Role Description

Rank\Scale PO5

Chief Finance Officer

Reports To

Main Responsibilities Budget Setting & Financial Planning • Lead the development and maintain the annual budget and Medium-Term Financial Plan (MTFP), ensuring accuracy and liaising with Chief Officer Group and the OPCC to ensure alignment with strategic priorities. • Oversee and set clear, logical revenue and capital budgets for the Force and OPCC, supporting statutory requirements such as precept setting and funding strategy. • Consolidate and report annual budgets to senior stakeholders (including Chief Officer Group, OPCC and Heads of Department). Budget Monitoring & Reporting • Manage monthly financial reporting and forecasting, explaining variances, risks, and opportunities. • Prepare executive dashboards and management information packs for senior leadership. • Identify and escalate financial risks and opportunities, recommending mitigation actions. Business Partnering & Value-Adding Support • Collaborate with department heads to model financial outcomes and advise on value-for-money decisions, acting as a key finance influencer in the preparation of organization-wide business cases. • Support resource allocation, project appraisal, and investment decisions. • Act as the single point of finance support for senior leaders, attending leadership team meetings. Capital & Project Control • Monitor project delivery to ensure budgets are met and value for money achieved. • Support the Head of Change in conducting post-completion audits and embedding lessons learned. Governance & Compliance • Ensure compliance with financial regulations, audit standards, and governance frameworks. • Support internal and external audit processes and statutory reporting requirements. Procurement • Provide strategic oversight of procurement activities, ensuring compliance and value for money. • Manage Procurement Business Partners, ensuring maintenance of accurate and complete contracts and grants registers. Team Management & Development • Lead and mentor Finance Business Partners and Procurement Business Partners, conducting regular one-to-ones and development reviews. • Foster a collaborative, people-centric culture within the finance team. • Contribute to financial training for officers and staff across the Constabulary. Continuous Improvement • Drive process improvements and efficiencies across finance operations. • Work with the Change Team to promote business process reengineering and commercial thinking to deliver cost savings and sustainability.

Lead and enhance the Constabulary’s financial planning and analysis capabilities, ensuring robust financial governance and supporting strategic, operational, and tactical decision-making. Act as the organisation’s Head of Financial Planning & Analysis driving financial sustainability and value for money across the policing estate, deputising for the Chief Finance Officer when required.

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Additional Information Vetting Level: The role must be vetted to a minimum of management vetting (MV). Mobility: The Force reserves the right to request you to carry out any other duties or move you to any other post appropriate to your grade, at any location within the county of Gloucestershire, as business requirements dictate. Working Pattern: Normal working hours will average 37 per week or will be pro rata Monday to Friday. This will be worked subject to the needs of the service and may involve shift, night, weekend and public holiday working. Standards of Professional Behaviour: All members of Police Staff / Police Officers must comply with these standards. Training and development: Undertake the required training and development to maintain working knowledge. Driving licence/Travel: There may be a requirement to travel to meetings at different locations around the county, some of which are not well served by public transport.

Supervisory Responsibility 3 Finance Business Partners 2 Procurement Business Partners

Essential: • CCAB-qualified accountant (CIPFA, ACCA, ACA, or CIMA). • Proven experience in senior finance leadership roles within complex organisations. • Expertise in financial planning, budgeting, and analysis, including building complex models and Board-level reporting. • Strong experience in business partnering and influencing senior stakeholders as well as preparation of financial elements of business cases. • Advanced Excel and financial systems proficiency. • Proven ability to manage and develop high-performing teams. Desirable: • Experience in public sector finance, ideally policing or similar governance structures. • Knowledge of IFRS/GAAP and public sector accounting standards. • Familiarity with procurement best practices and contract management.

Experience and Qualifications

Progression

Skill Category Skill Name Skill Level Skill Description For PDR

Intelligent, Creative and Informed Policing

We analyse critically Supervisory/Middle Manager

I help people be more effective by sharing the best available information and professional knowledge from diverse sources.<br /> I ask incisive questions to test assumptions and separate opinion from fact. <br /> I recognise when to take decisive action with incomplete information and plan for contingencies. <br /> I draw effective conclusions from diverse sources of information and evidence and apply these to deliver results. <br /> I assess options to make the best use of resources available, applying business and financial acumen to deliver best results.

Yes

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Inclusive, Enabling and Visionary Leadership

We are collaborative Supervisory/Middle Manager

I create a work environment that combines diverse styles, backgrounds and experiences to get better results.<br /> I build strong relationships across a broad range of stakeholders, including colleagues, partners and communities, and use these connections to accomplish goals. <br /> I work with partners to decide clear roles appropriate to each partner’s remit. <br /> I include others in my thinking and understand their priorities to make collaboration more effective. <br /> I help create joined-up solutions across organisational and geographical boundaries, partner organisations and the people we serve.<br /> I manage long-term partnerships sharing information and building trust to find the best solutions.

Yes

Resolute, Compassionat e and Committed

We are emotionally aware

Supervisory/Middle Manager

I help other people learn from their experiences and emotional responses to support and improve their performance.<br /> I monitor the wellbeing of others, taking responsibility to ensure appropriate support is provided to help colleagues stay at their best, without stigma or judgement.<br /> I provide others with confidence by staying focused and composed in stressful situations.<br /> I recognise when my colleagues are affected by the demands, stresses and traumas that can exist in policing, and support them however I can.<br /> I role model reflecting on my own emotions to promote an open environment to discuss concerns.<br /> I role model effective communication, taking into account the needs of others.<br /> I promote a culture that values understanding difference and encourages speaking up.

Yes

Intelligent, Creative and Informed Policing

We are innovative and open-minded

Supervisory/Middle Manager

I am flexible in my approach, changing my plans to make sure that I have the best impact.<br /> I look for good practice that is not always from policing and consider how I can apply it in my role.<br /> I provide space and encouragement to help others stand back and review their objectives and approach. This helps them to adopt fresh perspectives and identify improvements. <br /> I anticipate future challenges and changes by using my knowledge of trends within and outside policing.<br /> I generate creative ways to harness opportunities or meet challenges that arise from changing trends in policing.

Yes

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Inclusive, Enabling and Visionary Leadership

We deliver, support and inspire

Supervisory/Middle Manager

I support others to understand their aims and wider organisational goals so they can work more effectively.<br /> I help others understand organisational changes and help them adapt to and adopt these to deliver better results. <br /> I manage resources efficiently to create the most value and to deliver the right impact in my areas.<br /> I take time to understand and provide the support people need to work at their best. <br /> I show support that helps people feel safe and valued in raising concerns.<br /> I create opportunities to support the professional development of others through knowledge sharing, coaching, mentoring and feedback.

Yes

Resolute, Compassionat e and Committed

We take ownership Supervisory/Middle Manager

I delegate appropriately by giving clear direction that recognises people’s strengths and potential to achieve more.<br /> I monitor progress of my team and work to ensure deadlines are met and my team are clear on their objectives. <br /> I take ownership of individual and team performance, not leaving it to others to address problems. <br /> I take personal responsibility for seeing events through to a satisfactory conclusion and dealing with any problems both promptly and openly. <br /> I am proactive in supporting actions that tackle the bias or prejudice that may be experienced by some groups of people.

Yes

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