Internal Controls Officer

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

- 298736**Salary**:

- £31,120 - £37,260- National: £31,120 - £33,085; London: £34,410 - £37,260 Pay allowance - Up to £8,838 in line with Qualification status- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- BEIS - Corporate Services - Corporate Services - Finance Directorate**Type of role**:

- Accountancy
- Finance**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, SalfordAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Our Mission**

At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission

We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.

**Our Inclusive Environment**

We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

**Job description**:

- This role will be in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
- The Financial Controls and Assurance team are within the DSIT Finance directorate. The work of the team is focussed on providing support and advice to management on issues that affect good governance. There are various ways in which we plan to achieve this including improving communication and education around what controls and assurance means. We lead on corporate policies such as expenses and financial delegations.
- We engage business groups and corporate service leads to identify how we can strengthen assurance within the department,including by developing new management information and tools to help senior leaders assess performance. We also work with the Government Internal Audit Agency to identify and test any potential areas of weakness.**Person specification**:

- Managing internal and external stakeholders.
- Managing service delivery and monitor continuation of service.
- Assisting with reviews for non-compliance and monitoring performance.
- Ensuring that financial procedures are fully documented and guidance kept up to date.
- Managing team inboxes including responding, prioritising, and escalating queries as appropriate.
- Supporting completion of Freedom of Information (FOI) and Parliamentary Questions (PQ) requests.
- Monitoring of Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) actions, working with GIAA and action owners to ensure they are delivered.
- Recording updates to the department’s financial delegations.
- Completion of other adhoc tasks as directed.

**Skills and Experience**
- Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills, including awareness of when to escalate.
- Internal and external stakeholder management skills.
- Team player including collaboration and also pro-activeness to work independently.
- Effective decision making, using personal judgement and a range of sources to make a decision or create recommendations.
- Proficient in MS Office including Word and Excel (comfortable working with large data sets)
- Working towards an accounting or internal audit qualification (e.g. AAT, CIA, CCAB) or relevant experience working in a Finance, Audit or Assurance team would be advantageous.

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

- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £31,120, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy contributes £8,402 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.

Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an average employer contribution of 27%.

A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, i