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Reference number
989
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Salary
£45326
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London weighting allowance (Per Annum)
£4218
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Role grade
G4
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Contract type
Permanent, Fixed Term Appointment, Loan, Secondment
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Length of employment
24 months
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Please note that the Length of Employment does not include those hired on Permanent contracts.
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Command
Corporate Business Services (CBS)
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Business Area
Finance
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Type of role
Accountancy, Analytical, Audit, Corporate Finance, Finance
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Working pattern
Full time, Part time, Flexible Working, Job share
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Number of roles available
2
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Senior Finance Officer
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Location(s)
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Belfast, Bristol, London, Warrington
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About the Role
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Information about the Command
Corporate Business Services (CBS) is led by the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the NCA and enables the operational capability of the NCA to protect the public from serious and organised crime.
The command includes Business Services, Commercial, Concordis Programme, Estates and Finance. Together, these functions ensure the NCA's activity is financially and commercially compliant, helps achieve value for money and improves the Agency financial capabilities and performance. CBS also aligns the NCA estates strategy in promoting a safe, secure and compliant estate with delivering a fit for purpose vehicle Fleet in line with a sustainability and fleet strategy.
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Information about the Business Area
The Finance team provide effective and timely financial and management reports, in line with business requirements and both statutory and regulatory duties, including supporting documentation to audit standard, ensuring that NCA complies with general accounting standards and internal corporate governance requirements. The Finance Management Team also help Commands develop budget and savings proposals to inform the negotiations on future budget delegations.
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Role Summary
As a member of either the Finance Business Partnering Team, Strategic Finance Team, Transactional Services Support Team or Financial Control Team, you will actively support the Finance Manager and manage a team within the Finance Department which provides finance support to the wider business to help the NCA deliver its business objectives. This role will be suitable for those with a Level 4 financial qualification and experience of working in a finance department, looking to develop their career further with responsibility for managing a team to deliver financial reporting
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Role Description
Depending on the Team that you are posted in, your role could cover any of the following areas:
- You could be accountable for the delivery of a management accounting service for specific business areas, teams and projects, ensuring reporting and transactional accuracy. You will be able to demonstrate your ability to develop relationships, understand the business of NCA commands and communicate financial data and other information clearly and provide valuable financial advice, challenge and support;
- You could be responsible for supporting the Strategic Finance Team with monitoring the Agency’s strategic financial position, by reporting to stakeholders, tracking the Agency’s financial position and contributing to financial planning in the short and longer term including supporting business planning priorities;
- You could be part of the Financial Control Team, including preparing the statutory accounts, maintaining the non current asset register, liaising with internal and external stakeholders such as NAO and HMRC
- You could be a part of the Transactional Services / Payroll function providing transactional processing key service delivery functions.
The role descriptions are not exhaustive but gives an indication of the type of duties usually carried out within these teams at this level.
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Duties and Responsibilities
Support Finance Business Partners - Help commands to develop budget and savings proposals to inform the negotiations on future budget delegations.
Provide financial and management reports - Provide effective and timely financial and management reports in line with business requirements and both statutory and regulatory duties, including supporting documentation to audit standard, ensuring that the NCA complies with general accounting standards and the NCA's corporate governance requirements.
Financial advice - Provide financial advice to budget holders and project leads, finance and wider Agency colleagues or external partners such as HMRC, HMT and NAO as required.
Develop policy, reports and procedures - Supervise research, development, collation, co-ordination and dissemination of management information, including policy, reports, briefings, business plans, risk registers, presentations and web-based communications, as appropriate.
Manage a team - Manage a team within the Finance Department, responsible for providing management accounts/financial accounts support of an area of business (as designated) and to manage and monitor expenditure/income for that area.
Budget Management - Produce monthly variance analyses, ensuring corrections and changes to both actual costs, forecasts and budgets are identified and accurately reflected on the finance system.
Manage and direct resources - Ensure work is completed within agreed timescales/financial constraints and quality standards, in line with NCA policy.
Data Assurance - Secure handling and dissemination of data/information, maintaining confidentiality, sensitivity and a duty of care in line with NCA policy.
Finance System Management - Develop an understanding of the financial system within the NCA and the relationships between the various systems and tools so that accurate and consistent information is produced together with ad hoc reports as and when required.
