About the job

Job summary

This position is based nationally

Job description

Grade: SEO

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer) 

Salary: London: £45,824 - £50,039; National: £39,868 - £43,535 

Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Vacancy number: 89017 

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Digital Finance Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team. 

The Digital Finance Team, as part of wider Strategy & Operations, works closely with stakeholders from right across Justice Digital, and the Finance and Commercial Professions, to support and assure spending activities across Justice Digital. It strives to deliver a streamlined, effective, and insightful approach to financial decision-making that adds value for delivery teams. 

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025 

Key Responsibilities:

The Digital Finance Manager will be responsible for: 

• Improving financial management and governance in D&T.
• Building and continually improving financial processes and reports.
• Working as part of a great team of Digital Finance Managers and Analysts, managing the Analysts in their area, where applicable. 

More specifically this means: 

Improving financial management and governance in D&T: 

• Work with colleagues in your portfolio areas and the finance function to build and inform realistic and well-understood financial forecasts.
• Provide meaningful and accurate financial reporting, analysis and insights to help colleagues make well-informed decisions.
• Support colleagues in meeting their budgets and savings targets by identifying savings opportunities and anticipating potential overspend.
• Work with colleagues to resolve issues relating to budgets, purchase orders and invoices.
• Work with colleagues to track financial benefits agreed in business cases and plans.
• Promote the benefits of good financial management within D&T. 

Creating, delivering and continually improving robust financial processes and reports: 

• In line with wider D&T strategy, manage the design and development of financial processes for a specific area of D&T including;
  • Purchase-to-pay process, working with colleagues from finance and commercial functions;
  • Creating, tracking, managing and closing Purchase Orders.
  • Working with budget holders and other colleagues to deal with the receipt and the release of payments to third party suppliers.
  • Communicating with budget holders and third-party suppliers around payment schedules, escalating where appropriate.
  • Cross-charging to other government departments or business areas, working with colleagues from the finance function;
• Build and continually improve financial reports, performance dashboards and scorecards. 

Working as part of a great team of Digital Finance Managers and Analysts, managing the analysts in their area: 

• Recruit, manage and motivate a team of capable Digital Finance Analysts.
• Develop individual, and team capabilities, driving great performance, and embedding D&T values and behaviours.
• Contribute to setting wider team goals and objectives, ensuring alignment with D&T priorities. 

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply! 

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym. 

Person Specification

Essential 

• Has worked with and analysed complex budgets or data sets, preferably IT budgets, and those that involve spend with suppliers.
• Has built and produced finance processes, reports and dashboards.
• Is able to draw conclusions from, and make recommendations based on, numbers and data.
• Is comfortable presenting to, and making recommendations to, colleagues and stakeholders.
• Enjoys bringing people from different teams or groups together to deliver a common objective. 

Willingness to be assessed against  the requirements for BPSS clearance 

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 D&I Strategy.

Person specification

Please refer to attached Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £39,868, Ministry of Justice contributes £10,804 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

Candidates must submit a CV and Personal Statement (up to 750 words), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. 

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process: 

• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together 

A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above. 

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference. 

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application. 

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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

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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.