Group Business Manager - Fta

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to form effective relationships, guiding and supervising group management support to help deliver group priorities? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

We are looking to recruit a Group Business Manager to cover a period of parental leave which sits within the Public Spending Group’s Group Management Services. The Public Spending Group has a high-profile role in Government, setting the Government’s overall spending plans and ensuring they deliver value for money for the taxpayer. We are responsible for reporting to Parliament and the public on how taxpayers’ money is spent. We drive forward improved outcomes and efficiency in public services and enhance the value for money of decision-making through better evaluation, data, and analysis.

We advise on overall government policy on public sector pay and pensions, the biggest single driver of public spending. We collaborate with and directly support departments to deliver the Government Finance Function strategy, building finance capability across government and developing the management information, tools, and frameworks to better understand and ensure value for money.

The Public Spending GMS is a friendly and welcoming team that supports the Public Spending Group’s two directors and 12 deputy directors to deliver the group’s objectives to control and report on public spending, improve value for money and efficiency and work across Whitehall to improve Government Finance and Management Information capability.

The team is led by 2 HEOs: the Group Business Manager and the GMS Manager and includes 5 PAs. Together the team supports the Directors and Deputy Directors, manages group processes like moderation and business planning and supports group corporate activities.

About the Job

The responsibility of the Group Business manager is to guide and supervise group management support within the Public Spending Group. You will work very closely with the group’s Directors and Deputy Directors to help deliver on group priorities, including by:

• Managing group moderation processes
• Serving as the secretariat for Group Management Team meetings, including planning agendas and implementing actions
• Understanding and presenting group management information data to group management and overseeing directorate finance and workforce planning
• Seeking the continuous improvement of directorate systems and processes
• Drafting briefings for key corporate meetings, overseeing corporate workstreams, and managing logistics and content strategy for away days
• Line managing two GMS staff and work closely with the GMS Manager to provide matrix management of the whole GMS team.

About You

The successful candidate will be able to form effective relationships and be trusted by senior leaders. You will be able to interpret information from multiple sources and use it to make clear recommendations to decision-makers. You’ll be able to prioritise a busy agenda and to support others to do the same.

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