Treasury Graduate Scheme – Records and Information Manager Manchester

Overview

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to develop a career in risk, counter fraud and assurance? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

HM Treasury’s Group Finance team, within the Corporate Centre Group provides sound financial management advice and information for internal use, and accurate information for Parliamentary control and public accountability purposes. We also lead on the department’s response to counter fraud, risk and assurance.

If you are an expert in risk, counter fraud or assurance join HM Treasury to shape our approach to operational risk management. This includes regularly reporting to senior leaders and boards on strategic risk planning, assurance and controls. The role includes line management responsibilities for 1-2 staff including our functional counter fraud lead.

What you will bring to the team:

Effective risk management is invaluable to HM Treasury, ensuring that the department has the reporting and insight it needs to handle risks effectively against corporate objectives. We are looking for someone who is highly motivated to inspire change and deliver high quality products and processes.

You need to be comfortable at working with stakeholders at all levels as well as external organisations such as the National Audit Office and Government Internal Audit Agency. You will have strong communications skills, both written and verbal. Additional responsibilities will include:

• Lead the operational risk management cycle, encouraging the team to deliver high-quality risk reporting on a quarterly basis to drive strategic discussions and decisions.
• Proactively engage with local risk owners in developing and maintaining risk registers, ensuring that key risks are escalated in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with our (part-time) Range E who leads on risk and assurance for Arms’ Length Bodies so that we maintain a joined-up approach and have strategic oversight of operational risks.
• Identify best practice and use that knowledge to support continuous improvement and further develop organisational counter fraud and risk maturity. Ensure this is embedded in our governance mechanisms, and that our frameworks and guidance are fit for purpose.
• Provide oversight of our counter fraud function, engaging with policy and corporate colleagues and the Public Sector Fraud Authority to ensure that fraud risks are assessed and mitigated appropriately.
• Drive improvements to assurance, ensuring that an effective control framework is in place and audit actions and recommendations are implemented. Liaise with key partners such as the Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) and National Audit Office.
• Build good relationships with the government’s Risk Centre of Excellence and represent HM Treasury at relevant cross-government networks and initiatives, including working groups.
• Effectively line manage 1-2 staff, role-modelling HMT values and supporting the team in building professional knowledge. You may be required to matrix-manage depending on current team workstreams and priorities.

The responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be comprehensive. The job holder should accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions.
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)