About the job

Job summary

DIO’s finance function aims to provide best in class financial management, reporting and advice to a range of stakeholders across the MOD, ensuring value for money for the taxpayer in how the Department’s Infrastructure Portfolio is delivered.

DIO Finance operates a flexible working model whereby individuals may be required to transfer to another role. This may be in response to critical vacancies or for the individual’s personal development. These moves will not require a change to an individual’s duty station.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The Soft FM and Private Finance Initiative teams are responsible for financial management for both Resource and Capital expenditure, leading and supporting in the management of key finance processes, including In-Year Management, the Annual Budgeting Cycle and Approvals, as well as management of risk and change. Also providing Total Facilities Management (TFM) business partnering services to the relevant DIO Regional Delivery team. 
The teams are responsible for supporting future contract provision.

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
• Strong communicator, able to communicate at all levels and excellent presentation skills
• Experience in leading and/or influencing organisational change
• Ability to work flexible and adapt to changing priorities
• 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.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,670, Ministry of Defence contributes £15,570 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, Experience and Technical skills.

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, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.

Sift to take place within 2 weeks of advert close.

Applications will be sifted on all Success Profile elements, but in the event of a high number of applications, an initial sift will be conducted on the lead Behaviour: Leadership

In this instance the remaining elements will be tested at interview

At application you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours: Leadership, Communicating & Influencing, Making Effective Decisions

Experience:  CV and personal statement (750 Words)

Qualification: Qualified with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent with financial experience over an extended period.   

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

Behaviours: Leadership, Communicating & Influencing, Making Effective Decisions, Change & Improving, Delivering at Pace

Technical: Finance Functional Competence: Financial Planning 

                 Finance Functional Competence: In Year Management

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

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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.