Lead Financial Analyst

Crown Commercial Service; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Crown Commercial Service seeks a Lead Financial Analyst to manage a team responsible for financial assurance activities supporting over 10,000 suppliers. This role requires strong analytical skills, stakeholder management capabilities, and a professional accounting qualification. Join a dynamic finance team committed to delivering commercial agreements while ensuring compliance with financial policies.

Benefits

A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus

Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location

Minimum 25 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Experience of working with multiple stakeholders with varying levels of financial knowledge.
• Ability to interpret financial information to identify financial risk.
• Team leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide team of 4 to deliver financial assurance activities.
• Manage multiple stakeholders and prioritise a varied workload.
• Oversee creation of risk evaluation reports and communicate findings.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical decision-making

Financial risk analysis

Education

Professional accounting qualification (minimum level of Part Qualified - ICAEW or equivalent)

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Resourcing Lead at Crown Commercial Service

Job Title: Lead financial analyst

Band: 5

Location: Liverpool/Norwich

Terms: Permanent

Hours: Full time/compressed

Closing Date: 14/07/2025

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Are you an experienced leader that enjoys analytical decision making? Do you like managing stakeholders and using your technical finance skills to help others? Come and join our Commercial Finance team.

Job Summary

As Senior Financial Analyst you will be responsible for leading a team of 4 to deliver financial assurance activities for the many suppliers active on CCS commercial agreements. This role will also deputise for the Head of Commercial Finance.

Your team will develop and deliver a structured high quality supplier financial risk analysis service line to support ongoing commercial agreement management. You will provide real time support and guidance, act as a trusted adviser and contribute to the CCS customer value proposition. You will be required to manage multiple stakeholders and prioritise a varied workload whilst maintaining a focus on detail and accuracy.

Directorate Overview

Finance, Planning and Performance oversees our financial reporting, develops budgets and projections, formulates business plans, tracks implementation progress, measures success metrics and manages corporate risk.

Team Summary

This fantastic and rare opportunity within the Commercial Finance Team which supports CCS to manage financial risk for over 10,000 suppliers. Our team really makes a difference working with procurement operations to deliver commercial agreements while ensuring compliance with financial stability policy and delivering value for our customers through performing financial risk assurance activities as part of CCS supplier relationship management.

Responsibilities

• lead and guide team members, manage performance to ensure a high-performing team, and support staff development through regular feedback
• Deputy team lead for Commercial Finance, engage and influence senior stakeholder within CCS
• Lead the post-award assurance team to deliver a proactive assurance service line, provide instruction and development to direct reports
• Oversee the creation of risk evaluation reports by reviewing financial information, applying financial ratios and providing concise conclusions
• Act as a trusted partner to commercial teams to manage emerging risk and agree contractual remedies
• Input to the commercial finance systems and reporting, enabling timely, high quality reports to Procurement Operations and Category teams
• Identify and lead on initiatives to develop the commercial Finance service offering
• Engage with Cabinet Office and other departments to share best practice and contribute to cross government risk management
• Communicate financial reports, processes and financial risk guidance in a simple, easy to understand manner

Essential Criteria (to be assessed at application stage

• Ability to deliver to strict deadlines and to work under pressure
• Ability to interpret financial information to identify financial risk and make critical contractual recommendations
• Experience of working with multiple stakeholders with varying levels of financial knowledge
• Professional accounting qualification (minimum level of Part Qualified - ICAEW or equivalent)
• Team leadership experience
• Working knowledge of Government Playbooks and the Economic and Financial Stability policy

In the event of a high number of strong candidates we will use desirable as a second sift

Success profiles (To be assessed at interview stage):

Behaviours

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing

And the following technical skills:

• Financial risk analysis

(A link to the Civil Service Success Profiles Framework is provided below)

Success Profiles Framework

What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:

• A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
• Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
• Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank

Explore fully how we will reward your work.

Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack

At CCS, we actively support, promote and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people.

We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact [e-mail]

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.

Selection Process

Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift and interview times and dates to be confirmed. (Subject to change)

To find out more about our recruitment process please click here

Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact [e-mail].

Complaints procedure:

Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact [e-mail] in the first instance.

If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at [e-mail]

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