Managing relationships with stakeholders - Develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders in order to foster collaborative working.
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Person Specification
Strong numerical skills - The ability to quantify and manipulate financial data.
Strong analytical skills - Able to analyse data from multiple sources.
Proficient in Microsoft Office - Good Excel skills relating to analysing data, information and statistics from a wide range of sources
Technical understanding of finance systems - Good technical knowledge of accounting processes, policies, statutory requirements and internal controls.
Finance policy within public sector - Good knowledge of Finance policy within public sector
Customer Service Experience - Able to communicate with internal and external stakeholders
Line Management - Developing individuals in a finance environment.
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Essential Criteria
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You must meet the essential criteria and evidence this within your application to be considered for the role.
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Qualifications, Membership and Licences
Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB or CIMA or equivalent qualification.
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Any applications from candidates not meeting this eligibility criteria will not progress.
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Salary
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Allowances are reviewed annually and may be increased, decreased or removed.
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All salary offers will be made in line with Remuneration Policy.
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Roles based in London will receive an additional London Weighting (Per Annum) of £4218
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Benefits
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All NCA employees are members of the UK Civil Service and eligible for the Civil Service pension scheme, alongside your salary the NCA contributes £13130. Further information on the benefits of the scheme is available on the Civil Service Pension Website.
New entrants to the NCA receive 26 days annual leave, rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service, plus 8 bank holidays.
If qualifying criteria is met new joiners from UK Police Forces or the UK Intelligence Community (UKIC) will have service with those employers taken into account for continuous service purposes for annual leave entitlement only, this will be up to a maximum of 31 days leave (including 1 privilege day).
Other benefits include:
Flexible working, including flexi-time, compressed hours and job sharing (in line with business requirements)
Family friendly policies, notably above the statutory minimum
Learning and Development opportunities
Interest free loans and advances, including season tickets, childcare and rental deposits
Housing schemes - Key Worker status
Discounts and Savings with a wide variety of services including Cycle to Work, Smart Tech schemes, dental insurance, gym discounts and savings on everyday spending, available through the Reward Gateway | Edenred and Blue Light Card schemes.
Staff support groups/networks
Sports and social activities, including membership to the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC)
Further information is available on the NCA Website.
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Selection Process Details
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This vacancy is using the Success Profiles framework and will assess using the following criteria: Behaviours, Technical Skills
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Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
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How we will assess you
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Your application will be assessed against the following:
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Technical - this will be assessed by 250 word examples on:
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Strong numerical and analytical skills with the ability to quantify, analysis and present financial data.
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Strong customer service and stakeholder management skills
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Technical understanding of finance systems, processes and control environments.
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A panel will assess how well your application demonstrates the requirements outlined above.
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Longlist
In the event of a high number of applications, we may operate a longlist. Applicants will need to meet the minimum pass mark for the lead criteria.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills with the ability to quantify, analysis and present financial data. .
Candidates who do not meet the minimum pass mark for the lead criteria will not progress to having their other criteria assessed. Applications must meet the minimum criteria to be progressed to the assessment stage.
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You will receive an acknowledgement once your application is submitted.
We aim to have sift completed and scores released within 10 working days of the closing date of the advert. For high volume campaigns this timeframe may be extended.
Scores will be provided but further feedback will not be available at this stage.
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For guidance on the application process, visit:
NCA Applying and Onboarding
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Assessment 1
The format of this assessment will be Interview which will be tested on the criteria listed in the Success Profiles at Assessment section.
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Success Profiles at Assessment
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Behaviours
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Delivering at Pace
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Communicating and Influencing
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Technical
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Strong numerical and analytical skills with the ability to quantify, analysis and present financial data.
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Strong customer service and stakeholder management skills
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Technical understanding of finance systems, processes and control environments.
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Assessment Outcome
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Outcomes will be communicated via the NCA recruitment portal.
If successful but no role is immediately available, you may be placed on a reserve list for 12 months.
Reserve lists can be used to fill similar role types across the Agency where the assessment criteria is considered a match by the recruitment team and the business area.
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In the event of a tie at the assessment stage, available roles will be offered in merit order using the following order:
Lead criteria (behaviours/technical/experience)
If still tied, desirable criteria will be assessed (if advertised)
If still tied, application sift scores will be used
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Feedback is provided only to those who attend an assessment.
