Head of Finance Reports to: Director of HR & Corporate Services Main Duties The Head of Finance is a member of the Senior Leadership team and reports to the Director of HR & Corporate Services. The post holder will lead the Finance & Procurement Function in the Office and be responsible for the review and completion of the Offices Annual Report & Accounts. They will provide strategic financial information and advice to Executive and Senior Leadership Teams and ensure appropriate and modern governance and risk structures are in place to support the Finance function. Key responsibilities Overall responsibility for the finance function of the Office including appropriate budget allocation, forecasting and monitoring and the provision of accurate financial information to a range of stakeholders. Advising the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) in relation to business planning based on financial position and provision of high-quality financial analyses. Lead the preparation and completion of the Annual Report and Accounts ensuring compliance with FReM and all other relevant financial reporting and audit guidance. Development and implementation of modern financial systems; including contribution to transition to Cloud based systems where possible. Developing management accounting and financial performance reporting for departments and liaising with members of Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to ensure information is up to date and accurate. Responsible for the procurement function within the Office, including supporting the development of business cases and ensuring the provision of high quality advice and guidance. As a member of SLT providing leadership in a changing and challenging environment. Ensuring the implementation of relevant pay awards by ensuring Pay Remit calculations are completed and approved. Leading, managing and motivating a team who often need to work to tight deadlines, and on tasks where high quality information and guidance needs to be produced. Taking overall responsibility for payroll function within the Office, Establishing and maintaining close and effective working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders. Deputising for the Director of HR and Corporate Services when necessary. Providing finance expertise to a number of projects across the organisation to aid completion of business cases. Maintaining an up to date and comprehensive understanding of current public expenditure planning, monitoring, control and accountability, corporate governance and risk management systems. Providing clear and practical advice and guidance to promote good governance. Responsibility for ensuring all information within the Finance and Procurement functions is managed appropriately in line with relevant policies. To have responsibility for all records held, created or used as part of the business, including corporate and administrative records whether paper-based or electronic and also including emails, in line with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. To have due regard to the need to promote equality of opportunity between: Persons of different religious belief, political opinion, racial group, age, marital status or sexual orientation Men and women in general Persons with a disability and persons without Persons with dependants and persons without. 18. Any other relevant duties appropriate to the grade as may be required. Essential Criteria A qualified accountant and have obtained full membership* of one the following: The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants And Have at least 3 years relevant practical post qualification experience gained in a finance related environment in two or more areas detailed below: Financial planning and budgeting Financial accounting / auditing Management according and cost analysis Financial policy and governance / corporate governance Development / implementation of financial systems. And Demonstrate evidence of at least two of the following: Providing accounting advice, analysis and scrutiny to support business managers in developing business plans of strategic significance, future business strategies and decision making. Application of different financial planning and budgeting techniques to support the achievement of outcome of strategic significance Application of sound principles of corporate governance including risk management to support the delivery of business objectives of strategic significance. *Relevant or equivalent qualifications Applicants must demonstrate on their application form how the qualifications they have provided are equivalent, in level, to those qualifications requested above. They should give the details of the awarding body and the date awarded (the date awarded is the date on which you were admitted by the official awarding body). If you believe your qualification is equivalent to the one required, the onus is on your to provide the panel with details of modules studied etc so that a well informed decision can be made. Post-Qualification Experience Will be deemed to have commenced from the date on which applicants are admitted as fully qualified accountants to one of the professional bodies referred to at 1, having fully satisfied all the criteria of membership. You will be required to provide documentary evidence of your qualifications / professional membership. Should you not be possession of your qualification certificates, we would advise that you make immediate arrangements to obtain these. Strategic Significance Is defined as an area / function which is recognised in a business or corporate plan or strategy as being key to delivering the organisations objectives. Shortlisting Criteria In addition, applicants should be aware that after an eligibility sift, should it be necessary to shortlist candidates to go forward to interview, the following shortlisting criteria will be used: The extent to which relevant experience set out in criteria 2 and 3 above is central government finance experience