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They provide valuable financial advice, challenge and strategic insight to budget holders and senior decision-makers to drive value for money outcomes. They have the desire and ability to take on large and complex delivery areas to help them navigate high-profile and often financially challenging environments.Â
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Key Responsibilities Â
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• Providing specialist financial advice – engaging with IT experts and providing advice on key financial planning, processes, and budget setting.Â
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• Taking responsibility for providing financial information to the business with clear advice and recommendations, using all available data and analytics tools.Â
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• Supporting the development and implementation of credible financial plans that are consistent with HMRCs strategic direction, performance and delivery plans.Â
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• Attending and influencing senior leader boards and committees, providing robust challenge that considers the wider financial position of both the CDIO Group and HMRC.Â
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• Involved at the start of the idea pipeline, engaging early in solution development and supporting the creation and approval of business cases through strong financial insight throughout the process.Â
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• Driving evidence-based decisions through challenging and supporting the business to enhance decision-making.Â
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• Providing coaching and feedback proactively to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business and finance colleagues and increasing performance through informed and objective advice.Â
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• Horizon scanning to identify potential issues and helping CDIO directorates develop financially viable solutions.Â
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• Management of team members and/or oversight of others work and developing leadership skills within and across teams. Â
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• Driving cultural change to improve CDIO Finance leadership by role-modelling behaviours that inspire, motivate, empower, support, celebrate successes and tackle inappropriate behaviour/ poor performance.Â
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• Influencing and driving cultural change to improve financial information, innovation, processes, systems, assurance and financial capability. Â
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• Working collaboratively and building strong relationships with the HMRC Transformation Portfolio, Programme and Finance community, to influence and drive finance effective change.  Person specification
Essential Criteria
- CCAB (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent fully qualified accountant.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insight to support analysis and decision making.
- Excellent IT/Excel, oral and written skills.
- Proven experience of working in a large and complex organisation.
- Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to support wider business stakeholders.
- Confident communicator, comfortable with robustly challenging senior business leaders and decision-makers.
- Ability to work in a culture of change, to think strategically and work comfortably with risk.
Desirable CriteriaÂ
- Understanding of ERP systems.
- Experience of working on a large/major transformation Programmes.
- Prior experience of working within an IT/Digital function may be advantageous.Â