Army Resources

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

- 273992**Salary**:

- £33,830-
**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- C2**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Army - Army Resources - Capability and Equipment Finance Team**Type of role**:

- Finance**Working pattern**:

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

- 5Contents

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**Job summary**:
We enable our people to work at the right place, with the right people, at the right time.

We believe that if we look after our people, they will be passionate about delivering great things for our customers.

We understand the importance of life outside of work and our industry leading flexible working practices, digital technology and modern workspaces allows the opportunity to enjoy a healthy work-life balance.

Learning & Development:
Alongside the Professional and Personal Development of skills opportunities available, you will have access to the thousands of training courses through Civil Service Learning and will be supported to obtain industry recognised qualifications.

Join the Army Headquarters (AHQ) CEFT and have a future that matters: Be proud; Be challenged; Be unique.

AHQ is passionate about ensuring that we are a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We host a vast range of talent where everyone feels valued and supported enabling everyone to thrive, bring greater creativity and innovation to achieve higher organisational performance. We are committed to be an equal opportunities employer and creating a culture where everyone can bring their whole self to work, and individuality is truly appreciated.

We promote and support a range of flexible working patterns enabling staff to balance home and work responsibilities.

This ethos of inclusion is underpinned by our 6 staff networks covering Disability, Faith and Belief, Gender Equality, LGBTQI+, Race, Social Mobility and 3 networks dealing with employee well-being and support: Speak Safe Volunteers, Mental Health First Aiders and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisers.

Our staff, future and current will be guided by the 4 Cs, and we encourage all to be curious and continuously strive for improvement, collaborative in an encompassing culture, ambitious and resilient and committed to Defence, empowered and able to challenge, so we can play a key part in shaping the direction of our organisation.

AHQ commits to offer its employees the following experience:

- Relevant, purposeful work
- An opportunity to learn and grow
- Support of your well-being
- To feel valued and included

Please be advised that the Army is conducting a review of its current Finance and HR Operating Models. At the time of advertisement this post is deemed to have an enduring requirement and it is not anticipated that this post will be likely to change in the immediate future, however is in scope of ongoing reviews.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:
Would you like to join a high-profile finance team in Army Headquarters? The Capability and Equipment Finance Team (CEFT) operates in a dynamic, fast paced environment embedded in with Army’s capability and equipment leads, ensuring the affordability of the Army’s £45Bn Equipment Programme

Our responsibilities include:

- Management and delivery of a balanced Equipment Programme across the Planning Horizon and In-Year
- Management of both the Equipment Modernisation Portfolio and In-Service Capabilities
- Provide financial support to the Capability Balance of Investment process
- Financial scrutiny of Equipment Business Cases
- Provide financial policy, advice, and guidance to our customers
- Offer finance training to the wider AHQ community
- Act as the financial link into the Delivery Agents

The Challenge:
CEFT manages the £45Bn Equipment Programmes and spends £3Bn each year maintaining and developing the Army’s Equipment Programme in pursuit of its strategic objectives

CEFT aim to provide the ‘best in class’ financial management, reporting to/and advising a wide range of customers across the breadth of the Army HQ, ensuring value for money for the taxpayer across the Army’s Equipment Plan, whilst offering a diverse range of challenges and development opportunities.

A CEFT Equipment Finance Officer is responsible for providing financial support and advice to the Army’s Equipment Plan Budget Holders, against the delegated Control Totals. Each post will work closely with a wide variety of contributors from Army Equipment Leads to Delivery Agents to other Finance Teams across the Army HQ.

This role may require travel to Corsham or Abbeywood (though the visit frequency will depend upon complexity and materiality of the delegated budget).

**Person specification**:
Main Responsibilities:
In Year Management Forecasting and Financial Planning
- Financial scrutiny a