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About the job
Job summary
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair, and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration, and passports.
Corporate and Delivery Directorate works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities. The directorate is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Security, Estates and Information and Digital, Data and Technology.
The department has one of the largest and most complex portfolios of change programmes in Government, including some of the Government’s most complex and high-risk Government Major Project Portfolio (GMPP) programmes. The total whole life cost of the portfolio is over £27bn with over 3,000 staff working across its programmes.
This role is within the Finance Directorate, a unit within Corporate & Delivery DG command.
Job description
This role has responsibility for a key part of the Home Office departmental Portfolio and provision of Financial management, advice, planning and reporting. This includes holding a strong understanding of the business area being partnered, key member of the SLT and build and maintain key relationships at a senior level in their areas of responsibility, across Corporate & Delivery and the department. The role holder will bring insight and influence through provision of effective advice, presentation and communication enabling them to ensure finance is considered in commercial and operational decisions at all key stages.
Key responsibilities
- Building and maintaining key relationships, in particular developing trust and rapport. This includes managing expectations of senior managers and stakeholders.
- Developing a good understanding of the business, seeking out opportunities to better understand the commercial and operational drivers.
- Providing strategic advice, planning and analysis on financial impact, performance and risk to senior stakeholders and through this contributing to strategic direction of the wider business area. This includes supporting accurate current and multi-year financial forecasts, key fiscal events and budget planning.
- Responsibility for providing timely, accurate and clearly communicated financial management information and analysis, making full use of available data and analytics tools, to support recommendations to drive efficiency and effectiveness through value added insight and advice.
- Working closely with leads on major projects, policies and programmes to ensure sound VFM business cases are developed and monitored with strong commercial focus, options appraisal risk management, internal control and that governance procedures are followed.
- Leading a Business Partner team effectively to ensure effective support and advice to the business, effective engagement with other Finance teams, and opportunities for continual improvement are identified and pursued.
- Providing verbal and written advice and communications to internal and external governance bodies, including programme boards; NAO; ministerial submissions; publications; business case authoring; HM Treasury; IPA, Cabinet Office and the Major Projects Review Group (MPRG).
- Provide oversight and input on programme benefits forecasting and realisation, and lead liaison point with economists
Working Patterns
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, compressed hours are available.
Travel
Occasional travel within the UK may be required. Travel costs incurred for business need, will be reimbursed in line with Home Office travel policy.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
- Strategic stakeholder management with an ability to influence senior leaders both within the organisation and external stakeholders.
- Experience of leading strategic finance/medium term financial planning and developing financial options to fit an organisation’s objectives.
- Experience of working with HMT to ensure timely approvals of business of cases, influence funding decisions etc.
- Experience of managing a diverse team to get high quality results.
- Strong technical accountancy skills with experience of financial reporting and management accounting.
- Experience of working in a complex financial environment managing large and complex budgets
Qualifications
Qualified through one of the following Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB). CCAB has five member bodies: ICAEW, ACCA, CIPFA, ICAS, CIMA and Chartered Accountants Ireland:
- The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
- Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)
- The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
- Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
- Chartered Accountants Ireland.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of working in a change / portfolio environment including managing the volatilities of large and complex programmes. This will include driving change, transformation and experience in project management is desirable.
- Evidence of handling political and presentational risks and consequences, anticipating strategic risks and hurdles.
Qualifications
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Leadership
Benefits
In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:
- 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 employer contribution of 28.97%
- 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 employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.
- See more of our benefits on our careers website.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.
1. Application - 22nd June 2025.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:
- CV detailing you career history, qualifications and skills/experience.
- Personal Statement (maximum 1000 words)
- Evidence of the Behaviour - 'Leadership' (maximum of 250 words per Behaviour)
Your CV should consist of your career history, qualifications and skills/experience including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be used to provide further context on your personal statement and scored against the essential criteria.
The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.
For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV, Personal Statement, Behaviours.) you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.
2. Sift - commencing from 25th June 2025.
The sift will be held on the CV, Personal Statement and Behaviour.
Should a high volume of applications be received, an initial sift will be conducted on the CV and Personal Statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will then be progressed to a full sift that will consist of the Behaviour - 'Leadership'.
3. Interview – commencing from 14th July 2025
If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be assessed using Behaviours based questions (as listed on the advert).
In addition, candidates will be asked to prepare a presentation that will be delivered at interview. The presentation question/scenario will be disclosed closer to the interviews.
The interview will take place on Microsoft Teams. Further details and instructions will be provided closer to the scheduled interview.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made. There is no guarantee that being held on a reserve list will lead to a job offer. Further information can be found on our website.
Location Preferences
You can select up to two locations in order of preference. Please ensure that these are locations you are prepared to travel to. If you are offered a role at one of your preferred location(s) and you decline, your application will be withdrawn.
Reserve lists will be held for each location and profession. Candidates will be appointed in merit order by location and profession.
Standards
All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.
Additional Security Checks
As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, candidates will be subject to a range of additional checks. The range of checks carried out will depend on whether you are a current Home Office employee, existing civil servant or an external new entrant as well as the role requirements. Further details are included in the Notes to Candidates.
Further information
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the Demystifying Vetting website.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct.
If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
If you are invited to an interview, you will be required to bring documentation for the purposes of establishing your identity.
You will need to meet the nationality requirements for this role and obtain the necessary security clearance to take it up.
For meaningful security checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. Learn more on our website. Security Checks - Home Office Careers
Visa sponsorship
We do not sponsor individuals via Skilled Worker Sponsorship / Tier 2 (General) work visas.
Reasonable Adjustments
If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
- Complete the “Assistance Required” section in the “Additional Requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
See our vetting charter .
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)
- 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
Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
Diversity and Inclusion
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : HORC Campaign Team (Corporate Enablers)
- Email : [email protected]
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[email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission
