Total 12 customer service job vacancies in Finance / Banking / Insurance category in The United States of America

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a finance team that supports the government’s national full fibre rollout ambitions, with BDUK intervening in the least commercially viable areas of the country.

The Financial Team works closely with the BDUK delivery teams as well as the wider DCMS Finance and Commercial teams to ensure that all financial transactions are captured on a timely basis, enabling accurate operational reporting and forecasting as well as ensuring that the department meets its prompt payment targets.

The Finance Officer will play a key part in ensuring that finance knowledge and capability is built up across BDUK. The post holder will be given the opportunity to progress their financial career, gaining a unique range of career development skills whilst supporting the delivery of one of government’s most high profile programmes.

Grants management

• Supporting the grant administration process, including processing grant claims and returns, repayments and reclaiming any overpayments on a timely basis.
• Maintenance of the grant allocations process, ensuring all grants follow a robust audit trail and are paid on time.
• Ensuring that all grants are input on Cabinet Office Government Grant Information System (GGIS) and other databases as required.
• Providing advice and training for non-financial stakeholders on grant administration to prevent delays and errors.

Robust Financial Management

• Reconciliation of financial data across various sources, correcting errors where necessary and working closely with non finance colleagues to prevent further errors.
• Supporting the facilitation of month end financial reporting, preparing and processing journals where required.
• Support the Financial Transactions Team on Procurement Administration Support to BDUK Commercial in respect of new Contracts and Single Action Tenders.
• Ensuring accurate and timely cost capture by raising Purchase Orders in order to meet Departmental Prompt Payment timescales.
• Primary responsibility for all queries and communications with central finance and commercial for requisitioning and receipting.
• Supporting with the production of monthly cash flow forecasts to DCMS finance.
• Providing financial advice and training, championing best practice to build up finance knowledge and capability across BDUK.

Other Duties

The post holder will be required to work in a flexible way and undertake any other duties reasonably requested by line management which are commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility of this post. This will include undertaking ad hoc work on projects and activities that support the wider work of the delivery programmes, such as providing a secretariat function.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a finance team that supports the government’s national full fibre rollout ambitions, with BDUK intervening in the least commercially viable areas of the country.

The Financial Team works closely with the BDUK delivery teams as well as the wider DCMS Finance and Commercial teams to ensure that all financial transactions are captured on a timely basis, enabling accurate operational reporting and forecasting as well as ensuring that the department meets its prompt payment targets.

The Finance Officer will play a key part in ensuring that finance knowledge and capability is built up across BDUK. The post holder will be given the opportunity to progress their financial career, gaining a unique range of career development skills whilst supporting the delivery of one of government’s most high profile programmes.

Grants management

• Supporting the grant administration process, including processing grant claims and returns, repayments and reclaiming any overpayments on a timely basis.
• Maintenance of the grant allocations process, ensuring all grants follow a robust audit trail and are paid on time.
• Ensuring that all grants are input on Cabinet Office Government Grant Information System (GGIS) and other databases as required.
• Providing advice and training for non-financial stakeholders on grant administration to prevent delays and errors.

Robust Financial Management

• Reconciliation of financial data across various sources, correcting errors where necessary and working closely with non finance colleagues to prevent further errors.
• Supporting the facilitation of month end financial reporting, preparing and processing journals where required.
• Support the Financial Transactions Team on Procurement Administration Support to BDUK Commercial in respect of new Contracts and Single Action Tenders.
• Ensuring accurate and timely cost capture by raising Purchase Orders in order to meet Departmental Prompt Payment timescales.
• Primary responsibility for all queries and communications with central finance and commercial for requisitioning and receipting.
• Supporting with the production of monthly cash flow forecasts to DCMS finance.
• Providing financial advice and training, championing best practice to build up finance knowledge and capability across BDUK.

Other Duties

The post holder will be required to work in a flexible way and undertake any other duties reasonably requested by line management which are commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility of this post. This will include undertaking ad hoc work on projects and activities that support the wider work of the delivery programmes, such as providing a secretariat function.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a finance team that supports the government’s national full fibre rollout ambitions, with BDUK intervening in the least commercially viable areas of the country.

The Financial Team works closely with the BDUK delivery teams as well as the wider DCMS Finance and Commercial teams to ensure that all financial transactions are captured on a timely basis, enabling accurate operational reporting and forecasting as well as ensuring that the department meets its prompt payment targets.