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You will be subject to vetting and pre-employment checks before appointment.
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Once the vacancy closes, the advert will no longer be accessible. Please save a copy for your records.
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We encourage all candidates to visit the NCA Careers Page for more information.
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Eligibility, Pre-Employment Check and Vetting
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Please see the NCA T&Cs and Privacy Policy (pdf) for details on how your data is handled.
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If you are an internal candidate who has passed interview but is undergoing an internal investigation or have a written warning in place preventing a post move you may not be able to be posted until this investigation is concluded or restriction lifted.
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Nationality Requirements
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This role is broadly open to the following groups:
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- UK nationals or dual nationals, where one component is British
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- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
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- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- Individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
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- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Further information on nationality requirements
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You will be required to participate in digital right to work and address checks as part of the recruitment process.
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Security and Vetting
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People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks.
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Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is SC Enhanced. All security clearances will be managed by the NCA.
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For more information on security vetting please visit: UK Security Vetting guidance for applicants and Demystifying Vetting and see our vetting charter at: The Vetting Charter.
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Vetting requirements - SC Enhanced
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Prior to commencing the role, you will need to successfully complete SC Enhanced clearance.
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The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
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Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.
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For further information on National Security Vetting checks please visit the following page Demystifying Vetting
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Individuals will be required to undertake and pass a substance misuse test as part of pre-employment checks.
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Occupational Health
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Successful candidates will be expected to undertake an occupational health assessment. Depending on the role an in-person medical may be required in either London or Warrington. Unfortunately, travel costs will not be reimbursed.
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Things you need to know
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Multi Location
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Where multiple locations are advertised, appointments will be made in merit order for each location.
Please indicate up to three location preferences clearly. Only your first three preferences will be considered. You may be allocated to any of the locations you select. If you decline an offer for a location you have selected as a preference, a further offer may not be made.
If you choose to reject an offer and no alternative preferred location can be offered, you will not be able to return to the process or be placed on a reserve list.
Only the advertised locations are available; any additional notes added to the application will not be taken into account.
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Near Miss
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If you meet the criteria for a lower grade, you may be offered that role if not appointable at the advertised grade.
Conversely, if found appointable at a higher grade but no posts are available, you may be offered a lower-grade role.
All offers are made based on merit.
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Hybrid Working
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The NCA supports hybrid working. The extent of remote working will depend on the role and can be discussed at the offer stage.
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Reasonable Adjustments
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We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Leader and an inclusive, equal opportunities employer.
We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone can be their authentic self. If you’re neurodiverse, have a disability, or live with a long-term health condition, we encourage you to let us know about any reasonable adjustments you may need during the recruitment process.
If you experience accessibility issues with the advert or require reasonable adjustments, please contact our Recruitment Team at
[email protected] before the advert closing date.
Please ensure you complete the ‘Equal opportunities’ and 'Reasonable Adjustments' sections in the application form to inform us on what support you may need in the recruitment process.
For more on our Disability Confident commitment, visit Disability Confident Scheme | Civil Service Careers.
Visit NCA Benefits and Support for more details.
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Inclusion
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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 and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
In order to monitor the effectiveness of the National Crime Agency's Diversity & Inclusion strategy, we require certain personal details about you on submission of your application for statistical and monitoring purposes only. Please note that this will be treated in confidence and will not impact your application.
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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.
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Working for the Civil Service
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The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit on merit through fair and open competition, in line with the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.
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.
If you believe your application has not been treated fairly, email:
[email protected] (quoting the vacancy reference).
If unresolved, you may escalate your complaint to the Civil Service Commission.
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Working for the NCA
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The National Crime Agency is a 24/7 organisation, and working patterns must support business requirements. Some roles may require you to respond at short notice or outside of core hours.
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If preferable, alternative contract types may be available. Please review the green bar of this advert to view all available contract types for this role. Where Loan or Secondment options are available, these would be for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) or any other employer (Secondment). Prior agreement to be released on a loan basis must be obtained before commencing the application process. In the case of Civil Servants, the terms of the loan will be agreed between the home and host department and the Civil Servant. This includes grade on return.
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If you have any specific queries about the role that are not covered by the advert, please contact:
Name : Central Recruitment Team
Email : [email protected]
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