Governance and Reporting Officer - London, United Kingdom - Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Salary:

- £39,384 - £46,715
  • National: £39,384 £43,169 London: £43,007 £46,715
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Senior Executive Officer
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
    Business area:
  • Trade Policy Implementation & Negotiation (TPIN)
    Type of role:
  • Business Management and Improvement
  • Finance
  • Human Resources
  • Project Delivery
  • Risk Management
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
    Number of jobs available:
  • 1Contents
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  • Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, SalfordAbout the job

Job summary:


The Corporate Support team plays a pivotal and cross-cutting role to ensure our directorate can deliver a complex portfolio of work.

Our directorate acts as voice for UK business interests in the UK-EU economic relationship, including work to boost UK-EU Services trade and investment.

Our global responsibilities include recognition arrangements for professional qualifications and services trade sanctions against Russia.

While domestically we redraw and uphold regulatory frameworks for services, professions and the UK Internal Market while promoting the OECD's responsible business conduct standards.

This stretching role sits at the heart of enabling the Directorate to deliver.

You will work closely with the Director and the Senior Management Team, spotting and dealing with priorities and taking a strategic view.


You will drive forward our governance, reporting, and risk management approach, ensuring that teams have the required reporting cycles in place to manage the Directorate's performance.

You will work closely with the finance business partners on financial forecasting and reporting, and with the HR business partners to support recruitment and retention in the directorate, ensuring we have the grip on our resources to deliver our objectives.

Our directorate is a great place to work.

We have an active corporate life, championed by our leadership team, and led by our staff to create a supportive, inclusive and fun hybrid-working environment for us all to thrive.


Job description:


  • Your key responsibilities are likely to include:_
  • Providing strategic advice to the Director and Senior Management Team, highlighting risks and opportunities relating to policy delivery and corporate matters. This requires collaboration with multiple teams and an ability to track several workstrands simultaneously.
  • Running our directorate's reporting cycle, working closely with the leadership team to identify progress, priorities and risks across finance, resourcing, and delivery. You will analyse information and reports to identify common themes and issues, presenting these to senior management.
  • Working with policy teams to ensure they have the capability and capacity to identify and manage risks at team level. Where needed, you will support the creation of risk management systems and delivery plans within teams.
  • Working with the finance team to keep on top of budgets and targets, ensuring accurate reporting to senior management and mitigating financial risks.
  • Working closely with the HR business partner, you will monitor and assist recruitment activity, keep our staff lists accurate, and act as a source of expertise within the directorate to support recruitment and retention.
  • Leading on directorate reporting into groupwide governance forums such as the Director General's Delivery Board, and departmentwide reporting.
There is scope to take on additional responsibilities dependent on personal development goals and organisational requirements.


Person specification:


Essential criteria

  • Ability to build excellent relationships and work across teams at all grades, particularly with seniors.
  • A strong communicator, you can analyse complex information and translate it into clear and wellpresented messages.
  • Diligent, you are detailfocused, you ensure everything is accurate and error free.
  • Wellorganised with demonstrated resilience and selfmotivation. You are great at prioritising multiple demands on your time.

Desirable criteria

  • Knowledge and experience of project or risk management desirable but not essential.

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Changing and Improving
  • Working Together
  • Delivering at Pace

Benefits:


  • Alongside your salary of £39,384, Department for Business and Trade contributes £10,633 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribu
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