The Finance Officer will play a key part in ensuring that finance knowledge and capability is built up across BDUK. The post holder will be given the opportunity to progress their financial career, gaining a unique range of career development skills whilst supporting the delivery of one of government’s most high profile programmes.

Grants management

• Supporting the grant administration process, including processing grant claims and returns, repayments and reclaiming any overpayments on a timely basis.
• Maintenance of the grant allocations process, ensuring all grants follow a robust audit trail and are paid on time.
• Ensuring that all grants are input on Cabinet Office Government Grant Information System (GGIS) and other databases as required.
• Providing advice and training for non-financial stakeholders on grant administration to prevent delays and errors.

Robust Financial Management

• Reconciliation of financial data across various sources, correcting errors where necessary and working closely with non finance colleagues to prevent further errors.
• Supporting the facilitation of month end financial reporting, preparing and processing journals where required.
• Support the Financial Transactions Team on Procurement Administration Support to BDUK Commercial in respect of new Contracts and Single Action Tenders.
• Ensuring accurate and timely cost capture by raising Purchase Orders in order to meet Departmental Prompt Payment timescales.
• Primary responsibility for all queries and communications with central finance and commercial for requisitioning and receipting.
• Supporting with the production of monthly cash flow forecasts to DCMS finance.
• Providing financial advice and training, championing best practice to build up finance knowledge and capability across BDUK.

Other Duties

The post holder will be required to work in a flexible way and undertake any other duties reasonably requested by line management which are commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility of this post. This will include undertaking ad hoc work on projects and activities that support the wider work of the delivery programmes, such as providing a secretariat function.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a finance team that supports the government’s national full fibre rollout ambitions, with BDUK intervening in the least commercially viable areas of the country.

The Financial Team works closely with the BDUK delivery teams as well as the wider DCMS Finance and Commercial teams to ensure that all financial transactions are captured on a timely basis, enabling accurate operational reporting and forecasting as well as ensuring that the department meets its prompt payment targets.

The Finance Officer will play a key part in ensuring that finance knowledge and capability is built up across BDUK. The post holder will be given the opportunity to progress their financial career, gaining a unique range of career development skills whilst supporting the delivery of one of government’s most high profile programmes.

Grants management

• Supporting the grant administration process, including processing grant claims and returns, repayments and reclaiming any overpayments on a timely basis.
• Maintenance of the grant allocations process, ensuring all grants follow a robust audit trail and are paid on time.
• Ensuring that all grants are input on Cabinet Office Government Grant Information System (GGIS) and other databases as required.
• Providing advice and training for non-financial stakeholders on grant administration to prevent delays and errors.

Robust Financial Management

• Reconciliation of financial data across various sources, correcting errors where necessary and working closely with non finance colleagues to prevent further errors.
• Supporting the facilitation of month end financial reporting, preparing and processing journals where required.
• Support the Financial Transactions Team on Procurement Administration Support to BDUK Commercial in respect of new Contracts and Single Action Tenders.
• Ensuring accurate and timely cost capture by raising Purchase Orders in order to meet Departmental Prompt Payment timescales.
• Primary responsibility for all queries and communications with central finance and commercial for requisitioning and receipting.
• Supporting with the production of monthly cash flow forecasts to DCMS finance.
• Providing financial advice and training, championing best practice to build up finance knowledge and capability across BDUK.

Other Duties

The post holder will be required to work in a flexible way and undertake any other duties reasonably requested by line management which are commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility of this post. This will include undertaking ad hoc work on projects and activities that support the wider work of the delivery programmes, such as providing a secretariat function.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a finance team that supports the government’s national full fibre rollout ambitions, with BDUK intervening in the least commercially viable areas of the country.

The Financial Team works closely with the BDUK delivery teams as well as the wider DCMS Finance and Commercial teams to ensure that all financial transactions are captured on a timely basis, enabling accurate operational reporting and forecasting as well as ensuring that the department meets its prompt payment targets.

The Finance Officer will play a key part in ensuring that finance knowledge and capability is built up across BDUK. The post holder will be given the opportunity to progress their financial career, gaining a unique range of career development skills whilst supporting the delivery of one of government’s most high profile programmes.

Grants management

• Supporting the grant administration process, including processing grant claims and returns, repayments and reclaiming any overpayments on a timely basis.
• Maintenance of the grant allocations process, ensuring all grants follow a robust audit trail and are paid on time.
• Ensuring that all grants are input on Cabinet Office Government Grant Information System (GGIS) and other databases as required.
• Providing advice and training for non-financial stakeholders on grant administration to prevent delays and errors.

