Digital Finance Manager

Location: National

Closing Date: 7th December

Interviews: w/c 18th December

Grade: SEO

Salary: National: £39,868 - £43,535, London: £45,824 - £50,039

Working pattern: Full Time, Part time, Flexible working.

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 81751

*We are currently offering hybrid working which includes 2 days per week in your local office. Office locations can be found here.

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Digital Finance Analyst here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Strategy & Operations team.

The Digital Finance Team, as part of wider Strategy & Operations, works closely with stakeholders from right across Justice Digital, and the Finance and Commercial Professions, to support and assure spending activities across Justice Digital. It strives to deliver a streamlined, effective, and insightful approach to financial decision-making that adds value for delivery teams.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

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:

Improving financial management and governance in D&T:

• 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:

• In line with wider D&T strategy, 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 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 you want to join our team, please read on and apply!

Person Specification

Essential

• Has worked with and analysed complex budgets or data sets, preferably IT budgets, and those that involve spend with suppliers.
• Has built and produced finance processes, reports and dashboards.
• Is able to draw conclusions from, and make 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.

Candidates must be willing to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor. 

Our values are Purpose, Humanity, Openness and Togetherness. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options, including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• We are committed to nurturing our staff and provide lots of training and development opportunities with learning platforms such as: Linux Academy, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, Microsoft Learning, Civil Service Learning, GDS Academy, etc.
• 10% dedicated time to learning and development, with a budget of £1,000 a year per person
• Generous Civil Service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 26-30% depending on salary.
• 25 days’ leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day (usually taken around the King’s birthday), with 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. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support, including access to the Calm app. 
• Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks, including those for Careers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
• Bike loans up to £2,500 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 on-site gym.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV and a Personal Statement (maximum 750 words) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your experience, technical skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together

Your application will be reviewed against the above Person Specification by a diverse panel. 

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 45-minute panel interview held via video conference.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out the way we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk