About the job
Job summary
The role will be responsible for a wide range of duties that provide interesting and challenging work. Conducting, and ensuring that the Business Manager delivers the BLBs operational objectives efficiently and effectively. Delivering high performing business management services, briefing stakeholders, supporting with provision of resource, both people and financial, management of information, reporting and undertaking audit and assurance activities to govern the Directorate/HLB/BLB position with business operations outputs and associated activity service across the Directorate/HLB/BLB.
This role is an exciting opportunity that exposes the post holder to work across the BLB as well as exposure to senior leaders and stakeholders along with developmental opportunities.
This role attracts London allowance.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job description
* Delivering In-Year financial management, ensuring that activity spend is monitored and recorded against Control Totals via the form of monthly forecasting.
* Review actuals to update forecast, providing commentary of variance analysis for submission to UKStratCom TLB Finance and Strategic Command Business Manager.
* Completion of the BLB's ARAc submissions to specified deadlines and assist with any financial responses to NAO audit enquiries.
* Support the preparation and submission of BLB ABC return.
* Provide evidence based forward program costing, efficiencies, savings and enhancements.
* Assist Budget Holder with business case affordability reviews when requested.
* Using the forecast as the base for reviews and ensuring the request is submitted via the correct approval channels.
* Provide advice on Business Management matters to business areas and wider stakeholders.
* Provide Financial Data in support of Finance Business Partner led meetings.
* Liaison with the SEO, business operations team and HLB business units to enable the delivery of business services.
* Developing and facilitate a HLB Community to share best practice and provide a routeways for support.
* Establish and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with colleagues and business areas across the department, setting the standard and benchmark to achieve consistency, coherence, resource efficiency and situational awareness.
* Provide information and analysis of Business Management MI.
* Develop the tooling and mechanisms to provide the G7/SEO with information and data to provide visibility and a clear overview of HLB activity via management information across the HLB to allow effective decisions about work prioritisation and resource allocation.
* Provide accurate records and reporting against delegated activities.
* Maintain and ensure process and systems for Business Operation Management Information is updated and maintained to enable reports created to support decisions making for finance, workforce, planning and extracting providing information to a range of Business areas.
Person specification
Functional Competencies
Level
Essential/Desirable
* IT Skills: Intermediate (Essential)
* Business Administration Experience: Intermediate (Essential)
* Mod Finance: Understanding (Desirable)
* Workforce administration policy and procedure: Awareness (Desirable)
* In-Year Financial Management: Understanding (Essential)
* ACCA/CIPFA/CIMA: Part or fully qualified (Desirable)
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Leadership
* Making Effective Decisions
* Communicating and Influencing
* Managing a Quality Service
* Delivering at Pace
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
* Leadership
* Making Effective Decisions
* Communicating and Influencing
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £36,530, the Ministry of Defence contributes £10,582 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
* Highly competitive pension scheme.
* Flexi-time scheme upon completion of 6 months service or the Line Manager has the ability to adopt flexible working sooner than the 6 month period.
* With Line Manager agreement, move to an alternative Working Patterns (there are 9).
* 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service. If by chance you have previously completed service in the Public Sector in the past 5 years, you may be eligible to request 30 days leave immediately. (Evidence will be required).
* In addition to annual leave, you will be entitled to 8 Public Bank Holidays per year.
* Professional and Personal Development of skills with the opportunity to undergo an Apprenticeship in Human Resources.
* Opportunity to join more than one of our many networks (Race, LGBT+, Gender, Disability and Faith & Belief).
* Special Paid Leave for community volunteering up to 12 days a year for Special Constables and 6 days a year for other volunteering.
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 19th February 2025. For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below. #J-18808-Ljbffr