Area Finance Manager
Posted 1 day ago by Crown Prosecution Service
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Area Finance Manager role within the Serious Economic Organised Crime and International Directorate (SEOCID) Business Centre involves overseeing financial processes and systems, ensuring accuracy and compliance with national policies. The position requires translating complex financial data into actionable insights for senior management while managing a team and supporting their development. The role is based in Birmingham and requires travel to temporary offices as part of the responsibilities. Candidates must have a working knowledge of finance and excel at an intermediate level.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee key financial processes and systems, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and efficiency.
- Ensure local financial controls are understood and applied by senior managers.
- Deliver training and direction in finance, budgeting, purchasing, and fraud prevention.
- Lead assurance activities to check compliance with national CPS policies and external guidance.
- Develop efficiency plans to maintain budget compliance throughout the financial year.
- Provide advice and support to business managers in managing budgets and financial systems.
Key Skills:
- Working knowledge of Excel to at least intermediate level.
- Understanding of finance, accounting, or budget management.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to translate financial information into understandable insights.
- Experience in line management and team development.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Location Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
About The Job
The Serious Economic Organised Crime and International Directorate (SEOCID) Business Centre is responsible for a range of key business areas, supporting and delivering a professional business service including HR, Performance Management, Finance, Communications, Public Accountability and Inclusion, Change and Assurance.
As an area finance manager, you will be a key member of the finance team, bringing clarity to complex data and systems, making sense of the numbers for colleagues and senior managers alike. You will take pride in your attention to detail and have a natural interest in translating financial information into insights others can understand and act on. You will be responsible for overseeing key financial processes and systems, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and efficiency. With line management responsibility, you will support and develop team members while maintaining high standards and delivering results.
The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you’re applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. There’s no guarantee that we will grant this approval. You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline. If successful, you are required to secure a Security Clearance (SC), further information can be found below.
As part of this role, you are expected to undertake direct line management responsibilities. If you’re a current Crown Prosecution Service employee, you remain based at your permanent office location throughout the post. You’re expected to travel to the temporary office at least 40% of your contracted hours over a four-week period – travel and subsistence may be applicable. If you have any questions, please contact Connie.Hill@cps.gov.uk.
Job Description
You will ensure that local financial controls are understood and applied by senior managers and other relevant individuals. In partnership with HQ Finance, you will ensure the delivery of appropriate training and direction in finance, budgeting, purchasing and fraud prevention. You will ensure compliance with national CPS policies and external guidance and lead assurance activity to check that controls are in place and being acted on, escalating as appropriate. In partnership with senior managers, you will develop efficiency plans detailing strategies and activities to enable the Area to remain within budget for the duration of the financial year and overall Spending Review period. You will proactively provide advice, assistance and support to the ASB and business managers in the management of their budgets, business cases, capital bids and financial systems, ensuring that there is full compliance with the national guidance, systems, processes and procedures and financial implications of decisions are properly considered.
Person Specification
To be eligible to apply, you need to:
- Have a working knowledge of excel to at least intermediate level
- Have a working knowledge of finance, accounting, or budget management
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £34,680, Crown Prosecution Service contributes £10,046 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. Join the Crown Prosecution Service and find your purpose. We also offer the following range of benefits:
- Civil Service contributory pension of up to 28.9%
- 25 days’ leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years
- £350 each year to spend on personal development
- lawyer training programme for all new prosecutors
- an extra privilege day to mark the King's birthday
- competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
- flexible working including flexitime, and a family friendly approach to work
- Cycle2Work scheme, employee savings.
Contact point for applicants
Job contact : Name : Connie Hill Email : Connie.Hill@cps.gov.uk
Recruitment team Email : strategic.resourcing@cps.gov.uk