Job description Job Title: Commercial financial analyst Band: 4 Salary: £46,293 - £51,439 Location: Liverpool/Norwich Terms: 2 Years Fixed Term Hours : Full time/compressed Positions: 2 Closing Date: 14/07/2025 Insight into CCS - Webinar Don't miss out on gaining valuable insight into CCS and our recruitment process! Join us on Monday 7th July at 5:30 PM. Please use this link to register your attendance for this session or any of our upcoming sessions. Do you enjoy analytical decision making? Do you like managing stakeholders and using your technical finance skills to help others? Come and join our Commercial Finance team. Job Summary You will be providing high quality supplier financial risk analysis and making recommendations as part of supplier selection and ongoing commercial agreement management. You will provide real time support and guidance, act as a trusted adviser and contribute to the CCS customer value proposition. You will be required to manage multiple stakeholders and prioritise a varied workload whilst maintaining a focus on detail and accuracy. The two posts will form part of a newly established sub-team to deliver pro-active financial risk assurance. Both roles will help shape the service offering going forward and implement the new service line as well as supporting the organisation with adhoc financial risk queries. Directorate Overview Finance, Planning and Performance oversees our financial reporting, develops budgets and projections, formulates business plans, tracks implementation progress, measures success metrics and manages corporate risk. Team Summary This fantastic and rare opportunity sits in the Commercial Finance Team which supports CCS to manage financial risk for over 10,000 suppliers. Our team of 8 finance professionals really makes a difference working with procurement operations to deliver commercial agreements while ensuring compliance with financial stability policy and delivering value for our customers through performing financial risk assurance activities. Responsibilities Liaising with external suppliers and colleagues to process financial risk Creating risk evaluation reports by reviewing financial information, applying financial ratios and providing concise conclusions Use financial data to form clearly communicated recommendations and support Commercial teams in contractual risk management Act as a trusted partner to commercial teams as they manage supplier on commercial agreements Input to the commercial finance systems and reporting, enabling timely, high quality reports to Procurement Operations and Category teams Identify and contribute to initiatives to develop the commercial Finance service offering Communicate financial reports, processes and financial risk guidance in a simple, easy to understand manner Essential Criteria (to be assessed at application stage) Ability to deliver to strict deadlines and to work under pressure Highly organised with strong attention to detail Experience of interpreting financial information to identify financial risk Experience of working with multiple stakeholders with varying levels of financial knowledge Professional accounting qualification (minimum level of Part Qualified - ICAEW or equivalent) Desirable Criteria Working knowledge of Government Playbooks and the Economic and Financial Stability policy In the event of a high number of strong candidates we will use desirable as a second sift Success profiles (To be assessed at interview stage): Behaviours Managing a Quality Service Making effective decisions Delivering at Pace Communicating and Influencing And the following technical skills: Financial risk analysis (A link to the Civil Service Success Profiles Framework is provided below) Success Profiles Framework What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect: Competitive salary Generous pension scheme A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6) Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank Explore fully how we will reward your work. Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack At CCS, we actively support, promote and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people. We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk Working flexibly, delivering outcomes CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values. Selection Process Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift and interview times and dates to be confirmed. (Subject to change) To find out more about our recruitment process please click here Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual. A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk. Complaints procedure: Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk in the first instance. If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. Complaints Procedure Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-principles/ If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk in the first instance. If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at info@csc.gov.uk Internal candidates should apply using their Workday account. Please use the careers hub for your application.