This role is within the Chief Digital Office providing financial support across the function. As Finance Lead and Business Support your role is to protect value, drive value and add value. Your key responsibility will be to support the Chief Digital Officer and their senior leadership team in managing their financial position and implementing their savings, make robust investment decisions and implement their action plans. The role will involve collaborating with colleagues from across Defra Group Finance to deliver successful outcomes. You will also assist in providing insightful financial analysis and establishing a robust challenge to inform decision making and business planning. You will act as the face of Finance to ensure that finance is at the heart of commercial decision making, engaging suppliers in holding to account and securing benefits. As a critical friend to the business, you will ensure stewardship of public funds, efficient and effective use of budgets and play a key role in transformational change. You will provide advice on Directorate budgets and improve forecasting capability of the team. The post holder will work largely independently. The role holder's work is guided by agreed performance objectives, with the role holder having considerable discretion over day-to-day workload. The role contributes significantly to decisions taken by senior grades across the Defra group, regarding risk and organisational change. The role holder will be required to translate financial capability considerations into a simple business narrative that leaders can easily understand and make informed decisions on risk and organisational change. There will be frequent communication required at all levels and up to Deputy Director and Director level. There is a requirement to balance the requirements of multiple organisations and stakeholders, use judgement and flexibility in identifying problems and ensure any proposed solutions is practical and cost effective. The Post holder will need to contribute to Business Management by being the point of contact for queries relating to finance, recruitment as well as additional ad-hoc business support duties to support the Chief Digital Officer.
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