Head Of Finance Projects

Our client, a member of the UKs intelligence service, requires a new Head of Finance to

Advantageous candidate experience:

• Essential: CCAB or equivalent membership
• Experience with Business Case Reviews (reviewing investment cases)
• Government Accounting experience (“green book accounting”)
• Experience of advising and guiding business decisions and frameworks in order to ensure compliance, manage risk and support governance arrangements.
• Extensive experience in:

• Financial Management & Planning in complex organisation
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Management Reporting
• Providing Financial Management Advice and developing Mitigating Strategies
• Supporting the production of business cases, including carrying out investment appraisals, in accordance with HMT’s Green book
• Providing finance support to both Waterfall and Agile Projects and Programmes

Responsibilities:

• Partnering existing and emerging Change and DDaT projects and programmes, including supporting the production of business cases; and providing financial assurance and advice;
• Driving improvements in financial reporting for both individual projects and programmes and the Change and DDaT Portfolios to support strategic decision making
• Building strong relationships with the Capability Leads, Project and Programme Teams and external stakeholders to influence and deliver value to the Network
• Maintaining a budgetary control environment and process, with a particular focus on projects and programmes, ensuring that effective control is exercised through focused and proportionate effort
• Provide objective strategic and tactical financial advice and opinions that positively impact the future investment choices made by the team
• Identify and drive financial efficiency, ensuring that resources are allocated effectively with rigorous pressure on costs and a commitment to a value for money approach and improvements in operational delivery
• Working collaboratively with all business Pillars eg the Human Resources function (in support of workforce planning), Strategy Planning and Performance, Change, Technology, Data, Commercial etc and National Business Managers
• Working closely with commercial to ensure value for money, financial accountability for contracts, supporting the production of investment appraisals and addressing governance issues
• Attending meetings as appropriate with the company Executive, Pillar Leads and Project and Programme Leads to understand costs, risk, demand as well as supporting the production of business cases and funding bids
• Providing leadership, direction and management of a small team to support the objectives of Strategic Finance

Please note: candidates will need to satisfy security criteria.