Robust Financial Management

• Reconciliation of financial data across various sources, correcting errors where necessary and working closely with non finance colleagues to prevent further errors.
• Supporting the facilitation of month end financial reporting, preparing and processing journals where required.
• Support the Financial Transactions Team on Procurement Administration Support to BDUK Commercial in respect of new Contracts and Single Action Tenders.
• Ensuring accurate and timely cost capture by raising Purchase Orders in order to meet Departmental Prompt Payment timescales.
• Primary responsibility for all queries and communications with central finance and commercial for requisitioning and receipting.
• Supporting with the production of monthly cash flow forecasts to DCMS finance.
• Providing financial advice and training, championing best practice to build up finance knowledge and capability across BDUK.

Other Duties

The post holder will be required to work in a flexible way and undertake any other duties reasonably requested by line management which are commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility of this post. This will include undertaking ad hoc work on projects and activities that support the wider work of the delivery programmes, such as providing a secretariat function.

The National Security Secretariat (NSS) in the Cabinet Office keeps the UK safe, secure and prosperous by bringing together the UK’s national security community, providing high-quality support to the Prime Minister and the National Security Council and maintaining centre-to-centre relationships internationally. Working within the wider Cabinet Secretariat and led by the Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser (NSA), we assist the Prime Minister and the Cabinet in the development, coordination and implementation of its highest priority objectives.

Our overarching strategy is set out in the here, which describes the Government’s vision for the UK’s role in the world over the next decade, and the action we will take to 2025.

The NSS value professional and personal development for all of our staff and recognise that a continued focus on learning and development (L&D) will enable us to grow our capability. We are also committed to fostering a culture which welcomes new ideas and fresh perspectives, and supporting diversity and inclusion, including through flexible patterns and ways of working.

We can offer stretching and engaging work to enhance career development and gain highly transferable skills. We expect our staff to rise to new challenges, demonstrating the agility required to respond to urgent and changing events, and to work collaboratively to achieve results both within NSS and across government. A role with the NSS is a real opportunity to impact the lives of our citizens and make a difference every day.

The Investment Security Unit (ISU) sits within NSS and leads the government's national security investment screening regime, including through advising the Deputy Prime Minister on the use of the National Security and Investment (NSI) Act. This includes detailed assessments of national security risks arising from investments into the UK economy, as well as wider policy and strategic development and communications. The ISU works closely with departments across the government on both specific NSI cases and wider issues, sitting at the heart of a growing economic security community.

The ISU is an exciting and diverse place to work, with teams delivering a range of operational, policy, analytical and international activity. We are a welcoming and inclusive team, actively seek a broad range of skills and perspectives to enable working across the breadth of national security, economic and international policy. We strongly encourage applications from individuals from under-represented groups.

The Policy Team owns the policy and strategy for the NSI Act, ensuring the legislation and its use remains effective and proportionate and leading strategic stakeholder communication, including with businesses and Parliament.

The Risk Assessment team leads investigations of NSI cases to advise the Deputy Prime Minister, using internal expertise and close relationships with other departments and legal advisers to identify national security risks and mitigations. As part of the investigations, the team engages with companies and their legal advisers whose transactions have been called in. This requires balancing the need to be open and transparent; ensuring businesses have a positive experience of the National Security and Investment process whilst balancing commercial sensitives and national security interests.

The role will span both the Policy and Assessment teams, driving greater joint working.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities for the post will include:

• For the Policy Team, you will lead public engagement on the NSI Act, including developing strategic stakeholder engagement plans and speaking to a large number of interested stakeholders. You will support senior officials and ministers to do the same. You will consider the key messages to land, using knowledge of the audience, ministers’ priorities, and the NSI Act itself. As part of this, you will lead on drafting briefings for Ministers and senior civil servants for public engagements. You will also work on the strategic side of policy communications and public messaging.
• For the Risk Assessment Team, you will lead engagement with businesses, becoming a subject expert and working to improve consistency in how we approach these engagements. This requires supporting the Risk Assessment case lead to coordinate and judge what can be communicated to external parties whilst balancing the need to be transparent without prejudicing the final outcome of a case. As part of this, you will work with case leads to coordinate engagement with the ISU and other government departments and external parties. You will act as a centre of expertise on domestic handling on major NSI cases, using your expertise to advise case leads on drafting letters, communicating with affected parties, and leading engagement with Parliament on these cases.
• In this work, you will be producing high-quality written and oral advice to support senior officials when engaging with stakeholders. You will manage the implementation of a comprehensive calendar of events ensuring the seamless delivery of engagements, considering the wider strategic objectives of this programme of engagement. You will also conduct research to gather business insight and intelligence to better understand what their priorities and interests are.
• There will be opportunities to support wider casework, depending on case volumes, and other priority work across ISU. This could include leading on NSI investigations into acquisitions and crafting remedies imposing conditions on these acquisitions.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a finance team that supports the government’s national full fibre rollout ambitions, with BDUK intervening in the least commercially viable areas of the country.

