Commercial Finance Lead

7 months ago

Croydon, United Kingdom Public Sector Resourcing Full time

**Commercial Finance Manager**

**Inside IR35**

**Contract Term**:12 months (likely extension)***

**Contracting Authority**:The Home Office

**Location**:Hybrid (Croydon 2-3 days per week, remainder WFH/remote

**Please note**:Active SC Clearance is required for this role

The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has led work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm; in doing so, we make a vital contribution to HM Government’s plan for a stronger, fairer, outward-looking and united Britain.

The Home Office covers three systems: Homeland Security, Public Safety and Borders, and Immigration and Citizenship. These systems work collaboratively to deliver our cross-cutting priorities, whilst providing increasingly efficient and secure services for the public. These are difficult areas that can rapidly change in the global environment we work in - this makes us one of the most exciting and stimulating government departments in which to work.

**The role**:
The primary function of our Commercial Finance Lead, will be to lead and support the financial aspects of commercial finance activity, ensuring the timely delivery of financial support and assurance to stakeholders throughout the commercial lifecycle.

These are exciting leadership & delivery roles where you will have the opportunity to support the leadership and development of the newly established commercial finance team, bringing together existing teams and expertise to deliver specialist value-adding support, challenge & advice across the commercial activities of the Home Office. Your role will also be to share best practice and knowledge to drive-up the commercial finance capabilities and confidence of the wider commercial directorate.

**As a Commercial Finance Lead, your main responsibilities will be (but are not limited to)**:

- Interpretation of the risk environment to ensure risks are appropriately managed by either the Authority or the supplier.
- Contributing to contractual financial schedules for procurement, but particularly tailoring the financial schedules as included in the Model Services Contract.
- Designing and developing the financial pricing model (FPM) and the associated user manual.
- Financial evaluation and scoring of bids contributing to the recommendation to award.
- Supporting market engagement events, negotiations and engagement with bidders.
- Ensure a comprehensive handover to the ‘live environment’.
- Leading on high profile or high-risk supplier investigations, developing the approach and working effectively with suppliers to execute the financial control mechanisms included within contracts.
- Conducting financial due diligence work, ensuring assessments of the financial well-being of prospective suppliers prior to contract award and ongoing regular assessments for key and strategic suppliers.
- Develop and share best practice, skills, knowledge and experience across the finance and commercial directorates through the provision of training, collaborative working and networking across government.
- Use intelligence gathering and sharing to ensure broad awareness of business trends across the Department.
- Continuous improvement of processes and tools to enhance the team’s contribution to the procurement process.
- The post holder may be required to undertake additional responsibilities as expected in relation to the role and grade.
- Recognise that value for money (VfM) is a key priority when dealing with public money and embed VfM principles in all products;
- Ensure all procurement and products comply with the Department's finance policies, standards and best practice; and
- Provide support in embedding the newly published ‘Outsourcing Playbook’, which provides guidelines, rules and principles for the outsourcing of projects.
- Manages Complexity and delivers a quality Service - Evidence of leading teams/activities and experience of successfully delivering commercial and financial objectives.
- Builds Collaborative Relationships - Successfully worked with a range of stakeholders & partners, using communication/collaboration to deliver successfully, challenge assumptions and positively influence changes to ways of working.
- Coaching Manager - Experience of coaching, managing through change and supporting wellbeing. Leading and sharing best practice development to drive-up the commercial finance knowledge and coaching commercial teams to build-up capabilities and confidence.
- Experience of gathering, analysing and interpreting financial information, with Excel and financial modelling skills to a good level.
- The ability to understand and summarise complex financial information quickly and accurately and present conclusions and recommendations.

**You will have the following criteria**:

- Manages Complexity and delivers a quality Service - Evidence of leading teams/activities and experience of successfully delivering commercial and financial objectiv

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