Account Manager, MP Services

Job summary

IPSA has a clear vision; to regulate through an exemplary, seamless service. MP Services is at the heart of IPSA, offering vital support to MPs and their staff to ensure they can access the funding they need to do their parliamentary and constituency work. The MP Services team provides principles-based support on a wide range of services from budget management to property to ensure MPs comply with IPSA’s regulatory principles.

The Account Manager regulates through service, providing support and guidance to a cohort of MPs and their staff on budget management, funding decisions, property and running an effective office. The role simplifies complexity and enables MPs and their staff to make confident, principles-based decisions, challenging constructively and escalating concerns appropriately.

As part of a dynamic team of up to 20 Account Managers, the role works collaboratively through a matrix structure with IPSA’s Payroll Services, Service Quality, Finance Business Partnering and Standards teams to ensure joined-up support and to identify trends and risks.

The role holder will live IPSA’s values, lead by example and collaborate with, support and challenge others to ensure IPSA remains a great place to work and MP and MP Staff satisfaction is high.

Job description

• Providing exemplary, seamless principles-based support to MPs and their staff, ensuring a joined up, consistently high-quality service aligned with IPSA’s values, educating MPs and their staff on IPSA’s systems and processes to support trust in democracy and assure the public.

• Managing day-to-day requests within challenging SLAs, ensuring MPs have access to the right support, services and information when they need it.

• Providing expert support to MPs and their staff on accessing funding, budget management, and property rental registration, enabling them to make sound, principles-based decisions.

• Contributing to continuous improvements, helping to shape and test new services and processes and embracing changes that impact MPs and their staff to minimise disruption.

• Building trusting, effective relationships with a cohort of MPs and their staff, understanding and anticipating their needs, spending patterns and challenges to provide timely, tailored high-quality support.

• Acting as the first line of defence by identifying and addressing risks early, constructively and sensitively challenging decisions that may fall outside IPSA’s principles, and escalating concerns, where appropriate.

• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to provide joined-up, efficient customer service.

• Reflecting IPSA’s core values of Staying Connected, Seeing the Bigger Picture, Being Open, Doing the Right Thing and Making a Difference through all that you do.

IPSA is a learning organisation. We constantly review our work against our strategic objectives, actively seek views from our stakeholders and assess the environment in which we operate so that we can continuously improve. Therefore, the list of key responsibilities may adapt and change over time within the spirit and nature of organisational change and the development of the role.

Person specification

You’ll thrive in a customer-focused, regulatory environment and be passionate about supporting MPs, their staff and trust in democracy through seamless service. You’ll be confident helping our customers navigate a principles-based approach to funding decisions, simplifying the complex and using data and insight to inform your conversations.

You’ll be curious and proactive, knowing when to challenge, when to guide and when to escalate. You’ll be comfortable working independently while staying connected to others, including our customers, playing your part in IPSA’s success. You will communicate confidently and focus IPSA and our customers on doing the right thing, not the easy thing.

You’ll be flexible in meeting the needs of our customers and colleagues, owning your work and contributing to agreed projects, developing your skills in a supportive, vibrant, values-led culture and helping shape how we support Parliament now and in the future. You’ll help safeguard public money thorough robust governance and reflect IPSA’s values in everything you do.

The experience and technical level required for the role, along with personal qualities, skills, attributes, and qualifications (where relevant) are listed below.

Essential

• Proven experience in complex customer-facing environments, focusing on building trusting relationships and regulating through seamless service.

• Strong interpersonal skills to engage confidently and constructively with MPs and their staff, managing complexity and difficult conversations with sensitivity and compassion.

• Excellent coaching and influencing skills to ensure MPs and their staff make principles-based decisions.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with good financial literacy and attention to detail, using data and insight to improve performance and identify trends.

• A sound moral compass and a commitment to doing the right thing rather than the easy thing.

• A collaborative approach, contributing to a matrix structure and supporting each other to get the best outcomes for all.

• A commitment to IPSA’s values core values of Staying Connected, Seeing the Bigger Picture, Being Open, Doing the Right Thing and Making a Difference through all that you do.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £34,110, Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority contributes £9,881 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).

• A competitive salary which is regularly benchmarked against industry.
• Hybrid and flexible working, with occasional travel to our London office for team meetings.
• Generous contributions to a Civil Service pension.
• Twenty-five days holiday entitlement (plus bank holidays), increasing by one day each year up to 30 days.
• Option to purchase additional holiday days each year.
• Access to learning and development tailored to your role with coaching opportunities.
• Working in a high-performing organisation which supports democracy with a great team ethic.
• A culture encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Time in your work to time to participate in our inclusive workplace networks.
• Mental Health First Aid network and access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Enhanced family leave provisions.
• Workplace awards programme for living IPSA’s values and innovative ideas.
• Season ticket/rent deposit loans.
• Cycle-to-work scheme.
• Volunteering days and "you" time.

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