Deputy Director Head Of Finance For Major Law Enforcement Programmes

This post is within the Public Safety Group of the Home Office (HO) and is part of the Corporate and Delivery finance function. The HO invests in technology and data programmes to transform policing and Law Enforcement. This investment is co-ordinated across HO, the Law Enforcement sector and across government more widely.

This significant portfolio aims to improve the national technology capabilities available to policing, supporting the modernisation of core national systems, enhancing the way forces communicate with each other and Law Enforcement partners to share data, intelligence, information, and evidence. The portfolio consists of:

• Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) providing critical voice and data capability over a commercial network;
• Home Office Biometrics (HOB) - a single platform for fingerprint, facial recognition and DNA;
• Law Enforcement Data Service (LEDS) providing access across policing to national police information as well as sharing intelligence across services;
• National Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Service (NAS) will unite all local ANPR systems into a single national system;
• Child Abuse and Image Database (CAID) where we continue to improve the world-leading capability aimed at combatting child sexual abuse and exploitation;
• A range of other Police & Public Protection Technology (PPPT) programmes which will replace, improve and modernise essential national technology systems.

ESMCP, HOB and LEDS are all on the Government’s Major Projects Portfolio. In this role you will lead the Portfolio’s Programme Finance function and the teams embedded within the politically and technologically complex Law Enforcement Technology Programmes. The over-arching objective is to support the Programme Directors, Senior Responsible Officers (SROs) and executive leadership teams through providing professional advice and challenge and to ensure that decisions are made with reference to financial information and consequences, influencing as needed, so that the wider objectives of the HO can be met.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading all aspects of programme Finance for the Portfolio, including developing the medium-term financial plan, finance business cases, audit support, budgeting, supporting the Programme Director and SRO and advising business and investment boards on all finance issues;
• Ensure the Portfolio has sound financial governance and ensure funding envelopes within existing budgets are utilised to deliver within monetary constraints;
• Leading and maintaining the relationships with HM Treasury, Law Enforcement sector and three emergency services, user organisations, devolved administrations and other government department’s officials at senior levels and leveraging/influencing these relationships to the benefit of the Home Office;
• Provide strategic leadership and insight as part of the programme and HO finance function’s Leadership Teams;
• Ensure integration with the financial management plans of the Department;
• Lead the programmes preparation for key fiscal events including Spending Reviews and the Police Settlement, as well as financial input into key governance events both internally and externally, such as HM Treasury Approval Panels and the Major Projects and Review Group;
• Develop and present financial insight and analysis to various boards and committees in a way that facilitates effective prioritisation and strategic alignment;
• Financial leadership for Major commercial procurements and supplier contracts;
• Continually review the service provided to internal and external customers, seeking feedback and both facilitating and responding to change;
• Leading the finance team and developing their programme finance capabilities to maintain and build a dynamic and positive team culture that can satisfy multiple and often challenging demands;
• Oversee and advise on the high standards of financial compliance expected of those handling public resources, such as Managing Public Money principles;
• Provide sufficient capacity and capability to manage investments effectively as well as to provide a focal point for raising standards on investment management;
• Line management of the finance teams embedded in the portfolio programme teams.