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Head of Financial Systems - Flexible Working Available

Employer
Food Standards Agency
Location
Nationwide
Salary
£60,300 - £64,300
Closing date
5 Feb 2021

Job Details

Location

Multi-location, Home based in the UK Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham, London, York Occasional travel to London and York required with the possibility of overnight stays Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not overseas.

About the job

The FSA is a non-ministerial department of over 1300 people, with a big vision – to drive change in the food system so that it delivers “food we can trust”. More than 90% of food and feed law in the UK currently comes from Europe and our primary goal is to continue to protect public health and UK consumers’ wider interest in food. As we have now exited the EU the FSA faces a significant period of change and activity.

Job description

Reporting to the Head of Commercial, the Head of Finance Systems (HoFS) will own responsibility for managing all finance systems as well as lead the organisations finance systems team.

The FSA is embarking on a critical project to replace its Finance and Procurement systems and services which are currently Outsourced to SSCL. The HoFS will be responsible for leading the FSA’s successful implementation and migration onto a new system. They will also be required to successfully transform and embed efficient finance processes across the FSA by Oct 2022.

The new system will facilitate a step change in Finance and Procurement support to the business, driving the automation of transactional activity allowing more time to be focused on value-add services.

The HoFS will be responsible for engaging across senior stakeholders within the FSA as well as external stakeholders including Cabinet Office, Government Finance Function, our incumbent supplier SSCL and future delivery partners. The HoFS will lead an engagement and communications plan across the 100+ system users in the FSA, ensuring the necessary training is in place to successfully implement this large-scale change project.
The HoFS will be responsible for maximising the FSA’s value for money from a budget of £1.5m.

This role will provide essential support to the FSA as it strives to improve its effectiveness and efficiency in meeting its strategic priorities. The Head of Financial Systems (HoFS) will ensure the financial systems are robust and meet the directorates requirements, capable of providing accurate MI to support decision making and helping it to present financial information in an easily consumable manor.

The successful candidate will lead on the delivery of this programme and associated business change initiatives, working to the SRO. They are expected to shape the programme and ensure a consistent, structured and disciplined approach is adopted across the programme to ensure that the desired benefits can be successfully delivered. The responsibilities entail delivery of all aspects of the programme throughout its life cycle including taking responsibility for the successful delivery of outcomes, including the establishment of appropriate governance and assurance, monitoring progress, managing risks/issues/dependencies, benefits development/ realization, problem solving, information & records management and ensuring business readiness for change.
 

Responsibilities

Please read the attached Candidate Pack to discover further details about the role, our organisation, who we are looking for and the criteria we will assess against during the selection process. We look forward to receiving your application and wish you every success.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Delivering at Pace
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • CCAB qualified or equivalent

Benefits

Our candidate pack details the benefits that the FSA has to offer. Please also refer to the attached Terms and Conditions statement.

Things you need to know

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Sift: from 18 January 2021
Interview: from 01 February 2021

Full details of the selection process are detailed in the attached candidate pack. This will consist of shortlisting against the essential and desirable person specification criteria stated. If successful at shortlisting stage, you will be invited to the final selection stage consisting of a behaviours based interview.
In the event of receiving a large number of applications an initial sift may take place on just the identified lead criteria indicated below:

• Experience of implementing and developing financial systems ensuring they meet user needs, support best practise financial processes and enable system integration.

We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within our organisation at this level. All appointments are made on merit.

We actively review the deployment of talent on a periodic basis in the interests of optimising personal development and the achievement of business plans.

Our candidate pack details the benefits that the FSA has to offer. Please also refer to the attached terms and conditions statement.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries
  • nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with (or eligible for) status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
  • certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants Job contact : Name :   Craig Thomas Email :   [email protected]   Recruitment team : Email :   [email protected] Further information

If you wish to raise a complaint then please email [email protected] in the first instance.

Company

We are an independent Government department working across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to protect public health and consumers’ wider interests in food. 

Our job is to use our expertise and influence so that people can trust that the food they buy and eat is safe and what it says it is.

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