Contents Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information Location Eastbury, East of England, HA6 3HP 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 practise 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. i.e., CP&F delegations, business case registers, contract monitoring. Person specification Functional Competencies Level Essential/Desirable17 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, 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. Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments. Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements. The post does not offer relocation expenses. External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period. Please Note: Expenses incurred for travel to interviews will not be reimbursed. Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts. Any move to MOD from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/. The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment however some exemptions are in place, please refer to local guidance. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments. MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey We may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Policy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights. Things you need to know Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience. A written application containing your experience (a CV and a Statement of Suitability (Personal Statement)) and Behaviours drawn from the Civil Service Success Profiles. Candidates will be required to provide CV details to include job history; qualification details and previous skills and experience. Candidates will be required to provide a statement of suitability. (500 word max) At sift, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours: Leadership Making Effective Decisions Communicating and Influencing At interview, you will be assessed against the following Success Profiles Behaviours: Managing a Quality Service Delivering at Pace Leadership If a large number of applications are received, they will be assessed initially against your CV and Statement of Suitability (Personal Statement). You will then be assessed against the other criteria if you have met the minimum scores. When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected. Behaviours are assessed individually with a 250-word statement. The application form will indicate which behaviour is being assessed. We are looking for evidence using the Situation, Task, Action, Result (STAR) methodology. It is highly recommended you focus by providing one example for each behaviour. We would also advise you to use examples that best meet the criteria, even if they are a few years old, using the STAR methodology. Your experience will be assessed individually through your CV and a Statement of Suitability (Personal Statement). If your written application is successful, you will be invited to a face-to-face and or virtual via MS Teams interview where you will be tested against Behaviours. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3mod.gov.uk. As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came in to effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn. Strategic Command is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to improve the way the Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, all posts within Strategic Command Headquarters and in time the wider organisation, are/will be subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Commands transformation programme is committed to following the MODs framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Commands personnel and Trade Unions. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window). See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy. Diversity and Inclusion The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window). Apply and further information This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative. Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Contact point for applicants Job contact : Name : Rajni Gurung Email : Rajni.Gurung231mod.gov.uk Telephone : - Recruitment team Email : DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3mod.gov.uk Further information Please ensure you read the attached candidate information document prior to completing your application. If you are dissatisfied with the service you have received from DBS, or believe that DBS has failed to follow the recruitment process in line with the Civil Service Commission principles of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of Fair and Open competition, you can raise a formal complaint by writing to DBS at the following address: Defence Business Services, Scanning Hub, Room 6124, Tomlinson House, Norcross Lane, Blackpool, FY5 3WP. If after raising your complaint with DBS you remain dissatisfied you can complain directly to the Civil Service Commission at the following address: Civil Service commission, Room G/8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ Or by email: infocsc.gov.uk. Attachments 20230519-UKStratCom-Candidate Information Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 534kB) MOD Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 1562kB) Candidate Information Pack Opens in new window (docx, 31kB) Share this page Print Email Gmail Facebook LinkedIn