About the job

Job summary

The Ministry of Defence employs over 50,000 Civil Servants. Within that, the Army Top Level Budget (TLB) employs around 7,000 MOD Civil Servants located at over 300 locations. Ours is a diverse workforce, with roles ranging from trainers, human resources, teachers, and psychologists to storekeepers, financiers, project and programme managers, and policy secretariat staff. There are many different functions and professions delivering key outputs for the Army. 

The Land Warfare Centre (LWC) Business Centre is looking for a motivated and driven individual to join the Performance Management Team. 

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a small team of civilians responsible for the Performance and Contract Management of a diverse portfolio of contracts. 

This role will initially be involved in those contracts that provide support across the entire training pipeline, from which training establishments can demand role players (RPs) to simulate realistic scenarios using a variety of different role player types of different nationalities and ethnic back grounds including other nations/allied forces.  As a key team member working alongside military and civilian personnel, you will play a pivotal role in monitoring contract performance to support the delivery of Individual and Collective training.

 The post is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The role will provide the job holder with excellent career development opportunities in a busy working environment, working closely with key stakeholder areas both internal and external, forming effective relationships, influencing decision making, providing support and advice, scrutiny, and analysis in order to support LWC objectives.

Key responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

• Monitor financial performance of the contract.
• Process customer demand orders.
• Undertake financial forecasting.
• Scrutinising and processing invoice payments.
• Supporting the customer feedback process through collecting and analysing contractor performance data.
• Hold contractors to account.
• Undertake audit and assurance of services delivered, ensuring value for money is achieved (some occasional travel / overnight stays may be required).
• Line management responsibility for 1 x Administrative Officer (AO).
• Assume the responsibilities of the Higher Executive Officer (HEO) during periods of leave or absence.

Does this sound of interest to you.  We actively encourage and welcome enquiries about the post.

Person specification

We are looking for someone that has experience of finance practices / procedures such as a budget manager or similar role.

Applicants need to be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite in particular Excel. 

Proficiency in additional specialist MOD software applications will be required but training will be given.

The position holder should be a great teammate with strong communication skills to engage effectively and establish strong links with internal and external stakeholders.

The Personal Statement should provide evidence of the previous knowledge of finance / admin experience.

The MOD Financial Skills Certificate is to be obtained within 6 months of taking up the post. There will opportunities to take up an apprenticeship, e.g. Association of Accounting Technician (AAT).

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £28,300, Ministry of Defence contributes £7,641 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Interviews will take place at Warminster on a date to be confirmed in Jun 24. A minimum of 3 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews. We will endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.

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

The post does not offer relocation expenses.

Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly.

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

We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender and ethnic group. Appointment will be based on merit alone.

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 into 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.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and 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.

At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

· Delivering at Pace

At interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours:

· Delivering at Pace

· Communicating and Influencing

· Managing a Quality Service

Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability (500 words)

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

Security

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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) 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 (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.