About the job

Job summary

As the newly formed section of MOD - Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) sits at the heart of Defence, giving us the winning edge in an ever-uncertain and competitive world. Every single operation relies on the connectivity and skills we offer the whole of the Armed Forces. The CSOC Finance Function supports multiple Service Directorates - Cyber, the Headquarters; Defence Medical Services; Defence Intelligence; Special Operations; iGlobal Defence Network; and Permanent Joint Headquarters. Following implementation of Finance Transformation in January 2025, the function is now made up of over 180 finance personnel across Finance Operations, Specialist Services, Finance Business Partnering Teams and Finance Military Operations.

Management Reporting supports the business areas in translating operational activity to financial outputs, working alongside business management, finance business partners and other functions to ensure reporting against both in-year forecast and long term plans.

Management Reporting are expected to perform important month end activities, ensure accuracy, and provide supporting information to assist the team in the production of financial reports. Ensuring that financial reporting is accurately completed both within corporate reporting systems and for input of accounting entries to support decision making.

The G7 leads the various sub-teams enabling post-transformation activities to be cohered, made consistent as well as taking into account service performance levels for finance business partners and the business when prioritising work.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week, with expected office attendance of 60% at a MOD location(s), and travel to other locations as required.

Job description

• Collaborating with various teams including wider finance teams, Plans, Specialist Services, Management Information, Business Management, Commercial to ensure joined up approach.
• Ensure the management reporting meets end user needs and is presented to best convey key messages using continuous improvement principles.
• Ensuring that financial reporting is accurately completed both within corporate reporting systems and for input of accounting entries to support decision making.
• Providing intelligent insight of complex financial information, drawing out common themes and understanding linkages and dependencies and providing incisive explanations and clear summaries/interpretations and translating data into meaningful outputs for senior leadership, business areas and wider Finance.
• Maintaining a strong understanding of the overall financial position of business area(s) and providing the consolidated financial position at various levels within the organisation.
• Utilising information obtained from Finance Business Partners to maximise knowledge and support future decisions.

Routine requirements

• Producing instructions for completion of both IYM and long term planning (1-10 years, ABC), setting and agreeing the internal timelines for completion considering Strategic Head Office requirements.
• Providing various information and outputs to expected standards, including standardised reports / dashboards for monthly financial reviews and long term planning (ABC) screenings highlighting areas of concern to the relevant Finance Business Partner to discuss with their business area(s), input into profiling, In-Year reporting and ABC information.
• Producing standardised templates / forms for recurring requests, advising what information
• Managing the completion of routine activities that provide the foundation to accurate reporting including implementation of accounting advice received or policy changes, including monitoring.

Managing your team within Management Reporting

• Management of team members, empowering, motivating, and coaching to enable effective delivery.
• Supporting individual’s personal development, careers and developing leadership skills within their team. Ensuring you and the team make time to develop themselves and their peers.
• Being open to challenge and latest ideas, sharing of knowledge and experience, encouraging others through building a supportive team environment.

Continuous improvement

• Dedicating time to sharing best practice and ideas for refining standardised processes and procedures feeding back key proposed changes to process owners, enabling consistency across the MOD finance function.
• Continuously strive to improve the service provision, promptly addressing issues and ensuring that processes or ways of working are adapted, and customers are informed where there is an impact.

Person specification

Essential

• Qualified with a CCAB/CIMA accountancy qualification.
• An excellent leader and manager, who will empower their team to deliver whilst providing support and guidance to develop them, you will lead colleagues across Finance and the Service Directorates through significant change to ways of working, process re-engineering, automation, training and tooling.
• Significant Experience in a Finance environmentwith an ability to understand and interpret complex business and financial requirements
• A strong communicator, with the ability to discuss with various stakeholders, from finance and non-finance functions

Desirable

• An understanding of how MOD / CSOC operates given the breadth and diversity and its highly delegated model.
• Experience of Agile Delivery and Scrum.
• An excellent ability to balance a range of competing priorities drawing on good judgement, initiative and able to coordinate the team accordingly.
• A self-starter capable of working independently from high-level strategic direction.
• Strong written and oral briefing skills.

Qualifications

• Qualified with a CCAB/CIMA accountancy qualification.

Memberships

• CIMA/CCAB

Behaviours

We\'ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

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

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £59,690, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,292 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%

Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 8th October 2025

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