Senior Strategic Finance Advisor

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

- 238857**Salary**:

- £50,500 - £57,500-
**Grade**:

- Grade 7- Range E**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HMT - Corporate Centre Group**Type of role**:

- Accountancy
- Corporate Finance
- Finance
- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- The post can be based in London (1 Horse Guards Road), Norwich (Rosebery Court) or Darlington (Feethams House).About the job

**Summary**:
**About HM Treasury**:
If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives across the country, the Treasury is the department for you We sit at the centre of everything that the Government does and have provided advice on economic policy and decisions that affect the public finances throughout the country’s history. A Treasury career continues to offer an exciting opportunity to be part of the decision making that affects the whole of the UK.

Working at the heart of government, we collaborate with other departments to ensure public money is spent well and to drive strong and sustainable economic growth. Our work ranges from protecting customers through to the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, supporting people across the country through the COVID 19 furlough scheme and Plan for Jobs as well as helping first time buyers buy their first home.
- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

The Darlington Economic Campus is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring people together across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important issues of the day.

HM Treasury in Darlington will be joined by the Department for International Trade, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Office for National Statistics, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the Competition and Markets Authority, the Department for Education and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

**Job description**:
**Corporate Centre**

The Corporate Centre Group provides a wide range of corporate services to enable people at HM Treasury and many of the other organisations who form part of the Treasury Group (including the Government Internal Audit Agency, the Debt Management Office and the new National Infrastructure Bank) to operate effectively and efficiently. We are a diverse group, both in terms of our professions and in our ways of working.

The Corporate Centre Group is made up of: Commercial; Correspondence and Information Rights; Finance; Human Resources; Information Workspace Solutions (IWS); the Flexible Safer Working team, the Darlington programme team and Treasury Group Shared Services (based in Norwich).

**Group Finance**

HM Treasury's Group Finance Team comprises approximately 50 staff. We provide high quality advice covering strategic finance, financial management, financial reporting and counter fraud and risk for internal use, and accurate information for Parliamentary control and public accountability purposes, as well as payroll services and financial operations for the business.

We are part of the Government Finance Function (GFF), which represents and supports the finance community across the civil service. GFF offers a range of developmental opportunities, resources, tools and networks to support us in our roles.

The Strategic Finance branch consists of ten team members. We sit at the heart of departmental decision making and are responsible for advising Ministers and the Permanent Secretary on the department’s financial position, and the policy and operational choices available to manage it. We lead on multi-year planning, fiscal events, our relationship with the Treasury’s spending team, and the annual financial planning process. We also own policies across the finance team, and support the wider department in developing exciting new policy proposals, from a finance perspective.

We are a friendly, encouraging, diverse and inclusive team, and we are committed to actively supporting everyone’s well-being and professional development.

**Key accountabilities**

This is a chance to join Finance at an exciting time, working on a variety of high-profile areas With a new government in place, our team will need to respond quickly and flexibly to support the development of novel and high-impact policy across the Treasury.

At the same time, we have to deliver a 3-year Spending Review settlement - the first multi-year spending settlement since 2015. There is no template for how we do this, so as the Strategic Finance lead on Spending Reviews you will have significant scope for setting direction on this high-profile area of work.