examples of their experience, against the following Civil Service Success Profile Behaviours:

Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions
Changing and Improving
Delivering at Pace

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk .

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) 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 (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : RECRUITING-GROUP-MAILBOX-LDN@MOD.GOV.UK
Email : RECRUITING-GROUP-MAILBOX-LDN@MOD.GOV.UK

Recruitment team

Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk

Further information

Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: , Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email:
info@csc.gov.uk.