Description
efficiency reporting
budget planning
strategic advice
business review
spending review
financial forecasting
The Department for Transport is seeking a Strategic Finance Advisor to provide expert financial advice to senior officials and Ministers on budgets, spending and efficiencies. You will play a key role in shaping future transport policy and ensuring finance is central to decision-making. Working across Strategic Finance and the Finance Centre of Excellence, you’ll be involved in fiscal events, business planning, and financial assurance, influencing stakeholders across government and HM Treasury on high-profile projects and future transport priorities.
- Ensure that the departmental approach to efficiencies and productivity is embedded and look for opportunities to continually improve this process, from leading on quarterly Government Efficiency Framework reporting to considering how to embed efficiencies and productivity throughout the department.
- Collaborate with budget holders to develop medium and long term plans that are affordable and aligned with government’s economic and fiscal objectives. Consult and negotiate with HM Treasury colleagues to agree spending plans.
- Communicating complex financial issues simply to enable individuals with limited financial knowledge to understand the key messages.
- Provide quality and timely strategic finance advice on the Department’s spending proposals as part of the Finance Centre of Excellence.
- Reviewing business cases / investment proposals with significant expenditure.
- Work as part of the Fiscal Events team to prepare for upcoming Spending Reviews to ensure that the department secures sufficient funding by working closely with internal stakeholders such as Strategy Unit (SU), Finance Business Partners (FBPs) and policy teams to develop potential funding options as well as external stakeholders such as HM Treasury (HMT).
- Challenging financial forecasts and identifying financial risks and providing options to control costs and drive efficiencies.
- Developing effective relationships to understand needs and priorities of stakeholders at all levels.
- Develop an understanding of transport policies in order to identify financial risks and provide advice on options and actions that can be taken to control costs. Improve the accuracy of forecasting through constructive challenge and by identifying evidence to underpin assumptions.
Requirements
self-motivated
highly organised
fast-paced
decision making
stakeholder
These are high profile, challenging and rewarding posts that will require you to work and make decisions at high pace. You will need to be self-motivated, highly organised, and comfortable working with staff at all levels throughout the organisation and internal and external stakeholders in a fast-moving environment.
Benefits
💷 Salary: £57,515 (National minimum salary: £57,515
London minimum salary: £62,034)
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
🕒 Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time
📍 Location: Birmingham, Leeds, London (Hybrid)
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
- Access to the staff discount portal.
- Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
- 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
- Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
- 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
Training + Development
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