Cash Analyst (Finance Apprenticeship)

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, HM Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK.

Fiscal Statistics and Policy is a team of analysts and policy professionals, that plays a key role at the centre of the Treasury’s policymaking! We closely supervise public finances and produce risk, forecasting and scenario analysis on the fiscal position. We also provide advice to the Chancellor on the fiscal framework, and work very closely with other HM Treasury teams on the fiscal policy judgement at each fiscal event. We are a friendly team who are proud of our diversity!

About the role

Our Cash Analyst role sits on the statistics side of the team. It is analytically focussed and a fundamental starting point for management information around the government’s cash position, and thus the fiscal position. You will be working with a smorgasbord of statisticians, economists, accountants, and policy advisors – you’ll have the opportunity to learn a lot from each of these vocations!

This role involves a lot of data and working with City Financials application to turn this rich dataset into management information, and published government statistics. You will receive whatever training and development you need to succeed.

Key Accountabilities for this role include:

• Maintain key spreadsheets and trackers, providing advice and analysis on cash requirement data. This will involve working closely with the team who lead the accounting database and integrating and quality assuring financial and accounting data from different sources.
• Monitor, communicate and present tax receipts and the government’s cash requirement throughout each month, particularly around peak tax periods.
• Reconcile, clean and aggregate from multiple datasets to provide a well-rounded view of government’s cash needs, both from a tax & spend point-of-view but also how government finances the gap between them.
• Provide outputs based on the above to the Office for National Statistics for inclusion in the monthly Public Sector Finances bulletin.
• Produce ad-hoc data analysis and presentations in response to internal and external queries and as the need arises to improve your data quality and production processes.
• Take ownership for your learning and development under the apprenticeship.  

About you

The successful applicant will undertake a Level 4 Professional Accounting / Taxation apprenticeship as part of this role, and therefore you will need to be eligible for this to be considered for the post. Full details for the apprenticeship standard can be found in the link.

As part of this, you will be required to evidence the below existing qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 GCSE’s at Grade C/4 or above (or equivalent qualification)
• Equivalent of Level 2 Maths and English (GCSE Grade C/4 or above) 4

If you already hold an equivalent or higher professional accounting qualification, you will not be eligible for the apprenticeship, therefore not eligible for the post. For more details about eligibility for the funding, please review the apprenticeship funding rules.

About us

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status. 

Some of the Benefits our people love! 

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month 
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) 
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages 
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 27% 
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances  
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network) 

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link. 

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk