Job Description

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Reference number

413517
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Salary

44,590
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP
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Job grade

Senior Executive Officer###

Contract type

Permanent###

Business area

MOD - Strategic Command###

Type of role

Accountancy

Analytical


Corporate Finance

Finance###

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours###

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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Northwood, HA6 3HP

About the job

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Job summary

As the Defence integrator, Strategic Command (UKStratCom) sits at the heart of Defence, giving us the winning edge in an ever-uncertain and competitive world. Every single operation relies on the connectivity and skills we offer the whole of the Armed Forces.The UKStratCom Finance Function supports multiple Service Directorates - the Headquarters; Defence Medical Services; Defence Intelligence; Defence Digital; Special Forces; National Cyber Force; Directorate of Overseas Bases; Defence Support; and Permanent Joint Headquarters. Following implementation of Finance Transformation (FinTx) in January 2025, the function is now made up of over 180 finance personnel across Finance Operations, Specialist Services, Finance Business Partnering Teams and Finance Military Operations.


Management Information and Ad hoc Reporting team are expected to produce bespoke analysis and information above the regular reporting outputs to support business areas, FBPs and the SLT on decision making. The team will also develop new tools and reports that can be implemented into BAU working practices.


This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

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Job description

Management Information and Adhoc Reporting team is responsible for delivering bespoke MI for Senior Leadership and Budget Holders, where standard reports do not meet the requirement. You will produce accurate, timely, high-quality reports and insightful management information to FBPs and their Business areas. Supporting Finance Operations, providing guidance and upskilling on exploiting the corporate systems and seeking to continuously improve standard reports.


You will also need to be a strong communicator, be able to explain outputs to a variety of stakeholders at multiple levels of the organisation, and work with others across the TLB Finance Function to ensure provision of a high-quality and efficient service.


Typical responsibilities include but are not limited to:


Providing services as the Subject Matter Expert

Ensuring all business areas have adequate support, monitoring against the agreed service provision and checking that the boundaries of responsibilities are clear and being maintained. Understanding future requirements, anticipating, and planning for peaks in activity or changes in requirements, considering and adopting the appropriate mitigation, as required. Managing the provision of bespoke MI for the Finance Leadership team, Finance workforce and Budget Holders, where standard reports do not meet the requirements, ensuring delivery of prompt, accurate reports, that translate data into meaningful outputs. Building a team of super users and providing guidance on exploitation of the MOD corporate systems, working with Finance Operations to understand how best to utilise the current capability, maximise efficiency and provide a single version of the truth. Undertaking the management of:

o Providing advice, guidance, and production of MI to meet the business needs drawing on reliable data sources including relevant financial and non-financial information.


o Verifying information sources are reliable and if using various data or information sources to provide a single output ensuring that these are complementary and coherent.


o Production of bespoke reports or dashboards, ensuring this provides current information and where relevant outlines the point at which the information becomes redundant.


Stakeholder engagement and collaboration

Leading engagement with Strategic Head Office in the provision of information and where required preparing Finance. Managing the provision of information to the Finance workforce when changes are required to align to upgrades / alterations in the MOD corporate systems including nominating individuals to feed in at working level. Seeking alignment, where appropriate, to enable operating effectively and coherently with other organisations. Supporting planning to ensure that corporate system changes that impact your organisation are effectively integrated, taking an adopt not adapt approach, to maximise corporate system benefits. This includes identifying early interventions and ensuring changes are effectively managed and communicated to minimise the disruption. Building and maintaining effective working relationships with Finance Business Partners to enable an understanding of gaps in the standard reporting and identifying when a legitimate requirement for bespoke MI is apparent. Building effective working relationships with the other specialists within Strategic Head Office and other organisations. Overseeing the following engagement undertaken by your team:

o Providing instructions and guidance to the Finance Operations teams on their use of the systems, providing informal training when required.


o Optimising use of Strategic Head Office for advice, ensuring the use of available super user training.


