Counter Violent Extremist Organisations Deputy Finance Manager

Ministry of Defence; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department in the UK is seeking a finance support professional to enhance operational effectiveness through meticulous financial management and reporting. The role involves assessing expenditures, contributing to financial forecasts, and implementing continuous improvement strategies. Ideal candidates will have experience in financial planning, strong analytical and communication skills, and a collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial planning and management.
• Ability to gather and analyze business information.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to Operations in financial planning.
• Contribute to monthly forecasts and explain variances.
• Review identified risks and ensure adjustments are made.
• Provide routine financial health reports.
• Review resource-related risks at locations.
• Scrutinize and assess spend proposals against expenditure plans.
• Identify gaps in enabling processes and implement mitigations.

Job description

Overview

Provide support to Operations

Responsibilities

• Gather business information from relevant Operations, liaising with deployed finance teams, ensuring reporting mechanisms are followed to inform financial planning and in-year management and escalating any concerns.
• Contribute to the monthly IYM forecast; ensuring input into PB&F meets with the monthly timetable; is robust and that variances over 5% are explained.
• Review and advise on risks identified as part of the forecast process ensuring that they are relevant and are adjusted to reflect changes as appropriate.
• Provide routine reports on the state of financial health for operations. Scrutinise and ensure the accounts and forecast provides a true & fair reflection of activity conducted within the period.
• Keep under review resource-related risk at each location/unit to ensure that sustainment/remediation requirements are identified early and can be addressed as soon as possible to ensure value for money.
• Assess spend proposals against expenditure plans to ensure that unplanned spend can be accommodated within allocated limits of liability. Undertake robust financial scrutiny to all requests.
• Identify and escalat potential gaps in enabling processes (EPC,invoice payments,cashmanagementetc.), to ensure appropriate mitigations are put in place.

Continuous Improvement

• Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures.
• Seeking feedback on the services provided, and continuously striving to improve the service provision. Promptly address any key issues that arise ensuring that processes or ways of working are adapted accordingly, and customers are informed where there is an impact.
• Identifying any misinterpretation of guidance and escalating in a timely and constructive manner with team members to promote embedding any lesson(s) learnt.
• Supporting input to change programmes and embracing change.

Delivering Your Area of Responsibility

• Being open to challenge and new ideas, sharing of knowledge and experience, encouraging others through building a supportive team environment.
• Developing and embedding the use of standardised processes to deliver a consistent output to customers.
• Exercising sound judgement and interpretative ability, and application of innovative thought to derive novel solutions.
• Seeking advice, referring upwards as required, where problems are particularly complex or have wider implications.