Head of Finance for Regeneration, Housing and

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

- 352019**Salary**:

- £61,599-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Finance**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- Birmingham, Darlington, Leeds, London, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
DLUHC Finance is an exciting and varied place to work. We work closely with policy teams to develop flagship policies ranging from the Brownfield Infrastructure and Land Fund which is aimed at making brownfield land fit for housing development and the Affordable Homes Programme which is delivering affordable homes and new homes specifically for social rent. Recent fiscal events have provided the department with significant funding and delivery responsibility, for example in the areas of planning reform and urban regeneration as part of a long-term plan for housing.

Our focus is ensuring we make best use of its resources to deliver our priorities. The Finance and Performance - Housing team is at the forefront of this. We are a friendly team with a focus on development and wellbeing.

**Job description**:
You will lead a team of eight that provides finance business partnering support to specific directorates. You will also lead a wider virtual team responsible for providing support to the DG on group-wide issues.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Being a key contributor to policy development of our largest or Novel & Contentious programmes e.g. those that need internal Investment Sub Committee and HMT approval. Stay on top of the biggest issues that need resolving, offering advice and support to policy colleagues whilst providing autonomy to G7-sub teams to lead on routine issues. Identify accounting officer risks and support the development of AO advice as necessary.
- Ensure that the team provides value-adding quality technical advice on in the development of new policy. Liaise closely with the DLUHC Financial Accounting and Reporting Team and HMT Spending Teams to ensure plans are consistent with Managing Public Money. This role includes oversight of some of the Department’s most complex funds for Housing, including Financial Transactions (loans) and Guarantees.
- Provide a first-class finance business partnering service on forecasting and reporting. This will include supporting G7s to do review of monthly forecasts, ensuring the team provides coherent, insightful commentaries. Discuss budgets and forecasts with Directors regularly to make sure they understand and takes ownership. Ensure variances that will lead to financial or delivery issues are properly understood, escalated and (where possible) mitigated.
- Provide quality management information to the DG and DG-led portfolio boards ensuring that forecasts are scrutinised thoroughly and plans to manage within budgets are agreed and implemented.
- Uphold good governance and financial management by ensuring Directors and their SLTs are following regular financial processes (month end, change control process etc.), have good financial governance in place, and that SROs feel accountable for their budgets.
- Represent DLUHC Finance on key programme and governance boards - identify spending risks that are emerging so they can be tackled at an early stage. Act as an advocate to the business to the Centre so that key financial challenges including pressures are considered.
- Be a key member of the virtual team planning upcoming fiscal events. This will include working with the central Financial Strategy function to support early SR planning, but also the policy-led Housing Strategy Division so that the business is also well placed to develop a spending bid.
- Use relationships with the business to support completion of key commissions for fiscal events, annual business planning and other ad hoc central commissions. Liaising with HMT to ensure good understanding and to resolve issues as required.
- Shape the work plans of central Finance team, feeding back regularly on how processes are working and shaping improvement plans.
- Build a cohesive, properly resourced, diverse and resilient team where people want to work and feel engaged, empowered, supported and challenged. Role model good management behaviours by taking a keen interest in the development needs of the team at all levels.
- Set clear priorities for the team and review regularly. Proactively manage workloads, engaging with the business to ensure manageable pipelines.
- Become a proactive member of the SLT, supporting G6 peers and the G5 DD in management of the wider division and setting the leadership direction.
- Participate in corporate projects aimed at improving the Finance Directorate.
- This role will provide oversight of complex of the Department’s financial transactions (loans) an