Finance Profession Lead for Government Finance

Are you looking for an exciting key role identifying and defining the skills required across the finance function, utilising insight from sources across the team and shaping our learning and development offer and ensuring the offer reaches our intended audience in an engaging and impactful way? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

We are looking to recruit a Finance Profession Lead for Government Finance which sits in the People and Capability team within the Public Spending Group The Public Spending Group is a high-profile and rewarding place to work. We help the Chancellor decide what to spend £1.2trillion a year on and ensure government delivers 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 make sure value for money is at the centre of decision-making through better evaluation, data and analysis.

The GFF ensures that finance is at the heart of decision making in Government – delivering value for money, strengthening public trust. The Finance Function comprises of over 10,500 FTE spread across 39 Government organisations. The Function needs to move at pace to make further progress towards its vision and the decision has been taken to strengthen and formalise the functional centre for the Government Finance Function, aligned to the Civil Service Functional Leadership model.

We collaborate with and directly support departments to deliver the Government Finance Function strategy, building finance, debt and risk capability across government and developing the management information, tools and frameworks to better understand and ensure value for money, in order to develop a successful, capable and diverse "Function for the future", with phenomenal people in the right roles with the right skills.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Lead the development and delivery of the Finance Professional Development offer across the Civil Service Provide expert oversight of GFF professional training schemes
• Oversight, development and delivery of the Finance Fast Stream offer
• Ensuring the Finance Fast Stream is fit for purpose at all stages
• Lead development and delivery of the Finance Apprenticeship offer for the function
• Create and maintain professional communities to support professional development including events for Fast Stream, Apprentices, Senior Leaders and other groups.

Success in this role will require you to work across Departmental boundaries as a trusted partner, utilising your professional skills and experiences to build a strong network across internal and external partners at all levels, including with Professional Institutes and HMT technical teams. You will use these relationships together with your own skills and experience to identify capability needs and promote finance professionalism to support GFF priorities and growth of the finance function.

About You

The successful candidate will possess confident and effective communication skills both orally and in writing, with people within and outside the GFF. You will have experience working in learning / L&D and a passion for building skills and capability across government with an understanding of Civil Service Learning Frameworks desirable. You’ll have strong organisational and customer management skills with the ability to work effectively with wide range of customers across boundaries, making connections and bringing people along with you. A strong team player with the ability to work flexibly across a demanding but rewarding team. Lastly you will have strong research and analysis skills including the ability to present data insights with impact.

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 28%
• 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