Director of Finance, Commercial, Sustainability and Property

Birmingham, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Exeter, Ipswich, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Stratford

Job Summary

The Insolvency Service is a government agency at the forefront of supporting individuals and businesses facing financial difficulties. We play a vital role in ensuring fair markets and contribute significantly to the UK economy's health.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We actively support ten employee network groups, including LGBT+, FACES, Disability & Health, Mind Matters, Women's, The Shed, Carers, Part Time Workers, No Limits, and Grass Roots.

We offer flexible working arrangements including part-time roles, job shares, and hybrid options. We prioritise professional development, investing in our employees' growth through learning and development opportunities.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Finance professional to join the Insolvency Service Executive Leadership Team as Director of Finance Commercial Sustainability and Property.

This is an exceptional opportunity to make a significant impact and lead the teams helping to make sure the insolvency regime works for the UK. You'll join our senior leadership team and play a pivotal role in shaping our future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing Financial Operations: Manage all financial operations, including accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Corporate Guardianship: Accountable and responsible for the overall corporate guardianship of the budgets and protection of the accounting officer.
• Strategic Financial Guidance: Provide strategic financial guidance to the Chief Executive and the Executive Leadership Team.
• Financial Planning and Analysis: Drive financial planning and analysis to support business objectives.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate to build and maintain excellent relationships with internal functions and stakeholders to manage risk and ensure sound financial decision-making.
• Leadership of Functions: Lead and support the Finance, Commercial and Sustainability & Property functions, ensuring compliance and optimising processes and achieving deliverables in relation to:
• Agency financial sustainability strategy.
• FCSP-owned targets in the Agency Annual Plan.
• Agency Commercial function, driving VFM and ensuring compliance with legislation.
• Property function ensuring Agency TWP project has appropriate professional support and advice, and that our estate portfolio and associated Facilities Management is managed effectively and professionally.
• Delivering onboarding to the Government Property Agency.
• Delivering of Agency sustainability strategy.
• Agency H&S function.
• Agency physical security function.
• Agency business continuity activities ensuring fit for purpose.
• This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by.
  
  

We are seeking an experienced Finance professional to join the Insolvency Service Executive Leadership Team as Director of Finance Commercial Sustainability and Property.

This is an exceptional opportunity to make a significant impact and lead the teams helping to make sure the insolvency regime works for the UK. You'll join our senior leadership team and play a pivotal role in shaping our future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing Financial Operations: Manage all financial operations, including accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
• Corporate Guardianship: Accountable and responsible for the overall corporate guardianship of the budgets and protection of the accounting officer.
• Strategic Financial Guidance: Provide strategic financial guidance to the Chief Executive and the Executive Leadership Team.
• Financial Planning and Analysis: Drive financial planning and analysis to support business objectives.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate to build and maintain excellent relationships with internal functions and stakeholders to manage risk and ensure sound financial decision-making.
• Leadership of Functions: Lead and support the Finance, Commercial and Sustainability & Property functions, ensuring compliance and optimising processes and achieving deliverables in relation to:
• Agency financial sustainability strategy.
• FCSP-owned targets in the Agency Annual Plan.
• Agency Commercial function, driving VFM and ensuring compliance with legislation.
• Property function ensuring Agency TWP project has appropriate professional support and advice, and that our estate portfolio and associated Facilities Management is managed effectively and professionally.
• Delivering onboarding to the Government Property Agency.
• Delivering of Agency sustainability strategy.
• Agency H&S function.
• Agency physical security function.
• Agency business continuity activities ensuring fit for purpose.
• This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by.
  
  

Person specification

Essential Skills

To excel in this role, you will possess:

• Professional Qualifications: Qualified with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent professional qualification as required as a Finance Director/ Chief Financial Officer.
• Comprehensive Finance Knowledge: Knowledge and experience across all finance areas including financial control, reporting, assurance, performance in a complex and/or regulated business; with a high level of relevant professional, technical skills.
• Track Record of Success: An outstanding track record in leading strong financial management and delivering value for money.
• Project Leadership: Project leadership experience is highly desirable (but not essential).
• Strategic Direction: Experience of developing and delivering the strategic direction of a complex organisation. An ability to confidently, clearly and credibly influence strategic planning.
• Strong Leadership Skills: Strong leadership skills, and the ability to motivate and develop a set of functions, promoting operational excellence whilst leading teams through a period of significant change.
• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Bring strategic analytical rigour coupled with pragmatic problem solving and business insight to address complex financial and operational situations. High capacity to drive innovative approaches that can be implemented.
• Relationship Building: Successfully built and maintained broad diverse networks and relationships, using communication and collaboration skills to challenge assumptions, negotiate and influence the direction in complex, ambiguous regulated environments.
• Adaptability: Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
  
  

Qualifications

Qualified with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent professional qualification as required as a Finance Director/ Chief Financial Officer.

Alongside your salary of £76,000, Insolvency Service contributes £22,017 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
  
  

Selection process details

To apply for this post please follow the instructions on the CS Jobs website by no later than 23:55pm on 10/3/25. As part of the application process you are asked to complete the following:

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a 1250-word personal statement, CV and Behaviours. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form. Your personal statement should be no more than 1250 words and should explain how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria, behaviours and values in the person specification.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

Behaviours: We will test your experience and Behaviours as part of the sift process, if successful you will be invited to an interview and presentation where we will test your Behaviours.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: (sift stage)

• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Seeing the Big Picture
  
  

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job Contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment
• Email : [email protected]
  
  

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