The Financial Team works closely with the BDUK delivery teams as well as the wider DCMS Finance and Commercial teams to ensure that all financial transactions are captured on a timely basis, enabling accurate operational reporting and forecasting as well as ensuring that the department meets its prompt payment targets.

The Finance Officer will play a key part in ensuring that finance knowledge and capability is built up across BDUK. The post holder will be given the opportunity to progress their financial career, gaining a unique range of career development skills whilst supporting the delivery of one of government’s most high profile programmes.

Grants management

• Supporting the grant administration process, including processing grant claims and returns, repayments and reclaiming any overpayments on a timely basis.
• Maintenance of the grant allocations process, ensuring all grants follow a robust audit trail and are paid on time.
• Ensuring that all grants are input on Cabinet Office Government Grant Information System (GGIS) and other databases as required.
• Providing advice and training for non-financial stakeholders on grant administration to prevent delays and errors.

Robust Financial Management

• Reconciliation of financial data across various sources, correcting errors where necessary and working closely with non finance colleagues to prevent further errors.
• Supporting the facilitation of month end financial reporting, preparing and processing journals where required.
• Support the Financial Transactions Team on Procurement Administration Support to BDUK Commercial in respect of new Contracts and Single Action Tenders.
• Ensuring accurate and timely cost capture by raising Purchase Orders in order to meet Departmental Prompt Payment timescales.
• Primary responsibility for all queries and communications with central finance and commercial for requisitioning and receipting.
• Supporting with the production of monthly cash flow forecasts to DCMS finance.
• Providing financial advice and training, championing best practice to build up finance knowledge and capability across BDUK.

Other Duties

The post holder will be required to work in a flexible way and undertake any other duties reasonably requested by line management which are commensurate with the grade and level of responsibility of this post. This will include undertaking ad hoc work on projects and activities that support the wider work of the delivery programmes, such as providing a secretariat function.

This role provides an exciting opportunity to co-lead this high-profile policy area with the potential to have a significant impact on investment in sustainability, helping to achieve the Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan and Net Zero.

The post holder will use their experience and relevant expertise to develop policy on impact investment, risk disclosures and sustainable finance, including co-leading the work developing and publishing the first UK Green Taxonomy in 2024.

The government has outlined an ambitious agenda across Climate Change and nature recovery. These ambitions are clearly articulated in the Climate Change and Environment Act, with legally binding targets clearly setting out the objectives we are striving towards.

It’s also an exciting time to join us as we take on the mission of delivering on the Green Finance Strategy March 2023 and the target to scale up private investment flows for nature to £1 billion per year by 2030. Here are a few of the things we are doing:

• Working to set up in Defra’s first domestic blended finance impact fund, run by private sector fund managers
• Launching a fleet of new projects and business models with our Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund
• Setting the rules for nature and carbon markets by designing the Nature Markets Framework
• Building capacity in local government, skills and jobs needed for the green economy to bloom
• Changing the sustainability disclosure rules to drive out greenwash so that businesses recognise, measure and act on their effect on climate change and environmental degradation

UK Green Taxonomy – Impact Investment and disclosure

The Green Taxonomy is a list of economic activities that can be considered sustainable. It is an important tool to channel finance into priority sectors and drive out greenwash. This role is parental leave cover and spans the period when we aim to publish the UK’s first iteration of the Taxonomy, as part of a wider ‘greening finance’ platform.

The post holder will also build Defra’s capability in developing policy to channel investment into nature’s recovery and ensure integrity in the impact investment markets.

