Description
This role provides essential support to DBT's Estimates and cash management processes, ensuring the department meets parliamentary and HMT requirements accurately and on time.
Working as part of the Estimates & Analysis Team, the postholder will help prepare the Main and Supplementary Estimates, support cash monitoring, and contribute to high-quality in-year financial reporting.
The role involves gathering and validating financial data, coordinating inputs from across the department, and supporting clear, consistent financial products.
It offers an excellent opportunity to build experience in core government finance, develop strong analytical skills, and work closely with colleagues across the wider Strategic Finance function.
The role suits someone with good attention to detail, strong organisational skills, and an interest in departmental budgets, parliamentary controls and central government processes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support preparation of the Main and Supplementary Estimates, including coordinating departmental inputs and preparing working papers.
- Assist in monitoring the department's cash position, including reconciliation of data, identifying issues, and escalating risks to managers.
- Validate financial information received from FBPs, finance operations and policy teams to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Support production of management and parliamentary reporting, contributing analysis and commentary where required.
- Maintain process documentation, templates and trackers for Estimates and cash processes.
- Provide administrative and analytical support at key points in the departmental financial cycle (e.g., month-end, Estimates deadlines).
- Build effective working relationships across the finance community to improve data quality and strengthen budgetary control.
- Undertake ad-hoc analysis, scenario modelling or checks to support senior colleagues in preparing submissions or briefings.
Person specification
Key Skills/Experience and Essential Criteria:
- Qualifications: Fully qualified accountant (CCAB or CIMA) or actively working towards an accountancy qualification with significant relevant experience.
- Strong numerical and analytical skills, with the ability to work with financial data accurately.
- Good written and verbal communication skills, able to present information clearly to finance and non-finance audiences.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines.
- Ability to build positive working relationships across teams and maintain good stakeholder engagement.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving and willingness to learn about Estimates, cash management and parliamentary processes.
Desirable
- Understanding of Consolidated Budgeting Guidance or parliamentary control totals.
- Experience using financial systems (e.g., ERP, forecasting tools) or working with large datasets.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £37,666, Department for Business and Trade contributes £10,911 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
- 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%