The Home Office works to build a safe, fair, and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counterterrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration, and passports.
Home Office Digital builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles, and property.
This is an exciting time to join Home Office Digital where the Senior Strategic Finance & Business Planning Manager plays a pivotal role within the Chief Operating Office. Collaborating with the wider team, you will support the development and use of the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model and contribute to an integrated approach to strategy and business planning. You will be responsible for maintaining and promoting the use and adoption of the TCO model as the primary financial planning artefact within Home Office Digital. This includes using it for scenario planning and t-shirt sizing to enable more accurate and strategic forecasting of future expenditures.
You will draw on your knowledge and understanding of strategic cost drivers and your experience of working within financial planning / strategic finance. You will collaborate with the broader Planning, Analysis and Reporting team to analyse operational and financial performance. Your insights will inform leadership decisions on the actual cost of service provision and innovation.
A key part of this role will be to implement and support the cost modelling capability within the Home Office Digital environment. You will use the TCO model to analyse data, identify cost-saving opportunities, optimise resource allocation, providing valuable insights to forecast future financial needs. This analytical approach will empower the Home Office Digital SMT to make informed decisions that align with its long-term goals and objectives.
With support from the broader team, your work will contribute to the delivery of the Digital First Programme and shape Home Office Digital’s response to the Government Spending Review.
You will also collaborate with finance colleagues to ensure consistency in financial models and accurate reflection of costs associated with delivering digital services. Additionally, you’ll engage with business stakeholders to understand their needs and foster commitment and sponsorship of compelling solutions to planning and reporting challenges.
The role will involve ensuring a standardised approach to costing digital products and services, helping to identify cost drivers and align funding with technology enablement across the Home Office. You will also gain visibility into costing methodologies used within Home Office Digital.
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
* Supporting the development of Home Office Digital's understanding of the cost of delivering products and services to aid accurate decision-making and align funding and technology enablement across the Home Office.
* Manage and maintain the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) model, including (but not limited to) updating input templates and product map, performing roll forward processes, and delivering in-year updates to ensure accurate and timely financial insights.
* Use the TCO model and apply it to scenario planning, t-shirt sizing, and forecasting to support strategic financial planning.
* Analyse financial planning and reporting data that demonstrate the ‘cost driver’ relationships between operational performance and financial metrics, linking Home Office Digital outputs with business requirements.
* Supporting strategic initiatives and planning cycles (including Spending Reviews and Medium-Term Financial Plans) ensuring Home Office Digital spend is aligned with Home Office and cross-government objectives.
* Consolidating resourcing requirements and supply to ensure alignment between the Home Office Digital Workforce Strategy and financial spend.
* Supporting conversations with business units to understand their requirements, engaging with them to develop a 5-year financial forecast, and providing appropriate challenge to future forecasted spending.
* Collaborate with finance colleagues and Home Office Digital portfolios to build a strong strategic narrative and ensure models accurately reflect service delivery costs and ensure there is consistency and clarity in financial modelling.
The above responsibilities are not exhaustive, and post holders may be required to undertake any of the above tasks or additional tasks not listed above, within the remit of their grade, to support the team.
Line Management Responsibilities:
Line management of staff may be included.
Working Pattern
This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 4 days / 30 hours per week due to business requirements.
Applications from job share candidates are welcome, but any job offer is conditional upon a viable job-sharing arrangement being available.
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