The role will involve (not exclusively):

• Defra co-lead on the UK Green Taxonomy, working closely with the rest of team, colleagues across government and industry stakeholders to ensure it is accessible, science-based, and built for the UK
• Develop content for two Public Consultation documents on the Green Taxonomy, formal published response to the consultations, Ministerial meeting briefings, submissions etc
• Participate in cross-Government working groups and boards and ensuring Defra’s interests are understood, including finding resolution where there are policy clashes. Drive progress through a tight schedule of board agenda with clear focus on outcomes
• Policy leadership: identify and navigate key routes to developing simple and effective rules for how businesses communicate aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and ecosystems on land and water/marine, pollution and circular economy, all while using research and stakeholder feedback
• Stakeholder management: Manage dedicated Defra-funded stakeholder consultative body (budget, management, and outputs), and develop a network of other contacts in sustainable finance (government, regulators, businesses)
• Project leadership: Overseeing a clear project delivery plan for the above project and contributing to business planning processes, to pressing deadlines in policy uncertainty. Providing progress updates to senior colleagues and Ministers
• Supporting and developing your team, providing leadership both on the policy area and contribute to the division’s strongly supportive and collaborative culture
• Providing support to the wider division and being prepared to surge into critical areas to support overall delivery

You will share responsibility for delivering Defra’s work on the taxonomy with another Grade 7 team member, and you will have your own responsibilities alongside your taxonomy work. It will involve building strong relationships and working closely with colleagues across government, Defra group and external stakeholders. You will have line management responsibility for one member of staff to start, including supporting their overall career development.

The Green Finance Division is a small team that works in a matrix fashion. We flex our resources to support teams during busy periods. You should therefore be comfortable working across team priorities, knowing that you can also draw on colleagues when more resource is needed to support them to deliver.

About the Green Finance Division

We are a small but lively, friendly and supportive team, with a mandate to be ambitious and creative, think expansively and provide leadership on complex and highly cross-cutting issues. Our working model is highly collaborative, with all team members empowered and supported to build and lead multidisciplinary project teams to take forward priority projects. We are also supported by extensive networks of experts and thought leaders within the Defra family of organisations and externally.

You will be working in a Grade 6 team including four other staff, in a division of <30 people. We all work in an agile way whenever possible and there’s the opportunity to work on a range of projects as well as this one, to ‘act up’ and take on bigger responsibilities – and an expectation to pitch in when needed. The support we give each other is vital to our success.

As part of the Environment Strategy Directorate and the Green Finance Division, there is a learning and development budget available to you. We encourage you to develop your personal development plan and commit to ensuring you have time to take forward training opportunities. As a team we: organise site visits to our programmes, attend green finance conferences, encourage mentoring and coaching opportunities and have facilitated both informal and formal training courses to support both your policy and career development needs.

This role provides an exciting opportunity to co-lead this high-profile policy area with the potential to have a significant impact on investment in sustainability, helping to achieve the Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan and Net Zero.

The post holder will use their experience and relevant expertise to develop policy on impact investment, risk disclosures and sustainable finance, including co-leading the work developing and publishing the first UK Green Taxonomy in 2024.

The government has outlined an ambitious agenda across Climate Change and nature recovery. These ambitions are clearly articulated in the Climate Change and Environment Act, with legally binding targets clearly setting out the objectives we are striving towards.

It’s also an exciting time to join us as we take on the mission of delivering on the Green Finance Strategy March 2023 and the target to scale up private investment flows for nature to £1 billion per year by 2030. Here are a few of the things we are doing:

• Working to set up in Defra’s first domestic blended finance impact fund, run by private sector fund managers
• Launching a fleet of new projects and business models with our Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund
• Setting the rules for nature and carbon markets by designing the Nature Markets Framework
• Building capacity in local government, skills and jobs needed for the green economy to bloom
• Changing the sustainability disclosure rules to drive out greenwash so that businesses recognise, measure and act on their effect on climate change and environmental degradation

UK Green Taxonomy – Impact Investment and disclosure

The Green Taxonomy is a list of economic activities that can be considered sustainable. It is an important tool to channel finance into priority sectors and drive out greenwash. This role is parental leave cover and spans the period when we aim to publish the UK’s first iteration of the Taxonomy, as part of a wider ‘greening finance’ platform.

The post holder will also build Defra’s capability in developing policy to channel investment into nature’s recovery and ensure integrity in the impact investment markets.

