Strategic Financial Advisor

5 days ago

Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom Cabinet Office Full time
Job Summary

The Cabinet Office is seeking a highly skilled Financial Reporting Manager to join its team. As a key member of the Finance department, you will be responsible for providing strategic financial analysis and reporting to support the department's leadership.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the Cabinet Office's financial position and specific business areas.
  • Provide incisive variance explanations of material/sensitive/volatile areas, with clear summaries and interpretation for senior management.
  • Deliver prompt and accurate management information, taking a proportionate approach based on materiality, with emphasis on providing insight.
  • Quality assure the integrity of data used to support robust financial forecasting, feeding back where operational data is inadequate or inaccurate.
  • Gather, maintain, and interpret a record of financial Risks and Opportunities for the financial year, reporting these regularly and articulately to senior stakeholders.
  • Ensure the consistency of data used for financial reporting against the internal chart of accounts and externally to HM Treasury (through OSCAR submissions).
Budget Management
  • Work as part of a team on the Main and Supplementary Estimate processes.
  • Oversee the forecasting process, providing trend data to Finance Business Partners to inform the annual budget and workforce plans.
  • Ensure that detailed budgets are accurately profiled, documented, and uploaded to agreed timetables.
  • Overall control of the integrity of budget transfers, ensuring they are adequately commissioned, tracked, approved, loaded, and control totals are reconciled.
Continuous Improvement
  • Develop and maintain effective policies to meet corporate and departmental strategic objectives.
  • Work on system and reporting improvements, particularly focusing on Business Intelligence tools.
  • Develop strong, collaborative relationships with finance colleagues and business areas; develop consistent and efficient financial processes, implementing continuous improvement.
  • Developing and using reporting tools for maximum impact and efficient delivery through collaboration with IT, the Corporate Data Team, the shared service provider, and harnessing relationships across government.
  • Share best practice with other government departments to ensure the Cabinet Office is working towards customer service excellence.
Person Specification
  • Experience of working within a Finance team delivering reporting, insight, and budget management services to senior stakeholders.
  • Excellent technical skills across a wide range of financial disciplines, including financial reporting, and a proven ability to apply them effectively.
  • Excellent communication skills, along with high credibility with senior colleagues and stakeholders.
  • The ability to analyse and communicate complex financial information in a clear and understandable way, with experience of using business intelligence (BI) tools.
  • Strong data handling skills through use of tools such as Excel/Google Sheets. Comfortable both inputting and extracting information from finance systems and an understanding of financial reporting hierarchies.

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