Finance Systems Analyst

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to join a dynamic Finance Systems team, shaping the future of finance, analytical and planning systems for the CPS.

As a Finance Systems Analyst, you will work across a portfolio of finance systems such as Oracle, Business Intelligence/PowerBI as well as analytical and planning systems such as Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).

You will work closely with both external and internal stakeholders across finance and other functions within CPS, to understand their ways of working and processes, and the context in which they need Finance Systems applications and products to operate for them.

You will use your Business Analysis skills and tools to elicit, generate and document business requirements, with a focus on developing and improving systems and processes.

You will provide a bridge between the development teams and stakeholders throughout the full delivery lifecycle, ensuring they focus on what is most important.

This is an exciting time to join the Finance Systems team, and you will help shape the future direction by embedding further automation, integration of systems and data as well as promoting self-service across the CPS.

The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you’re applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. There’s no guarantee that we will grant this approval.

You must be aged 16 or over at the point of starting in this role. The expected start date is approximately 8–12 weeks after the application closing date. You are expected to commence employment as soon as possible following the expiry of your notice period. Requests for significantly later start dates may not be accommodated.

As part of this role, you are expected to undertake direct line management responsibilities.

You must complete and pass your Civil Service tests by 23:55 on Monday 2nd November to be able to complete an application for this role.

Job description

Your roles and responsibilities:

• work closely with both external and internal stakeholders across finance and other functions within CPS, to understand their ways of working and processes, and the context in which they need Finance Systems applications and products to operate for them.
• Create process maps, requirements documentation, wireframes and maintain a backlog
• create user stories that remove ambiguity and create common understanding of what needs to be built by development teams
• provide a bridge between the development teams and stakeholders throughout the full delivery lifecycle, ensuring they focus on what is most important
• support Senior Leaders and Governance Boards, enabling them to decide on the relative value, and therefore priority of projects to be delivered.

A copy of the full job description is attached.

Person specification

To be eligible to apply, you need to:

• demonstrate a track record of proven Business Analysis skills as well as Project Management and Delivery skills.
• show abilities in stakeholder engagement as well the demonstrating how you develop and maintain effective relationships across senior and working level stakeholders.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £45,240, Crown Prosecution Service contributes £13,106 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

Join the Crown Prosecution Service and find your purpose.

The Crown Prosecution Service is passionate about ensuring that we're a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We're a committed equal opportunities employer, creating a culture where you can bring your whole self to work, and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our staff networks covering disability, faith and belief, LGBTQI+, race, social mobility alongside our mental health first aiders programme and wellbeing sessions.

The Crown Prosecution Service commits to offer its employees the following experience.

• You can do impactful, purposeful work that’s making a difference to your local communities.
• You are able to learn and grow, with access to the right opportunities and resources.
• We care about your wellbeing.
• We want you to feel valued, trusted and included.

We also offer the following range of benefits:

• Civil Service contributory pension of up to 28.9%
• 25 days’ leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years
• £350 each year to spend on personal development
• lawyer training programme for all new prosecutors
• an extra privilege day to mark the King's birthday
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• flexible working including flexitime, and a family friendly approach to work
• Cycle2Work scheme, employee savings.

Diversity at the Crown Prosecution Service is about inclusion, embracing differences and ensuring our workforce truly reflects the communities we serve. We want you to feel that you belong and can thrive, whatever your background, identity or culture. As a Disability Confident employer, we're happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments and improve your recruitment experience. If you'd like any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process, let us know within your application or contact [email removed].

We want to ensure our employees can thrive at work and home and offer a range of support to achieve a balance. This includes flexibility of working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a flexible approach to deployment. We offer a hybrid working policy. You must spend at least 40% of your contracted hours over a four-week period at court, in an office or another official workplace depending on business need and the kind of work you're doing.

The Crown Prosecution Service also has a range of development programmes to support all aspiring, new and experienced managers with developing the skills, behaviours and knowledge to build their confidence and capability. Our Manager Induction Programme is mandatory for all newly appointed managers. This is a fantastic opportunity to support all our new Crown Prosecution Service managers with the tools required to perform effectively in their roles.

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

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