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Finance Business Analyst x 2 - Commercial Directorate

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Posted By: DWP
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Date Posted: 13th Oct 2008
Salary: Flexible starting salary from £24,410-£29,500
Location: Sheffield
Reference Code: ADV332978MSJ1
Views Since Posting: 42
Full Description:

The Department for Work & Pensions is one of Europe’s largest financial institutions responsible for over £100 billion each year. If you are looking for your next challenge in a large, complex, and transforming business then the DWP can offer you progressive opportunities as part of its Finance Transformation Programme.

This next phase of our programme offers posts in London, Leeds, Newcastle, Norcross and Sheffield for ambitious and proactive part and fully qualified accountants. Are you ready to drive forward change and take others with you? Collaborative, customer focused and continuously improving, our finance community sets and achieves high standards.

Key Responsibilities

*To support the development of commercial performance management across the Commercial Directorate (CD).
*To ensure that CD becomes an exemplar of good practice and develop products and techniques that can be adopted across all commercial teams
*To track demand and financial impact of commodity consumption and analyse key opportunities for future efficiencies.
*To utilise Oracle resource management to automate financial processes and generate new reporting products and NIS to support strategic commercial decision-making.
*Work in partnership with commercial teams to undertake financial modelling and deliver ad-hoc reports to assess financial return through contract management initiatives.
*To ensure optimum use of e-enabled solutions within this area of work.
*To support the development and promotion of sustainable procurement and use of procurement to promote socially desirable objectives. To ensure compliance with the public sector’s sustainability agenda and any other social priority areas as defined by policy colleagues, as appropriate to this area.

Qualifications:

*Full or part qualified CCAB membership (or internationally recognised equivalents), or a full membership of AAT is required for this role.

Key skills/experience:

*Financial management and analysis experience
*Ideally you will have a commercial background or knowledge of DWP financial systems
*Excellent IT skills including advanced Excel
*Ability to inform financial decisions using financial data
*Strong verbal communication skills-the ability to communicate financial information to non-financial colleagues

Benefits

*Performance related bonus
*Generous holiday entitlement rising up to 30 days
*10.5 days public and privilege holidays for full time staff, pro rated for part- time staff
*Benefits include a choice of valuable pensions arrangements.
*policies to help you balance work and home life, including the possibility of a variety of work patterns and flexible working

Ref Code: ADV332978MSJ1
Closing Date: 02/04/08
Salary: Flexible starting salary from £24,410-£29,500
Position Type: Permanent