The role will involve (not exclusively):

• Defra co-lead on the UK Green Taxonomy, working closely with the rest of team, colleagues across government and industry stakeholders to ensure it is accessible, science-based, and built for the UK
• Develop content for two Public Consultation documents on the Green Taxonomy, formal published response to the consultations, Ministerial meeting briefings, submissions etc
• Participate in cross-Government working groups and boards and ensuring Defra’s interests are understood, including finding resolution where there are policy clashes. Drive progress through a tight schedule of board agenda with clear focus on outcomes
• Policy leadership: identify and navigate key routes to developing simple and effective rules for how businesses communicate aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and ecosystems on land and water/marine, pollution and circular economy, all while using research and stakeholder feedback
• Stakeholder management: Manage dedicated Defra-funded stakeholder consultative body (budget, management, and outputs), and develop a network of other contacts in sustainable finance (government, regulators, businesses)
• Project leadership: Overseeing a clear project delivery plan for the above project and contributing to business planning processes, to pressing deadlines in policy uncertainty. Providing progress updates to senior colleagues and Ministers
• Supporting and developing your team, providing leadership both on the policy area and contribute to the division’s strongly supportive and collaborative culture
• Providing support to the wider division and being prepared to surge into critical areas to support overall delivery

You will share responsibility for delivering Defra’s work on the taxonomy with another Grade 7 team member, and you will have your own responsibilities alongside your taxonomy work. It will involve building strong relationships and working closely with colleagues across government, Defra group and external stakeholders. You will have line management responsibility for one member of staff to start, including supporting their overall career development.

The Green Finance Division is a small team that works in a matrix fashion. We flex our resources to support teams during busy periods. You should therefore be comfortable working across team priorities, knowing that you can also draw on colleagues when more resource is needed to support them to deliver.

About the Green Finance Division

We are a small but lively, friendly and supportive team, with a mandate to be ambitious and creative, think expansively and provide leadership on complex and highly cross-cutting issues. Our working model is highly collaborative, with all team members empowered and supported to build and lead multidisciplinary project teams to take forward priority projects. We are also supported by extensive networks of experts and thought leaders within the Defra family of organisations and externally.

You will be working in a Grade 6 team including four other staff, in a division of <30 people. We all work in an agile way whenever possible and there’s the opportunity to work on a range of projects as well as this one, to ‘act up’ and take on bigger responsibilities – and an expectation to pitch in when needed. The support we give each other is vital to our success.

As part of the Environment Strategy Directorate and the Green Finance Division, there is a learning and development budget available to you. We encourage you to develop your personal development plan and commit to ensuring you have time to take forward training opportunities. As a team we: organise site visits to our programmes, attend green finance conferences, encourage mentoring and coaching opportunities and have facilitated both informal and formal training courses to support both your policy and career development needs.

This role provides an exciting opportunity to co-lead this high-profile policy area with the potential to have a significant impact on investment in sustainability, helping to achieve the Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan and Net Zero.

The post holder will use their experience and relevant expertise to develop policy on impact investment, risk disclosures and sustainable finance, including co-leading the work developing and publishing the first UK Green Taxonomy in 2024.

The government has outlined an ambitious agenda across Climate Change and nature recovery. These ambitions are clearly articulated in the Climate Change and Environment Act, with legally binding targets clearly setting out the objectives we are striving towards.

It’s also an exciting time to join us as we take on the mission of delivering on the Green Finance Strategy March 2023 and the target to scale up private investment flows for nature to £1 billion per year by 2030. Here are a few of the things we are doing:

• Working to set up in Defra’s first domestic blended finance impact fund, run by private sector fund managers
• Launching a fleet of new projects and business models with our Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund
• Setting the rules for nature and carbon markets by designing the Nature Markets Framework
• Building capacity in local government, skills and jobs needed for the green economy to bloom
• Changing the sustainability disclosure rules to drive out greenwash so that businesses recognise, measure and act on their effect on climate change and environmental degradation

UK Green Taxonomy – Impact Investment and disclosure

The Green Taxonomy is a list of economic activities that can be considered sustainable. It is an important tool to channel finance into priority sectors and drive out greenwash. This role is parental leave cover and spans the period when we aim to publish the UK’s first iteration of the Taxonomy, as part of a wider ‘greening finance’ platform.

The post holder will also build Defra’s capability in developing policy to channel investment into nature’s recovery and ensure integrity in the impact investment markets.

