Job summary

Ready to lead a high-performing team and keep month-end and year-end close running like clockwork—accurate, timely, and audit-ready?

Do you enjoy digging into master data and reconciliations—spotting risks early, tightening controls, and driving improvements that make the numbers (and the process) better every month?

If so, we have an excellent opportunity for a Finance Operations Team Leader to join our team at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and we would welcome your application.

The role is based in the Finance Shared Services Division (FSSD) which provides transactional finance services to MHCLG, the Planning Inspectorate (PINS), the Valuation Tribunal Service (VTS) and the Regulator for Social Housing (RSH) with a customer base of 3500 users.

You will be working in a friendly team with a focus on development and process improvement. We are constantly seeking to improve how we work and welcome new ideas to shape this.

We are looking for a Finance Operations team leader who will have oversight of month and year end General Ledger and Budgeting process on SAP including: 1) Managing the enterprise structure including the creation and maintenance of cost centres, internal orders and general ledger codes 2) Managing vendor and customer data on SAP. 3) Monthly balance sheet reconciliations. 4) Debt management. 5) Bank account, suspense account and payroll reconciliations.

Job description

Being an effective task manager, delivering against strategic objectives.

Technical expert across all team responsibilities

Delivering and maintaining positive relationships with customers and stakeholders.

Ensuring services and expectations are managed against clearly defined deliverables and KPI’s.

Ensuring effective controls are in place to maintain accuracy of data and integrity to provide insight, including risk management and mitigation actions.

Collecting and analysing performance information.

Continually reviewing and adapting processes

Person specification

Finance qualifications at AAT Level or equivalent

Significant finance experience

Experience of leading and developing a team

Excellent communication skills

Positively responds to change and able to lead it

Ability to meet targets and make effective decisions

Highly organised with good attention to detail

A sound working knowledge of Microsoft office including Outlook, Teams, Excel and Power Point.