PS/1089/H - A6 - Management Accountant - Finance Services
Police Staff
Finance
Hertfordshire Constabulary
Headquarters, WGC, Herts
Management Accounts
Permanent
A6
£40,719 - £49,962
Full Time
No
*** Please note that this vacancy has now closed and is available to redeployees only; it will not be checked on a regular basis by the recruitment team. It is therefore essential that if you apply for this role, you e-mail BCHCareers@herts.pnn.police.uk to notify us that you have submitted an application. We will then process it for shortlisting. If you do not notify us by e-mail that you have submitted an application, it will not be picked up. Please also ensure that you notify your allocated Change Advisor of any redeployee applications that you have submitted.
Redeployees who apply will be given priority over any other internal applicants for permanent roles up until the point that an offer has been accepted either verbally or in writing.
If a role is not filled by an internal candidate and is advertised externally, redeployees will continue to get priority over external applicants until a successful candidate has received a final offer of employment.***
The BCH Management Accounts Team is responsible for providing high quality financial advice and support to key stakeholders, including operational Police Commanders, for collaborated units shared between Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. These budgets total circa £100 million and include specialist areas such as Major Crime, Armed Policing, Scientific Services and Support Services such as Human Resources, Learning and Development, Information Technology and Criminal Justice.
This exciting opportunity, based at Hertfordshire Police HQ in Welwyn Garden City, has arisen and will involve leading a team of 3 Assistant Management Accountants who provide support to these collaborated units, developing excellent procedures to provide the business with high quality budget management information to facilitate strategic decision making. This role is particularly suited to candidates who are looking for an exciting challenge and wish to develop their career to the next level.
Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to;
• Provision of strategic financial advice and support to Collaborative Heads of department including delivery of high level reports, and making presentations and recommendations to enable maximum operational performance within the funds available
• To lead a team in providing a management accounting service to all Collaborative departments including accurate and timely budget monitors appropriate for local and corporate reporting needs
• Promote internal review and challenge across the Collaborative Departments with a view to identifying and promoting best practice and driving efficiency and productivity improvements
• Provision of management information, including benchmarking, to enable optimum use of overtime budgets and promote best practice in the management and control of overtime
• Prepare budgets in accordance with corporate guidelines (annual and medium term)
• With Collaborative SMTs, pro-actively contribute to maximising external funding opportunities
• Provide costings for business cases
• Manage the corporate financial implications of the Police Pay Budget, including the police pay budgeted strength (and also manage corporate aspects of police staff budgeted strength) - through close working with Workforce Planning
• Provide management information and financial support to Collaborative Chief Officers
• Ensure accounts for Collaborative departments are closed on an accurate and timely basis at the year-end as a part of Forces corporate closedown arrangements.
For an informal discussion about this role please contact Rob Stuckey on 01707 354259.
For the purposes of the application you will be expected to provide evidence against the personal qualities below and the entry requirements:
• We take ownership
• We are collaborative
• We deliver, support and inspire
• We analyse critically
• We are innovative and open-minded
There is a word count limit of 500 words per section
* All applications must be submitted through our online recruitment website by clicking the apply button below.
*** Please note that this advert will be live to redeployees throughout the recruitment of this advert. Any redeployee that applies will only need to evidence against the minimum entry requirements of the role profile. To do this if you are a redeployee, write ‘Redeployee’ in the other competency boxes and just complete your evidence against the minimum entry requirements in the relevant box. Redeployees will take priority over other candidates at any point during the recruitment process up until a final offer is produced and you will be notified if this happens.
Redeployees who apply will be given priority over any other internal applicants for permanent roles up until the point that an offer has been accepted either verbally or in writing.
If a role is not filled by an internal candidate and is advertised externally, redeployees will continue to get priority over external applicants until a successful candidate has received a final offer of employment.***
The BCH Management Accounts Team is responsible for providing high quality financial advice and support to key stakeholders, including operational Police Commanders, for collaborated units shared between Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. These budgets total circa £100 million and include specialist areas such as Major Crime, Armed Policing, Scientific Services and Support Services such as Human Resources, Learning and Development, Information Technology and Criminal Justice.
This exciting opportunity, based at Hertfordshire Police HQ in Welwyn Garden City, has arisen and will involve leading a team of 3 Assistant Management Accountants who provide support to these collaborated units, developing excellent procedures to provide the business with high quality budget management information to facilitate strategic decision making. This role is particularly suited to candidates who are looking for an exciting challenge and wish to develop their career to the next level.
Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to;
• Provision of strategic financial advice and support to Collaborative Heads of department including delivery of high level reports, and making presentations and recommendations to enable maximum operational performance within the funds available
• To lead a team in providing a management accounting service to all Collaborative departments including accurate and timely budget monitors appropriate for local and corporate reporting needs
• Promote internal review and challenge across the Collaborative Departments with a view to identifying and promoting best practice and driving efficiency and productivity improvements
• Provision of management information, including benchmarking, to enable optimum use of overtime budgets and promote best practice in the management and control of overtime
• Prepare budgets in accordance with corporate guidelines (annual and medium term)
• With Collaborative SMTs, pro-actively contribute to maximising external funding opportunities
• Provide costings for business cases
• Manage the corporate financial implications of the Police Pay Budget, including the police pay budgeted strength (and also manage corporate aspects of police staff budgeted strength) - through close working with Workforce Planning
• Provide management information and financial support to Collaborative Chief Officers
• Ensure accounts for Collaborative departments are closed on an accurate and timely basis at the year-end as a part of Forces corporate closedown arrangements.
For an informal discussion about this role please contact Rob Stuckey on 01707 354259.
For the purposes of the application you will be expected to provide evidence against the personal qualities below and the entry requirements:
• We take ownership
• We are collaborative
• We deliver, support and inspire
• We analyse critically
• We are innovative and open-minded
There is a word count limit of 500 words per section
* All applications must be submitted through our online recruitment website by clicking the apply button below.
*** Please note that this advert will be live to redeployees throughout the recruitment of this advert. Any redeployee that applies will only need to evidence against the minimum entry requirements of the role profile. To do this if you are a redeployee, write ‘Redeployee’ in the other competency boxes and just complete your evidence against the minimum entry requirements in the relevant box. Redeployees will take priority over other candidates at any point during the recruitment process up until a final offer is produced and you will be notified if this happens.
4 October 2019
This opportunity is closed to applications.
