Financial Operations | Grade 6

Summary

Role summary:

This role will be responsible for the strategic leadership and service delivery of Financial Operations in a department. They will develop the strategy for continuous improvement, delivering process improvement initiatives in Financial Operations, but also use this to drive change across the organisation. Commercially astute, they will work closely with shared service providers to manage performance and support the procurement and implementation of new services and systems that take advantage of technological developments. In addition, as Financial Operations affects all parts of the department, including the implementation of new policies and key transactions, they will likely find themselves working alongside other finance and policy colleagues managing cross-cutting issues.

Typical Role Responsibilities

G6s are expected to:

• Manage the effective delivery of financial operations across the department
• Set the standard of financial services and Service Level Agreements
• Provide expert advice to Ministers, Senior Officials and Boards where appropriate

Entry Route

Only suitable for staff with the required skills and/or experience in Financial Operations

Typical Qualifications

Essential:

• Qualified with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent with post qualification experience

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Leading the Financial Operations team, ensuring that staffing resource is sufficient and appropriately trained and developed to meet the needs of the department /agency

• Partnering with suppliers and stakeholders to identify and capture opportunities for improvements

• Developing effective policies for all areas and processes across finance operations, ensuring they continue to be fit for purpose and aligned to global processes

• Developing effective working relationships with a number of stakeholders, including the National Audit Office, Government Internal Audit Agency, HMT and business units where a collaborative approach is needed to ensure success

• Providing advice to Ministers, Senior Managers and boards as appropriate

Expectations

Behaviours

For details of Behaviours read the Success Profiles guidance on GOV.UK.

• Seeing the Big Picture

• Making Effective Decisions

• Leadership

• Communicating and Influencing

• Delivering at Pace

• Managing a Quality Service

• Developing Self and Others

Interpersonal Skills

• Ability to build relationships with key decision makers and influence ways of working

• Excellent people management skills with the ability to deliver business change

• Ability to work autonomously, manage ambiguity and provide constructive challenge

• Significant experience of providing analytical insight to a broad range of issues combined

• Ability to communicate messages with impact both orally and in writing.

Professional Skills

Key for Levels of Professional Skills

A = Awareness

W = Working

P = Practitioner

E = Expert

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent with post qualification experience

• Accelerated qualification is available for G6s and SCS1 with the relevant experience.

Entry and Progression Routes

Entry Routes

Within Finance

This role may be suitable for individuals in the following roles:

• Financial Operations G7s with an understanding of the impact operations has on other finance disciplines
• Other Finance G7s / G6s with a good understanding of Financial Operations

From Outside Finance

This role is not suitable for non-finance professionals or individuals without significant finance experience.

Progression Routes

Depending on the entry route, staff in this role typically move into another G6 position within finance to build experience at a senior level before progressing on to a SCS1 position.