Head of Financial Strategy - UKIFS Ltd
Head of Financial Strategy - UKIFS Ltd
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Job Description
For more information on UKIFS visit:
The salary for this role is 79638. Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week however we actively support requests for flexible working.
Employees of UKIFS can be based at either of our sites; West Burton Nottinghamshire or Culham Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and be eligible for SC Clearance (must have resided in the UK for the last 5 years) including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
As part of your application please submit your CV supported with a Covering Letter detailing your relative knowledge and experience for the role.
The Role
The Head of Financial Strategy role will play a critical role in shaping the financial landscape of the company ensuring the company achieves its business objectives by providing advice and guidance and financial strategy.
As Head of Financial Strategy you will be responsible for creating and leading UKIFS Financial Planning and Analysis capability working across the company and its Partners to deliver strategic insights and decision support tools to senior decision makers. You will be responsible for establishing and leading the creation of the companys medium and longterm financial plan ensuring that it has the resources to achieve UKIFS strategic objectives and deliver the STEP programme.
You will support the Finance Director in the financial transformation to a registered company that leads a complex major programme with large delivery partners from industry. Whilst this is an exciting challenge you will need to be comfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity as we build UKIFS Ltd. and its team. You will be helping to lead the establishment of a major programme and limited company at its foundation stage. This will provide you with an opportunity to set strategies and design and embed new procedures and processes.
Key Accountabilities:
- Lead on setting the strategic direction intent and shape of the UKIFS financial strategy and priorities for the company.
- Prepare and present advice to the CEO Board and Executive Committee on how the UKIFS strategy can be translated into financial requirements and provide robust advice on complex financial decisions and issues in a changing environment and a transforming organisation.
- Ensure finance is at the heart of all key decision making through oversight support and challenge
- Work closely with the programme costing and the programme finance team to develop and manage UKIFSs medium and longterm financial planning model including 3year and 10year rolling forecasts.
- Develop risk strategies to manage medium and longterm financial risk
- Monitor and analyse the companys financial performance identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes to improve results.
- Leverage new technologies and innovative approaches to improve financial processes reporting and decisionmaking
- Develop and use a deep understanding of the wider strategic political and economic climate to ensure that UKIFS financial plans adapt to strategic threats and maximises strategic opportunities
- Provide financial analysis and strategic insights which support the evaluation of strategic investment options and prioritisation in the company
- Lead on cost optimisation driving efficiency on corporate and operational processes without compromising quality or growth potential and to ensure financial sustainability within the organisation.
- Establish strong relationships with senior stakeholders both internally and externally in particular with other finance commercial and programme colleagues in UKIFS UKAEA Group finance Whole Plant Partners and senior UKIFS staff as well as colleagues in wider government
- Build and lead a Financial Planning capability in UKIFS through hiring coaching and development providing leadership guidance mentorship and support
Qualifications :
Essential:
- Qualified accountant (ACA ACCA CIMA)
- Excellent financial skills gained in a complex organisation of significant size and responsibilities.
- Proven experience in senior finance leadership roles
- Excellent analytical and modelling skills
- Extensive experience in strategic finance roles and ability to understand and exploit wider strategic context to the advantage of the company
- Excellent ability to operate influence and negotiate with senior stakeholders
- Strong commercial acumen and demonstrated ability to apply finance and business principles to organisational financial strategy
- Effective communications skills with ability to analyse interpret and communicate complex data to a wide audience outside of the finance function including programme delivery teams and other key senior stakeholders and inspire confidence in taking relevant stakeholders methodically through complex financial information
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships work effectively across matrix teams and support senior stakeholders both internally and externally
Desirable:
- Experience working in a matrix and projectbased environment and with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience working in major and complex procurement initiatives
- Experience in working in related roles outside of finance including strategy or commercial roles
- Experience working in both public and private sectors.
- Public Sector Finance Knowledge: Familiarity with the specific regulations processes and governance frameworks applicated to public sector organisations in the UK.
Additional Information :
A full list of our benefits can be found here ;
We welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We encourage applications from underrepresented groups particularly from women in STEM people from Black British Caribbean and African Pakistani and Bangladeshi British and other ethnic minority backgrounds people with disabilities and neurotypical individuals. Our Executive team supported by our Head of Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organisation. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.
For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks:;If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
