Caas Eba B2

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 255569**Salary**:

- £54,440**Job grade**:

- Grade 7- B2**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Head Office & Corporate Services - DG Finance**Type of role**:

- Accountancy
- Analytical
- Finance**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Andover, Bristol, High WycombeAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Cost Assurance and Analysis Services (CAAS) has a proud heritage which dates back over 100 years to World War One when it was formed to prevent the munitions industry from overcharging the Government. The Complexities of equipment procurement forced the government at the time to recruit its own technical civil servants, and this forms the heart of the purpose of CAAS. Today, the CAAS team of over 300 estimators, cost engineers, forecasters, portfolio analysts and accountants provide expert independent costing advise to enable the Ministry of Defence to make effective business decisions on equipment procurement and support. CAAS provides dedicated teams to independently support customers across the MOD, including Defence Equipment & Support, Defence Infrastructure Organisation, Head Office and the Front-Line Commands. CAAS is geographically dispersed around the UK with offices close to or within sites of key Defence Industrial Suppliers.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Part time applicants will only be considered if full time cover can be achieved via job share.

**Job description**:
Deploying financial analysis expertise in support of CAAS’ Cost Management Leadership focus to ensure that efficiencies and benefits management, is being implemented and reported effectively across the Department in support of Defence’s affordability challenge. This will also require the provision of support to Enabling Organisations (EO) and Front-Line Commands (FLC) to ensure they have sufficiently mature capability to engage in this discipline.

There is a requirement to support senior management by assuring key Departmental data, providing confidence that it can be relied upon and will also withstand external scrutiny, as part of wider understanding of Cost Management.

The Department may also require the use of financial analytics to inform strategic cost management related decisions such as Spending and Integrated Reviews.

As an Efficiencies, Benefits and Analysis (EB&A) B2, you are expected to provide technical and task leadership to support CAAS business objectives in three key areas.
- Benefits Assistance: Supporting the Department in developing benefits management capabilities into business as usual and, as appropriate, support the production of benefits related outputs required by the business.
- Independent Assurance: Conducting assurance of key cost management and project performance metrics, particularly those relating to benefits/efficiencies, to provide confidence to senior management in the values being reported by the Department both internally and externally.
- Cost Management Diagnostic: Conduct a rapid consultancy style review of a programme’s Cost Management regime. Identify risks and opportunities on behalf of the Senior Responsible Officer, developing practical solutions to improve cost management outcomes.

The post holder will be expected to contribute towards to wider development of analytics capabilities within CAAS in support of the Supplier Insight programme as required.

**_ Responsibilities: _**

2. Provide technical expertise and strategic direction that supports the adoption of benefits best practice and compliance with MOD policy by those seeking to deliver benefits. Work with HO, DA and FLC staff to enhance their understanding of how best to discharge their benefits management responsibilities. As required support customers’ production of benefits management artefacts in support of developing infrastructure or occasionally in support of approvals submissions whilst managing CAAS independence.

3. During Cost Management Diagnostic tasks scope customer requirements, building stakeholder relationships across MOD/wider Government/Industry as required. Use technical cost expertise and experience to develop and agree review approaches with customers, deploying and managing finite resources to deliver outputs. Communicate findings back to stakeholders and senior management to achieve impact.

4. Engage in wider CAAS programmes of work as required by workforce planning. Specifically support Supplier Insight outputs by using financial analysis expertise to quality assure reports as directed by the SI Section Lead.

5. Support wider CAAS Cost Management Leadership activities by identifying and structuring necessary capability interventions at DAs and FLCs. CAAS’ remit as a pan-MOD cost management leader means there will frequently be the need to work with other parts of MOD