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 Government Finance Function Skills & Capability Lead 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: Build understanding and insight around the key skills requirements for the finance function and highlight areas of strength and weakness – by using external benchmarks, research from professional bodies and internal insights from departments. Provide analysis to show where we need to invest to build skills across the function and use this analysis to help define future learning and development requirements. Support design and delivery across a full range of finance L&D interventions and ensure key topics and themes are prioritised for Face to Face and Virtual learning interventions. Lead the skills elements of the development of the GFF Learning and Development strategy, undertaking independent research on best practice from across Government and Private Sector and embedding good examples. This role provides an excellent opportunity to work across Government and professional boundaries to provide a single point of contact for capturing insights about finance skills in and out of government, and then to use this to develop the Government Finance Academy curriculum, our capability offer for all GFF staff and our approach to developing new skills across the finance community. 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 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 hrrecruitmenthmtreasury.gov.uk