Continuous improvement

Dedicating time to sharing best practice and lessons learnt, encouraging your team to collaborate across MOD to solve common issues, ensuring adherence to MOD standards. Seeking feedback on the services provided, testing, and evaluating their effectiveness, whilst assessing the level of effort to deliver against the benefit received. Continuously strive to improve the service provision, promptly addressing issues and ensuring that processes or ways of working are adapted, and customers are informed where there is an impact. Ensure misinterpretation of guidance is shared in a timely manner with team members to promote embedding any lesson(s) learnt. Managing the input and support to change programmes, where there is an impact to how your team will provide their services.

Managing your team within Ad Hoc MI and Reporting

Management of team members, empowering, motivating and coaching to enable effective delivery. Supporting individual's personal development, careers and developing leadership skills within their team. Ensuring you and the team make time to develop themselves and their peers. 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.

Making all major decisions affecting direction and execution of work within the area of responsibility, referring upwards where decisions relate to significant issues of policy, resource allocation or management of work area



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Person specification

Essential

An excellent leader and manager, who will empower their team to deliver whilst providing support and guidance to develop them, you will lead colleagues across Finance and the Service Directorates through significant change to ways of working, process re-engineering, automation, training and tooling. Significant Experience in a Finance environment with an ability to understand and interpret complex business and financial requirements and management information. A strong communicator, with the ability to discuss with various stakeholders, from finance and non-finance functions

Desirable

An understanding of how MOD / Strategic Command Strategic operates given the breadth and diversity and its highly delegated model. Experience of Agile Delivery and Scrum. An excellent ability to balance a range of competing priorities drawing on good judgement, initiative and able to coordinate the team accordingly. A self-starter capable of working independently from high-level strategic direction. Strong written and oral briefing skills. ###

Behaviours

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


Leadership Making Effective Decisions Managing a Quality Service

Benefits

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Alongside your salary of 44,590, Ministry of Defence contributes 12,917 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Some of the many benefits you will receive:

Highly competitive pension scheme. Flexi-time scheme upon completion of six months service or the Line Manager has the ability to adopt flexible working sooner than the 6 month period. With Line Manager agreement move to an alternative Working Patterns (there are nine). 25 days paid annual leave rising (one day per year) to 30 days upon completion of five years' service. If by chance you have previously completed service in the Public Sector in the past five years, you may be eligible to request 30 days leave immediately. (Evidence will be required). In addition to annual leave you will be entitled to eight Public Bank Holidays per year. Professional and Personal Development of skills with the opportunity to undergo an Apprenticeship in Human Resources. Opportunity to join more than one of our many networks (Race, LGBT+, Gender, Disability and Faith & Belief). Minimum of 18 Days Special Paid Leave in a rolling 12-month period for Public Duties commitments (such as a Magistrate). Special Paid Leave for community volunteering up to 12 days a year for Special Constables and six days a year for other volunteering. Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave. Other facilities are Sports & Social facilities and a Gym complex, as well as onsite Mess & Retail shops. Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.


The post does not offer relocation expenses.


External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.

Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed.


Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.


Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.


The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.


MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey - We may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Policy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.
At

sift

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Experience

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A Personal Statement (no more than 750 words) explaining how your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role. A CV setting out your career history, qualification details, experience with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.

The CV and Personal Statement will be assessed at sift and are weighted equally in their scoring, so it's important to consider this when uploading your application. Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.


At

sift and

interview

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Behaviour

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Leadership Making Effective Decisions Managing a Quality Service

When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.


The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk. As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn


Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Command's transformation programme is committed to following the MOD's framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Command's personnel and Trade Unions.


The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.


The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero-tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.###

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .



See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.###

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:


UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements
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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.



We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.###

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

Name : Nahim Ahmed Email : Nahim.Ahmed106@mod.gov.uk
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Recruitment team

Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk ###

Further information

Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email: info@csc.gov.uk.