Job description
You’ll excel at taking in the wider picture of the FSA’s work, delivering informed strategic advice and analysis that can guide our strategic direction and ensure we are prepared for the future. Data and analytics with play a central role in your work, and you’ll champion the use of information to guide our decision making and strategic planning. Through the delivery of briefings to senior leaders across the organisation, you’ll become a key voice in the FSA, and a trusted source of advice whose ideas have a real impact on the work that we do.
You’ll have a talent for building effective working relationships that empower the FSA’s work and enable us to make the most of our negotiations with the Treasury as we seek to secure the funding necessary to deliver our important work.
If you are a talented leader who can take an informed overview and refine it into effective strategic planning, and are excited by the opportunity to use your skills to help the FSA deliver safe food to consumers across the country, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and make a real impact through your work.
Person specification
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.
Qualifications
Full or part-qualified CCAB or CIMA accountancy qualification or equivalent (consideration will be given to supporting full qualification for part qualified staff)
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
1. Seeing the Big Picture
2. Leadership
3. Communicating and Influencing
4. Delivering at Pace
5. Working Together
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £54,404, Food Standards Agency contributes £15,179 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Our candidate pack details the benefits that the FSA has to offer. Please also refer to the attached Terms and Conditions statement.