Director of Strategic Finance and Director of Finance Business Partnering

Job summary

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

The RolesDirector of Strategic Finance You will lead the development of our long-term financial strategy and hold the institutional relationship with HM Treasury. You will ensure our financial planning processes are robust, credible and aligned with ministerial priorities. This post will also take responsibility for some business partnering functions including MoJ Headquarters. Director of Finance Business Partnering You will be central to linking operational decision-making with the Department’s wider financial framework, including in HM Prisons and Probation, helping ensure resources are used to maximum effect. Key Responsibilities Both role holders will:

• Provide strategic leadership to the MoJ finance function alongside the Director for Financial Management and Control, creating a strong cultural identity, driving cohesion and collaboration across the MoJ Finance Function, empowering staff, promoting accountability and the autonomy to deliver internal and external objectives
• Ensure that all financial activity meets the standards of set out in Managing Public Money.
• Act as a trusted adviser to ministers, the Permanent Secretary, and senior officials, shaping financial choices and trade-offs across competing priorities.
• Strengthen financial capability across the Department through effective workforce planning, professional development and talent management.
• Represent MoJ Finance in cross-government finance networks, building collaborative relationships with HM Treasury, Cabinet Office and other departments.
• Inspire staff through exemplifying the organisation's values as part of the senior leadership team, driving staff engagement and promotion inclusion and diversity.
• Ensure that the department's medium and long-term financial plan reflects our priorities, represents good value for money and enables delivery of our outcomes.
• Work closely with operational leaders and the Executive team to identify efficiencies, manage risks, and inform investment decisions that support public safety and rehabilitation outcomes.
• Provide data-led and insight-driven finance business partnering to Directors General and CEOs on the development and implementation of priorities, commercial and policy decisions and the delivery of change programmes.
• Lead an effective challenge function to improve operational delivery and sustainability and strong relationships with functional leads across the department to provide a joined-up set of services to operational leaders.
• Ensure the effective delivery and value for money of the Department's major programmes and contracts and providing high quality Accounting Officer Advice to agency Accounting Officers and the Principal Accounting Officer.

Essential criteriaDirector of Strategic Finance Demonstrable experience of leading organisation-wide financial strategy and medium- to long-term financial planning in a complex system, including developing credible, evidence-led financial positions and securing agreement with senior funding bodies, commissioners or external partners to align resources with priorities and long-term sustainability. Director of Finance Business Partnering Proven experience of leading finance teams in large-scale, operational delivery environments of significant complexity, combining strategic insight with hands-on delivery leadership to support senior leaders to manage performance, address delivery risks, and drive sustained improvement in outcomes across complex systems. Both roles

• Excellent financial and analytical skills, with credibility across all aspects of finance and experience apply sound judgement to complex financial, performance and value-for-money decisions in large, complex organisations.
• Ability to influence and make an impact credibly at senior levels and with ministers through excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including building and maintaining broad diverse networks and relationships, especially across organisations and systems.
• Strong analytical curiosity and challenge mindset using financial and wider performance analysis to promote transparency, challenge the status quo to reduce system costs.
• A proven track record of excellent leadership as part of a senior management team with an ability to build capability, develop people and lead high-performing diverse teams.
• The ability to translate complex and dynamic political priorities into clear direction, maintaining momentum and delivery focus in fast-pace, ambiguous and evolving contexts.
• Full CCAB, CIMA, or equivalent professional accountancy qualification.

Person specification

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Diversity & 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.

For full details about the Role, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification, please download and review the Candidate Information pack

Memberships

Full CCAB, CIMA, or equivalent professional accountancy qualification.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £100,000, Ministry of Justice contributes £28,970 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Access to learning and development
• A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave
• Public Holidays
• Season Ticket Advance

For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.

Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

For full details of the Selection Process and Recruitment Timeline, please view the Candidate Information pack.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

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 (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).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) (opens in a new window)
• 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

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).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 theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment Team
• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : scsrecruitment@justice.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitm…

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