The role will involve (not exclusively):

• Defra co-lead on the UK Green Taxonomy, working closely with the rest of team, colleagues across government and industry stakeholders to ensure it is accessible, science-based, and built for the UK
• Develop content for two Public Consultation documents on the Green Taxonomy, formal published response to the consultations, Ministerial meeting briefings, submissions etc
• Participate in cross-Government working groups and boards and ensuring Defra’s interests are understood, including finding resolution where there are policy clashes. Drive progress through a tight schedule of board agenda with clear focus on outcomes
• Policy leadership: identify and navigate key routes to developing simple and effective rules for how businesses communicate aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and ecosystems on land and water/marine, pollution and circular economy, all while using research and stakeholder feedback
• Stakeholder management: Manage dedicated Defra-funded stakeholder consultative body (budget, management, and outputs), and develop a network of other contacts in sustainable finance (government, regulators, businesses)
• Project leadership: Overseeing a clear project delivery plan for the above project and contributing to business planning processes, to pressing deadlines in policy uncertainty. Providing progress updates to senior colleagues and Ministers
• Supporting and developing your team, providing leadership both on the policy area and contribute to the division’s strongly supportive and collaborative culture
• Providing support to the wider division and being prepared to surge into critical areas to support overall delivery

You will share responsibility for delivering Defra’s work on the taxonomy with another Grade 7 team member, and you will have your own responsibilities alongside your taxonomy work. It will involve building strong relationships and working closely with colleagues across government, Defra group and external stakeholders. You will have line management responsibility for one member of staff to start, including supporting their overall career development.

The Green Finance Division is a small team that works in a matrix fashion. We flex our resources to support teams during busy periods. You should therefore be comfortable working across team priorities, knowing that you can also draw on colleagues when more resource is needed to support them to deliver.

About the Green Finance Division

We are a small but lively, friendly and supportive team, with a mandate to be ambitious and creative, think expansively and provide leadership on complex and highly cross-cutting issues. Our working model is highly collaborative, with all team members empowered and supported to build and lead multidisciplinary project teams to take forward priority projects. We are also supported by extensive networks of experts and thought leaders within the Defra family of organisations and externally.

You will be working in a Grade 6 team including four other staff, in a division of <30 people. We all work in an agile way whenever possible and there’s the opportunity to work on a range of projects as well as this one, to ‘act up’ and take on bigger responsibilities – and an expectation to pitch in when needed. The support we give each other is vital to our success.

As part of the Environment Strategy Directorate and the Green Finance Division, there is a learning and development budget available to you. We encourage you to develop your personal development plan and commit to ensuring you have time to take forward training opportunities. As a team we: organise site visits to our programmes, attend green finance conferences, encourage mentoring and coaching opportunities and have facilitated both informal and formal training courses to support both your policy and career development needs.

Are you looking for your next challenge or seeking to launch a career in the Civil Service?

Are you currently studying or looking to study an accountancy qualification? If so VCA will fund and support your studies.

We are looking for people who share our values of honesty, integrity, objectivity, impartiality, and professionalism and want to play an important role in the UK automotive sector.

• Do you have great attention to detail?
• Are you organised and achieve deadlines?

If so, this is a great opportunity for you to join the VCA!

You will have excellent verbal and written communication and the ability to prioritise work and meet deadlines.

Attention to detail and accuracy is key as well as being able to build strong relationships with external contacts.

You must be able to work as part of a team, possess strong communication and interpersonal skills and good organisational skills are essential.

The Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) is the UK Type Approval Authority and ensures that road vehicles meet the minimum safety and environmental standards as required by GB, UK, and UNECE regulations. The integrity, objectivity, impartiality, and professionalism of our staff is vital to delivering this service for the automotive sector.

Would you like the opportunity to work in the finance department for an innovative Government Agency?

If you can add value to our team by bringing your experience, together with enthusiasm and initiative, we would love to hear from you.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our Finance team as our Finance Administrator and contribute to the continuous improvement environment we are proudly developing.

As a Finance Administrator you will be a key member of the transaction team processing all expense claims received from members of staff via our expense software, ensuring that they meet agency guidance. Alongside this you will be managing all corporate credit cards using the online portal and ensuring all transactions are accounted for and entered on timely basis. Sending out all customer invoices via email and online portals and transferring sales data between finance systems and ensuring data accuracy.

Your main duties will include:

• Checking of expense claims to ensure the meet agency guidance
• Liaising with staff to help with queries relating to expenses
• Assisting with MyExpense administration
• Chasing corporate credit card transactions for entry
• Assisting with corporate card administration including setting up new users
• Transferring all sales invoice data into our SUN accounting software and reconciling the data
• Processing all credit note requests
• Sending all sales invoices to customers via email and various online portals
• Monitor the shared mailbox answering queries with attention to detail
• Assist with process improvements including implementation of a new expense system
• Reporting discrepancies, mistakes, or potential fraud to senior management
• Researching and resolving discrepancies in a timely fashion
• Various reporting and analysis requests from within VCA.

Additional Information

Whilst we accept applicants on a part time basis, the minimum hours per week will be 29.6 hours a week.

