This is a challenging leadership position that will play a key role in the Army’s ambitious modernisation programme. The main responsibilities will include:
Providing services as a Scrutiny and Approvals Subject Matter Expert:
Provide advice and guidance to business areas across the Army on the construction of Business Cases and Investment Appraisals.
Undertaking the financial scrutiny of complex or high value Business Cases and Investment Appraisals, in support of the Finance Leadership Team and investment approvals committees.
Understanding future requirements, anticipating, and planning for peaks in activity or changes in requirements, considering and adopting the appropriate mitigations.
Clearly explaining the rationale for processes, ensuring that complex aspects are understood by all stakeholders and that benefits are highlighted to support compliance and meet the required standards.
Stakeholder engagement and collaboration:
Providing support to the Army Director Resources, as chair of the Army Investment Committee, ensuring key financial aspects are highlighted where required in advance of committees being held.
Providing secretariat support to the Army Investment Committee, ensuring the required information is available in a timely manner and disseminating the outcome from the committee.
Engaging and collaboratively working with Army Finance Business Partners, communicating on key aspects of financial scrutiny and approval activity in support of their area(s) of responsibility.
Building and maintaining effective working relationships with the specialists within other MOD organisations and Strategic Finance Investment Appraisals (SFIA) in MOD Head Office.
Ensuring timely and complete submissions to approvals committees whilst remaining aligned on specified content, formatting, and guidance.
Continuous improvement:
Dedicating time to sharing best practice and lessons learnt, encouraging your team to collaborate across MOD to solve common issues, ensuring adherence to MOD standards.
Seeking feedback on the services provided, testing, and evaluating their effectiveness, whilst assessing the level of effort to deliver against the benefit received.
Continuously striving to improve the service provision, promptly addressing issues and ensuring that processes or ways of working are adapted, and customers are informed where there is an impact.
Managing the input and support to wider Army and MOD change programmes.