Chemicals Pesticides and Hazardous Waste

3 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Full time

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

- 340219**Salary**:

- £39,439 - £47,039- National: £39,439 - £43,569, London: £42,577 - £47,039, For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under the heading ‘Salary’.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DEFRA - Environment - Environment Quality**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- Bristol, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic SEO Strategic Finance and HR lead in the Environmental Quality Directorate’s Chemicals Pesticides and Hazardous Waste (CPHW) Division. The Division delivers policies which ensure the effective management of chemicals throughout their life cycle, for everyone, the environment, and the economy. We work closely with a number of delivery partners to achieve our goals, including other Government Departments, as well as Government Agencies, Regulators, academia and international organisations.

**Job description**:
An overview of responsibilities is set out below:
1) Lead on Divisional day to day budgets and support on future finance bids:

- Responsible for managing CPHW’s finances: budget spend and forecasts and associated processes and reporting standards. This includes:
Supporting the Deputy Directors and G6s on resource forecasting, cost estimations and financial management reporting

Working to track the actual and forecast Programme and Capital spend across the year for each of CPHW’s budgets

Attending monthly EQ finance leads meetings to develop and share best practice

Work with Defra Finance Business Partners to ensure current staffing structure and funding arrangements are reflected in workforce planning systems at DEFRA

Complete detailed monthly checks against our actual transactions

Manage discussions with CPHW’s delivery bodies (e.g. Health and Safety Executive, Environment Agency, Natural England) in regard to their actual and forecast budget and support the development of delivery agreements and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for each body

Facilitate training as necessary for CPHW, overseeing the processes

Manage the end-to-end payment process within CPHW - from contract to final closure of the purchase orders (including the end of year process) including working closely with evidence teams on contract milestones
- Working with various teams to support CPHW’s strategic financial bids into Government Budgets and Spending Reviews alongside the G7 and G6 in team, providing quality assurance across any proposed budgetary items.

2) Support the HEO in leading on Divisional strategic workforce planning and other cross-cutting HR matters:

- Develop CPHW’s HR and People Plan
- Own the process for starters and leavers and run recruitment campaigns for the Division as required
- Support the development of CPHW’s performance management process
- Manage the process for CPHW’s performance management
- Manage CPHW’s workforce planner and organogram
- Support the tracking of our overall FTE and ensure that we are keeping within both budgetary and financial limits
- Resolve complex recruitment and HR issues as these arise
- Line manage 1 x HEO and oversee their finance and HR responsibilities

This is not an exhaustive list and the post holder need to be flexible and adapt their responsibilities to meet business demands. In return we can offer a variety of on the job learning and shadowing opportunities as well as access to training courses and events to help develop their career as well as their contribution to the Division.

**Person specification**:
Key points of experience required include an ability to:

- Analyse, critique and make sense of numerical and written data and be able to break this down into simple key messages
- Line manage effectively & to get the best out of a growing, capable and motivated team. Delegate tasks effectively and track their completion
- Deliver at pace within often tight timescales and changing objectives. Demonstrable ability to cope with ambiguity
- Influence colleagues internal and external to CPHW and Defra to achieve outcomes
- Resolve tricky delivery problems, escalating to G7 as required
- Be comfortable working with Excel and navigating government financial management, monitoring and tracking processes
- A track record of providing quality corporate/business support across people, workforce, and financial areas
- Ability to re-prioritise effectively and maintain required quality levels when faced with competing demand

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

- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Ma

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