For further information, please see the attached Role Profile

This role provides an exciting opportunity to co-lead this high-profile policy area with the potential to have a significant impact on investment in sustainability, helping to achieve the Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan and Net Zero.

The post holder will use their experience and relevant expertise to develop policy on impact investment, risk disclosures and sustainable finance, including co-leading the work developing and publishing the first UK Green Taxonomy in 2024.

The government has outlined an ambitious agenda across Climate Change and nature recovery. These ambitions are clearly articulated in the Climate Change and Environment Act, with legally binding targets clearly setting out the objectives we are striving towards.

It’s also an exciting time to join us as we take on the mission of delivering on the Green Finance Strategy March 2023 and the target to scale up private investment flows for nature to £1 billion per year by 2030. Here are a few of the things we are doing:

• Working to set up in Defra’s first domestic blended finance impact fund, run by private sector fund managers
• Launching a fleet of new projects and business models with our Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund
• Setting the rules for nature and carbon markets by designing the Nature Markets Framework
• Building capacity in local government, skills and jobs needed for the green economy to bloom
• Changing the sustainability disclosure rules to drive out greenwash so that businesses recognise, measure and act on their effect on climate change and environmental degradation

UK Green Taxonomy – Impact Investment and disclosure

The Green Taxonomy is a list of economic activities that can be considered sustainable. It is an important tool to channel finance into priority sectors and drive out greenwash. This role is parental leave cover and spans the period when we aim to publish the UK’s first iteration of the Taxonomy, as part of a wider ‘greening finance’ platform.

The post holder will also build Defra’s capability in developing policy to channel investment into nature’s recovery and ensure integrity in the impact investment markets.

The role will involve (not exclusively):

• Defra co-lead on the UK Green Taxonomy, working closely with the rest of team, colleagues across government and industry stakeholders to ensure it is accessible, science-based, and built for the UK
• Develop content for two Public Consultation documents on the Green Taxonomy, formal published response to the consultations, Ministerial meeting briefings, submissions etc
• Participate in cross-Government working groups and boards and ensuring Defra’s interests are understood, including finding resolution where there are policy clashes. Drive progress through a tight schedule of board agenda with clear focus on outcomes
• Policy leadership: identify and navigate key routes to developing simple and effective rules for how businesses communicate aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and ecosystems on land and water/marine, pollution and circular economy, all while using research and stakeholder feedback
• Stakeholder management: Manage dedicated Defra-funded stakeholder consultative body (budget, management, and outputs), and develop a network of other contacts in sustainable finance (government, regulators, businesses)
• Project leadership: Overseeing a clear project delivery plan for the above project and contributing to business planning processes, to pressing deadlines in policy uncertainty. Providing progress updates to senior colleagues and Ministers
• Supporting and developing your team, providing leadership both on the policy area and contribute to the division’s strongly supportive and collaborative culture
• Providing support to the wider division and being prepared to surge into critical areas to support overall delivery

You will share responsibility for delivering Defra’s work on the taxonomy with another Grade 7 team member, and you will have your own responsibilities alongside your taxonomy work. It will involve building strong relationships and working closely with colleagues across government, Defra group and external stakeholders. You will have line management responsibility for one member of staff to start, including supporting their overall career development.

The Green Finance Division is a small team that works in a matrix fashion. We flex our resources to support teams during busy periods. You should therefore be comfortable working across team priorities, knowing that you can also draw on colleagues when more resource is needed to support them to deliver.

About the Green Finance Division

We are a small but lively, friendly and supportive team, with a mandate to be ambitious and creative, think expansively and provide leadership on complex and highly cross-cutting issues. Our working model is highly collaborative, with all team members empowered and supported to build and lead multidisciplinary project teams to take forward priority projects. We are also supported by extensive networks of experts and thought leaders within the Defra family of organisations and externally.

You will be working in a Grade 6 team including four other staff, in a division of <30 people. We all work in an agile way whenever possible and there’s the opportunity to work on a range of projects as well as this one, to ‘act up’ and take on bigger responsibilities – and an expectation to pitch in when needed. The support we give each other is vital to our success.

As part of the Environment Strategy Directorate and the Green Finance Division, there is a learning and development budget available to you. We encourage you to develop your personal development plan and commit to ensuring you have time to take forward training opportunities. As a team we: organise site visits to our programmes, attend green finance conferences, encourage mentoring and coaching opportunities and have facilitated both informal and formal training courses to support both your policy and career development needs.