UK Government Relations Manager

UK Government - Disclosure & Barring Service


Senior Financial Accountant
UK Government - Disclosure & Barring Service • Darlington, United Kingdom • via Glassdoor
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£38.7K–£43.3K a year
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Job description
Senior Financial Accountant

Location: Liverpool/Darlington. Can work remotely but must attend office based on business needs

Job Purpose:

As the Senior Financial Accountant, your role will be to support and develop the Financial Accounts team, providing guidance and support in establishing a controls-based environment, to provide advice, and develop policies, to improve compliance with accounting standards, tax regulations, and other government financial reporting requirements.

You will also be responsible for supporting the delivery of an efficient, effective and high-quality professional service meeting all reporting requirements.

Key Responsibilities:
• Management and development of the Financial Accounts team
• Leading the DBS monthly accounting process
• Preparing the interim and year end DBS financial statements ensuring compliance with relevant legislation
• Providing technical and clear advice on the application of accounting standards, the development of accounting policies, and tax/financial control issues
• Developing, reviewing and enhancing key models critical for year-end accounting purposes
• Providing input into, or producing statutory and civil service wide reports such as the Fraud and Error return
• Developing, maintaining and assuring the financial controls utilised throughout the DBS
• Managing DBS banking arrangements, including the supporting the management of cash flow
• Overseeing the stewardship of DBS requisitioning, working with business areas to minimise the number of open purchase orders and to support prompt payment of invoices
• Overseeing the fixed asset recording process
• Liaising with internal and external auditors
• Identifying process and system improvements
• Day to day management of relevant commercial contracts

About you:

To be successful in this role you will have:
• Experience within a Financial Accountant role and the ability to draw upon practicable experience of managing multiple deliverables to tight timescales whilst implementing financial controls
• Proven ability to communicate matters to a non-financial audience and to build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels and experience of managing, coaching and developing a team.
• The ability to lead the annual report and accounts production process and support the external audit process
• Sound knowledge of latest accounting standards and developing financial policies, frameworks and procedures

Qualifications/Technical Ability

You must hold an accounting qualification from a recognised CCAB accountancy body or CIMA, or be part-qualified or progressing towards the achievement of this

Successful candidates must meet BPSS  security requirements before they can be appointed.

What you will get in Return

Alongside your salary of £38,700 - £43,300 DBS contributes 28.+7% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. 

In addition, the DBS offers a number of excellent benefits for its employees. These can include:
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption schemes (after a qualifying period)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible working opportunities
• Eyecare voucher scheme
• Occupational Health Service including referrals for counselling and physiotherapy
• 24/7 Counselling and Wellbeing Service
• Dental insurance policy benefit
• Car parking/cycle to work scheme
• Free flu jabs
• Reward & recognition scheme
• 5 days per year for learning and development

Additionally, an Accountancy Allowance is applicable for individuals who are part or fully qualified of up to a maximum of £4,500, depending on the level of progression achieved through the professional accountancy qualification. This allowance is non-consolidated.

About the Department:

DBS was established under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 on 1 December 2012, operating from two sites, Liverpool and Darlington. We operate on behalf of government delivering Disclosure functions in England, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, and Barring functions for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

We operate in the complex world of safeguarding alongside our multi agency partners. Safeguarding means protecting people’s health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.

We provide a service that enables organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors to make better informed, safer recruitment and other decisions. We do this by providing information to enable them to determine whether individuals are unsuitable or unable to undertake certain work, particularly with occupations involving regular contact with vulnerable groups, including children.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £38,700.00-£43,300.00 per year

Benefits:
• Company pension
• Work from home

Work Location: In person
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UK Government Relations Manager
Babcock International • London, United Kingdom • via Indeed
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Job description
UK Government Relations Manager

Location: Westminster, London, GB, W1U 1QX

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: UK Government Relations Manager
Location: Wigmore Street, London + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF62475

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a UK Government Relations Manager at our Wigmore Street site.

The role
As a UK Government Relations Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Supporting the Head of UK Government Relations in the planning, coordination and delivery of Babcock’s UK public affairs strategy and outputs, taking personal ownership of particular sectors, groups, projects and on-going tasks/responsibilities.

Day-to-day, you’ll work across the group and central functions in support of business development, events and communications activities as required.
• Work in a team with Head of UK Government Relations and UK Government Relations Manager to deliver full UK public affairs capability spanning Westminster, Whitehall and Hollyrood to deliver on Corporate Strategic Aims.
• Help advise senior management on key new policy areas, legislative proposals, and regulatory issues – both risks and opportunities - that affect the business in the UK.
• Assist with the development and execution of sector-specific campaigns to achieve wider business aims.
• Prepare briefing material for senior colleagues, including CEO, Sector CEOs, and board members, ahead of meetings with Parliamentarians.
• Assist with the writing, editing, and distributing of a (monthly) newsletter for Parliamentarians, working with colleagues across the business to source and shape copy and narrative aligned to company aims.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days onsite and two days working from home. UK Travel will be required to Scotland and Devonport and flexibility to attend breakfast/evening meetings as and when required.

Essential experience of the UK Government Relations Manager:
• Good working knowledge of the current political scene, UK government and Parliamentary processes, party political structures and key political contacts
• Good working knowledge of the current Scottish political scene
• Experience of planning and delivering successful public affairs campaigns
• Experience of working in Parliament, Think tank or Public Affairs Agency
• Experience of working directly with government

Qualifications for the UK Government Relations Manager:
• Educated to degree level or equivalent in relevant subject

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer
• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 26/02/2025

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