Job Description

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Reference number

413059
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Salary

44,590
Position attracts an Recruitment and Retention Allowance of 3250 and an Accountancy qualification allowance to candidates with full CCAB.


London locations may attract an allowance of 3,300 per annum.
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

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 Reporting (Consolidation) team sit at the heart of the finance function and are the link between Strategic Finance centre, business areas and finance business partners, ensuring that requirements, submissions and instructions are fit for purpose for all stakeholders. The team supports the senior leadership team by summarising all activities and providing higher level insight to aid decision making.


This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

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Job description

Management Reporting are expected to produce the monthly financial reports to meet their business area(s) and Finance Business Partner's needs. Ensuring that financial reporting is accurately completed both within corporate reporting systems and for input of accounting entries to support decision making. Typical responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Providing insight to the Business, Finance Leadership Team, and wider Finance teams

Providing the consolidated financial position at various levels within the organisation. Utilising information obtained from Finance Business Partner reviews to provide a draft of commentary, subject to the relevant endorsement. Producing standardised reports / dashboards for monthly financial reviews and ABC screenings along with supplementary information to the FBP and FLT as appropriate.

Optimising Performance

Enabling self service capabilities where possible, allowing individuals access to information without any intervention. Although team members may support specific Business area(s), all team members will be expected to be flexible and cover Business areas as required.

Routine Requirements

Producing instructions for completion of both IYM and ABC, outlining agreed internal timelines for completion taking into account Strategic Head Office requirements. Delivering the required information ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and meet the expected standards for:

o Month end activities, ensuring your team utilise the correct accounting entries completed in compliance with relevant internal and wider government policy and a robust audit trail maintained.


o Input of budget profiles into corporate reporting systems, validating these are sufficiently robust to form the baseline for future progress measurement.


o Corporate system input is consistently delivered for your business area(s) for all aspects of ABC and IYM.


o Producing standardised templates / forms for recurring requests, advising what information is required and enabling efficient review, ensuring this aligns to the required policy where applicable.


Financial approvals of low value items, such as working functions, training, and professional subscriptions, supporting your team as required. Ensuring compliance with the relevant processes and policies and that an appropriate procurement route is utilised.

Engaging with the Business where evidence for manual accruals is insufficient and flagging issues, by exception, to the appropriate Finance Business Partner. Ensuring all misbookings are to be corrected at source, removing any need for future manual intervention. Engaging with Project and Commercial staff to resolve any issues and work towards a right first-time input. Establishing and ensuring effective controls are in place to maintain accuracy of data in financial systems and provide assurance on integrity of information on financial systems Reviewing the Chart of Accounts, liaising with other parts of Finance to understand emerging requirements. Ensuring the structure remains current and consistent, verifying new requirements as legitimate. Managing your team to maintain corporate systems access for all Finance Staff.

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. Managing issues highlighted during internal or external audit, engaging relevant stakeholders to enable corrective action. Promptly addressing any misinterpretation of guidance, sharing with team members to promote embedding the lesson(s) learnt.

Delivering your area of responsibility

Management of team members, empowering, motivating and coaching to enable effective delivery. Supporting individual's personal development and careers, 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. Ensuring the team are getting the basics right at the first attempt. 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.



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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

Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB or CIMA, or working towards qualification CCAB, CIMA or equivalent and financial experience over an extended period. 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 Communicating and Influencing Delivering at Pace

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.


During the Application stage, candidates will be assessed against the following behaviours;

Behaviour

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Leadership Delivering at Pace Communicating and Influencing

During the Interview stage, candidates will be assessed against the following behaviours;

Behaviour

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Leadership Delivering at Pace Communicating and Influencing

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

Open to UK nationals only.###

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 .

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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.