About the job

Job summary

The Army has 8,000 civil servants in 300 locations and The British Army comprises of 112,000 experienced, committed and highly skilled Regular and Reserve soldiers. The British Army protects the United Kingdom’s interests at home and abroad, providing a safe and secure environment and is supported by the civilian workforce. The Director Resources is responsible for planning and leading the Army Top Level Budget (TLB) and ensuring that decisions at the highest level of the Army are taken with full understanding of their financial implications. We will provide you with an exciting and worthwhile career supporting the Armed Services and will actively encourage and support further training and development. This position provides the challenge and the opportunity to shape the current and future needs of Infrastructure for Army and pan Defence Training capability.  Reporting to Army Director Resources and embedded within Director Basing & Infrastructure (D B&I) you will have the opportunity to help shape and deliver a living and working environment fit for a winning Army and the society we serve.  As part of the Infrastructure Finance Team, you will be responsible for financially managing Infrastructure Capital Investment of £6Bn over 10 years and over £1Bn each year maintaining and developing the Army’s Estate in pursuit of its strategic objectives. We are currently recruiting for an experienced finance individual to manage the delivery of the Infrastructure Plans Financial Operations, ensuring that Financial Operations is effective and complementary of other finance processes. The post-holder's technical knowledge, insight, and ability to work constructively with people at all grades will make them a valued contributor to the decision-making process and a champion for change. The post-holder will need to establish and develop effective working relationships with contributing teams and individuals across the Army and Defence Infrastructure Organisation. This position is advertised at 37 hours per week. You will be required to work at Army HQ, Andover at least 3 days per week.

Please be advised that the Army is conducting a review of its current Finance and HR Operating Models. At the time of advertisement this post is deemed to have an enduring requirement and it is not anticipated that this post will be likely to change in the immediate future, however, is in scope of ongoing reviews.

Job description

Management Reporting are expected to produce the monthly financial reports to meet their business area 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 commentary, subject to the relevant endorsement.
• Producing standardised reports / dashboards for monthly financial reviews and Annual Budget Cycle (ABC) (10-year plan) screenings along with supplementary information to the Finance Business Partner and Finance Leadership Team as appropriate.

Routine Requirements

• Delivering the required information ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and meet the expected standards for 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.
• Corporate system input is consistently delivered for your business area.

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.

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.
• 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.

Person specification

• Highly numerate with a record of success in a financial management role with excellent attention to detail and accuracy

• Experience of leading a team with excellent people management skills with the ability to promote team cohesion, adapt to changes and improvements
• Experience in leading and/or influencing organisational change
• Ability to work flexible and adapt to changing priorities
• Strong communicator, able to communicate at all levels and excellent presentation skills
• Ability to develop collaborative relationships with a range of stakeholders and teams

• Highly developed planning and organisational skills in a financial environment and experience of delivery and meeting tight deadlines.

Desirable Skills:

• Level 4 qualification in accounting such as Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) or Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB)/Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) or a willingness to undertake such training.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,631 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.

Please note that it is essential that your personal statement is aligned to provide evidence that you have the knowledge and recent practical experience for each of the following selection criteria in your application:

A 500-word statement of suitability and CV will be required for this position; this cannot be uploaded to the advert. You will submit using the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard, detailing job history, full qualifications, previous experience, and skills. Job-share will only be considered provided full time hours can be covered.

At application you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours:

Leadership

Making Effective Decisions

Communicating and Influencing

At interview you will be assessed against the above along with the following:

Behaviours:

Changing and Improving

Delivering at Pace

 

Application sifting will be scheduled to take place within 5 working days of the application closing date.  

Interview date TBC but location is likely be at Army HQ, Andover. A minimum of 5 full working days’ notice will be provided. We endeavor to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.

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

 

Please present your evidence using the S.T.A.R. format (Situation, Task, Action, Result)

Applicants are strongly advised to ensure that their submission uses the STAR format and demonstrates the behaviours of:

Leadership

Communicating and Influencing

Delivering at Pace

Changing and Improving

Making Effective Decisions

 

Detailed at Level 3 – HEO and SEO or equivalent level in the Civil Service Success Profiles –Civil Service Behaviours booklet. Comprehensive coverage on Success Profiles can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles  

 

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.

 

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

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

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.

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 (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.