Finance Lead - Liverpool Regional Centre - Water Street
12 hours ago
Liverpool
About the job Job summary Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it's really like to work at HMRC. Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential. In HMRC Strategy and Policy Group Centre, we pride ourselves on the inclusivity of our team celebrating and promoting diversity. We encourage applications from everyone, such as ethnic minorities, women, disabled people, those who identify as LGBT+ and people from all socio-economic backgrounds. A warm welcome awaits you if you decide to join us. HMRC Strategy and Policy has an ambition to design and deliver a brilliant tax system - one that brings in revenue for public services, makes it easy for customers to get it right, and is valued and trusted by all. This is a great chance to be at the heart of the department, getting exposure to and supporting changes to HMRC's tax strategy and design. As a team we are responsible for making sure the CS&TD Group makes the best use of its c£300m annual budget and clearly demonstrating its value. We are a highly motivated team, we value community and inclusiveness, and we encourage collaboration, innovation and opportunities to link up across the breath of our work. Applicants who wish to work alternative working patterns are welcome to apply. The preferred working pattern may or may not be available, agreement will be subject to business need, and any request to work an alternative working pattern should be made prior to your acceptance of the provisional offer. Job description The 2 roles sit within CS&TD's Finance Business Partnering and Planning team, working closely with Finance Business Partners to deliver a high‑quality financial management service to CS&TD Directorates. Each Directorate operates in a distinct context, making the Finance Lead role both varied and engaging, with strong opportunities for professional development. Successful candidates will build and maintain effective working relationships with Business Management teams and a wide range of stakeholders, providing insight, challenge, and support to help Directorates achieve their financial and performance objectives. In these roles you will: • Lead the production of accurate and robust monthly forecasts and workforce plans for CS&TD Directorates, ensuring clear alignment to agreed budgets and priorities., • Proactively engage senior stakeholders to develop a strong understanding of cost drivers and assumptions, providing effective challenge, identifying financial risks and opportunities, and influencing informed decision‑making., • Work closely with business areas experiencing forecast volatility to diagnose issues, agree corrective actions, and track delivery of improvements., • Undertake analysis of historical spend, including run‑rate and trend analysis, to inform future forecasts and planning assumptions., • Provide high‑quality financial advice, insight and analysis to support in‑year planning, prioritisation and resource allocation, including coaching and feedback to strengthen financial capability across the business., • Prepare clear and insightful monthly SLT reports, explaining in‑month and full‑year variances and highlighting emerging risks and mitigations., • Produce Directorate‑level reporting to support the monthly Management Accounts process., • Play a proactive role in supporting Finance Business Partners and Directorates with Spending Reviews, annual business planning, and longer‑term workforce and financial planning., • Maintain and strengthen financial controls and assurance, ensuring clear audit trails, timely completion of key processes (e.g. budget transfers, accruals and returns), and continuous improvement of financial control tools (including Group Power BI)., • Support Directorates to improve understanding of financial policies, standards, accountabilities and controls, including compliance requirements such as T&S., • Recent experience in a finance role with a strong focus on budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis, supporting effective financial control and decision‑making., • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and provide constructive challenge to stakeholders at all levels, both verbally and in writing, including non‑finance audiences., • Proven ability to make effective use of financial management systems (e.g. SAP FM or equivalent accounting systems)., • Strong digital and IT capability, particularly advanced use of Microsoft Excel, alongside wider proficiency in Microsoft Office and Office 365 tools., • Previous line management or experience of managing the workload of an individual/team., • Working Together, • Making Effective Decisions, • Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary., • Family friendly policies., • Personal support., • A name-blind CV including your job history and previous experiences., • A 750-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the Essential Criteria and Person Specification outlined in the advert., • A 250-word Behaviour Statement on Working Together., • A 250-word Behaviour Statement on Making Effective Decisions., • 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) (opens in a new window), • 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