Senior Finance Officer, The Office for Place - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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- £51,934
  • A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
    Job grade:
  • Grade 7
    Contract type:
  • Permanent
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Regeneration Directorate:

Places, Infrastructure and Housing Delivery
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  • Other
    Working pattern:
  • Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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  • StokeonTrentAbout the job

Job summary:

Are you interested in how we create and curate the places that surround us?


The Office for Place is a newly established non-departmental public body that will develop and share evidence, advice, tools and learning to support the creation and stewardship of places that are beautiful, sustainable, popular, and healthy.


It has its origins in the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission Report 'Living with Beauty' which has influenced national planning policy and, through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act, the requirement for all local authorities to produce a design code for their area, developed through local community involvement and engagement.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an organisation whose objectives are to:

  • Catalyse a fundamental change within and across all levels of government, communities, and the development, planning and design industries, to support the creation and stewardship of popular, healthy, beautiful, and sustainable places.
  • Help neighbourhoods, communities and public servants working on their behalf, to ask for and deliver, and manage existing places, to be popular, healthy, beautiful, and sustainable.
  • Support public sector planners and the British design and development industries to be the best place makers in the world aided by improving UK and international data on happiness, health, popularity, and sustainability.
Are you willing to help us meet this challenge?


Job description:


The postholder will lead on all aspects of financial forecasting, processing, control and reporting within a small government organisation (FTE 24, annual budget of c.£4 million).

This will include the ongoing establishment of financial governance and systems and the first set of annual accounts at the end of the Office for Place's first full year of independent operations.


The finance officer will report to the Head of Corporate Services and Chief Finance Officer who oversees all the necessary corporate service functions to enable the effective running of the organisation (ICT, finance, human resources, facilities management, commercial, assets and governance).

You will work in a small team of 5-6 people, line manage the SEO commercial and facilities lead, and will be expected to take a flexible approach supporting the work of the wider team as needed.

It is expected that you will take up the position no later than 1 September 2024.


The senior finance officer responsibilities will include:

  • Monthly financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, including preparing the financial report to the board;
  • Analysing variances of actual spend, forecast and budgets, and providing returns to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities as necessary;
  • Providing financial support to the organisation, including partnering with programme leads to collate and record forecast information;
  • Raising purchase orders and processing these through the financial management system ensuring prompt payment of invoices;
  • Establishing financial management and control policies across the organisation, in line with central government and arms length body good practice;
  • Overseeing audit procedures including supporting the work of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee;
  • Supporting the Chief Finance Officer on signing off the annual accounts, and preparing the annual report and budget returns for government finance cycles, including the Budget and Supplementary Estimates;
  • Overseeing Office for Place contracts, including shared service agreements with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and supporting the effective implementation and operation of new finance, IT and human resource systems, including the payroll system.
  • Overseeing the development of corporate service policies as required including data protection and assets management.

Person specification:


Essential

  • You should be a qualified finance professional with CCAB / CIMA or equivalent e.g. ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA, ICAEW, ICAS, ICAI.
  • You should have experience managing an organisation or team's finance, accounts and audit functions. You will be familiar with government accounting, specifically the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), the Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM), the Consolidated Budgeting Guidance (CBG) and Managing Public Money.
  • You will have excellent prioritisation, planning and organi
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