Finance Manager

About the job

Job summary

DIO’s finance function aims to provide best in class financial management, reporting and advice to a range of stakeholders across the MOD, ensuring value for money for the taxpayer in how the Department’s Infrastructure Portfolio is delivered.

DIO Finance operates a flexible working model whereby individuals may be required to transfer to another role. This may be in response to critical vacancies or for the individual’s personal development. These moves will not require a change to an individual’s duty station.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week

Job description

Financial management of all areas of the retained DIO Accommodation delivery area budget of c£1.1Bn (RDEL and CDEL) covering Service Family Accommodation within the UK and the European Support Group. Management of key finance processes, including In-Year Management, the Annual Budgeting Cycle, assurance and approval of new commitments, ARAc returns and Audit queries. Management of IFRS16 for the Anningtons Lease and Bulk Lease Hires. The team are also responsible for managing Contributions In Lieu of Council Tax, SFA/SLA and sub-let income, Defence Accommodation Stores, Housing PFIs, the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy and the Modernised Accommodation Offer.

Providing insight to the Business, Finance Leadership Team, and wider Finance teams

• Producing standardised reports/dashboards for monthly financial reviews and Annual Budget Cycle (ABC). The ABC is the current process by which the Department internally allocates the Defence Budget set by HM Treasury.
• Screenings, along with supplementary information to the Finance Business Partner (FBP) and Finance Leadership Team (FLT) as appropriate.
• Although team members may support specific Business area(s), all team members will be expected to be flexible and cover Business areas as required.

Routine requirements

• Ensuring the integrity and accuracy of transactions on financial systems, with effective controls and checks in place.
• Ensuring all required information is provided, outputs are accurate, timely and meet the expected standards for:
• Month end activities, ensuring you and your team complete utilising the correct accounting entries and completed in compliance with relevant internal and wider government policy and a robust audit trail maintained.
• Monitoring, and where appropriate approving invoices, engaging with commercial and suppliers when required to resolve issues.
• Reviewing and undertaking the input of budget profiles into corporate reporting systems, forming the baseline for future progress measurement.
• Corporate system input is consistently achieved for your business area(s) for all aspects of ABC and In-Year Management (IYM).
• Engaging with the Business where evidence for manual accruals is insufficient and flagging issues, by exception, to the appropriate Finance Business Partner.
• All misbookings are to be corrected at source, removing any need for future manual intervention. Engaging with Project and Commercial staff to resolve any issues and work towards a right first-time input.
• Reviewing the Chart of Accounts, ensuring the structure remains current and consistent, verifying new requirements as legitimate.
• Undertaking and managing the maintenance of corporate systems access for all Finance Staff.

Continuous improvement

• Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures.
• Seeking feedback on the services provided, and continuously strive to improve the service provision.
• Supporting the solutions to issues highlighted during internal or external audit, ensuring that you understand the guidance provided to promote embedding the lesson(s) learnt.

Fulfilling your area of responsibility

• Management of team members, motivating and coaching to enable effective delivery.
• Supporting individual’s personal development and careers, ensuring you and the team make time to develop themselves and their peers.
• Being open to challenge and new ideas, sharing of knowledge and experience, encouraging others through building a supportive team environment
• Ensuring you and the team are getting the basics right at the first attempt.
• Supporting development and embedding the use of standardised processes to deliver a consistent output to customers.
• Working within set parameters, dealing with, and taking decisions on day-to-day issues.
• Referring to senior staff or SMEs on matters of policy or novel, complex issues.

Person specification

• Highly numerate with a record of success in a financial management role with excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience of leading a team with excellent people management skills with the ability to promote team cohesion, adapt to changes and improvements
• Strong communicator, able to communicate at all levels and excellent presentation skills
• Experience in leading and/or influencing organisational change
• Ability to work flexible and adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to develop collaborative relationships with a range of stakeholders and teams
• Highly developed planning and organisational skills in a financial environment and experience of delivery and meeting tight deadlines.

Behaviours

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Communicating and Influencing

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

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

• Finance Functional Competence: In Year Financial Management - Practitioner Level
• Finance Functional Competence: Financial Planning - Practitioner Level
• Finance Functional Competence: Financial Governance - Practitioner Level

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

• Finance Functional Competence: In Year Financial Management - Practitioner Level

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,290, Ministry of Defence contributes £10,223 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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