Finance Manager (Business Partnering or Control)
- Employer
- National Crime Agency.
- Location
- Belfast, Bristol, Warrington
- Salary
- £45,480
- Closing date
- 18 Oct 2021
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- Clearance Level
- SC, None / Undisclosed
- Sector
- Banking, Consultancy, Management / Executive, Policing
- Job Type
- Permanent
Job Details
Would you like the opportunity to contribute to the fight against serious and organised crime?
NCA officers work at the forefront of law enforcement, building the best possible intelligence picture of serious and organised crime threats; relentlessly pursuing the most serious and dangerous offenders; and developing and delivering specialist capabilities on behalf of law enforcement.
As a member of the finance team you will be supporting the agency in protecting the public from serious and organised crime. We are looking for finance professionals to take on roles in Finance Business Partnering and Finance Control.
Job description
As a Finance Business Partner you will have a key role in supporting individual business areas in financial governance and management, ensuring that budgets are well constructed, managed and monitored and supporting senior managers in the production of business cases and plans to deliver improved performance, reduced risk and better value for money.
In Financial Control you will advise management across the business up to board level, on all aspects of the day-to-day financial control within the NCA, providing them with expert financial advice and insight.
The role also oversees the maintenance and development of the NCA Financial Applications including training and awareness for users and all elements of transactional reporting.
Responsibilities
Main responsibilities:
• Manage a team within Finance Business Partnering or Financial control, supporting the business through policy development, planning, performance, service delivery and governance.
• Support senior management in the delivery of an effective and efficient departmental service deputising where appropriate.
• Provide advice, both written and oral, to non-financial staff, including seniors up to Board level, on all aspects of your team’s work.
• Manage projects, resources, programmes, planning activity to ensure work is completed within agreed timescales/budgets and quality standards, in line with NCA policy.
• Develop and build internal and external partner relations working collaboratively to foster good relations.
• Contribute to the long term financial planning and strategy of the Agency.
• Work with government departments and attend working groups, government committees/meetings (as required).
• Manage the quality, secure handling and dissemination of data/information and develop policy, reports and procedures and manage data systems across business areas.
• Manage the quality of service delivery, business and supplier performance, to ensure continuous improvement in service standards (as required).
• Manage the design, development, planning and delivery of training products to meet learning requirements (as required).
• Manage issues relating to the performance and conduct of officers in line with the NCA values.
• To manage/coach and develop staff.
***All NCA officers must hold SC Enhanced upon entry as a minimum. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years. For more information please see the Candidate information Pack***
Qualifications
The following qualifications/skills are essential to the role and proof will be required at interview:
• At least Part Qualified and working towards full professional accountancy qualification, i.e. CCAB, CIMA, etc or the CIPFA Diploma in Finance Business Partnering. You will be required to provide relevant paperwork.
Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on, are entered on to the CV.
Should you progress to the assessment stage of the process, you will be required to provide a copy of the original certificate.
Failure to provide evidence at interview may result in your application not progressing to the next stage.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Experience of supervision or first line management in a finance business partnering or financial control environment.
- Good technical knowledge of accounting processes, policies, statutory requirements and internal controls
- Strong customer service and stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical and reasoning skills, and the ability to develop financial models
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is SECURITY CHECK
Medical
Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.
Company
Organised crime is one of the gravest threats to national security - blighting communities, ruining lives and costing the UK well over £34 billion every year. Organised crime can feel distant from most peoples’ day to day lives, but it affects us all. From the sexual exploitation of children to the smuggling of illegal firearms, cyber crime, human trafficking and modern slavery - serious and organised crime is everywhere.
The National Crime Agency's role is to protect the public from the most serious threats by disrupting and bringing to justice those serious and organised criminals who present the highest risk to the UK.
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