Digital Finance Manager (Ref: 6346)

Location: National

Closing Date: 10 June 2025

Interviews: From 19 June 2025

Grade: SEO (MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary: London: £47,657 - £52,040; National: £41,463 - £45,276

Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office.

The Role

The Digital Finance Manager will be responsible for:

• Improving financial management and governance in D&T.
• Building and continually improving financial processes and reports.
• Working as part of a great team of Digital Finance Managers and Analysts, managing the Analysts in their area, where applicable.

More specifically this means:

• Work with colleagues in your portfolio areas and the finance function to build and inform realistic and well-understood financial forecasts.
• Provide meaningful and accurate financial reporting, analysis and insights to help colleagues make well-informed decisions.
• Support colleagues in meeting their budgets and savings targets by identifying savings opportunities and anticipating potential overspend.
• Work with colleagues to resolve issues relating to budgets, purchase orders and invoices.
• Work with colleagues to track financial benefits agreed in business cases and plans.
• Promote the benefits of good financial management within D&T.

Creating, delivering and continually improving robust financial processes and reports:

• Manage the design and development of financial processes for a specific area of D&T including; Purchase-to-pay process, working with colleagues from finance and commercial functions.
• Creating, tracking, managing and closing Purchase Orders.
• Working with budget holders and other colleagues to deal with the receipt and the release of payments to third party suppliers.
• Communicating with budget holders and third-party suppliers around payment schedules, escalating where appropriate.
• Cross-charging to other government departments or business areas, working with colleagues from the finance function.
• Build and continually improve financial reports, performance dashboards and scorecards.

Working as part of a great team of Digital Finance Managers and Analysts, managing the analysts in their area:

• Recruit, manage and motivate a team of capable Digital Finance Analysts.
• Develop individual, and team capabilities, driving great performance, and embedding D&T values and behaviours.
• Contribute to setting wider team goals and objectives, ensuring alignment with D&T priorities.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has managed and analysed commercial contract spend, complex budgets, preferably IT budgets, and those that involve large amounts of spend with suppliers.
• Has built finance processes, reports and dashboards.
• Enjoys working with large data sets and solving problems.
• Is able to draw conclusions from, and make recommendations based on, numbers and data.
• Is comfortable presenting to, and challenging, stakeholders.
• Has managed other people.
• Enjoys bringing people from different teams or groups together to deliver a common objective.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow.
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024.
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday.
• 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave.
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location).
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification

Essential

• Has worked with and analysed complex budgets or data sets, preferably IT budgets, and those that involve spend with suppliers.
• Experience working with contracts and financial analysis of contracts, preferably with an understanding of civil service commercial processes.
• Has built and produced finance processes, reports and dashboards.
• Experience drawing conclusions from, and making recommendations based on, numbers and data.
• Is comfortable presenting to, and making recommendations to, colleagues and stakeholders.
• Enjoys bringing people from different teams or groups together to deliver a common objective.
• Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.

To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 10th June 2025.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.