Job Description

Details

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Reference number

402220
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Salary

40,661 - 50,472
(Market Pay Supplement of 5000 for permanent staff) (Per annum, Pro rata)
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP
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Job grade

Senior Executive Officer###

Contract type

Permanent###

Business area

COO - Finance, Performance, Risk and Assurance###

Type of role

Finance

Other###

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time###

Number of jobs available

1

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and London (Canary Wharf)

About the job

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Job summary

To deliver professional and expert systems and support services to the Oracle Fusion; Money and People Service (MaPS) systems. Thereby enabling optimal decision making and financial management across the agency.


We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.


UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

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Job description

Key responsibilities include:

Systems:

Support the teams' priorities and resourcing to ensure the effective delivery of the financial and people systems, data and technology. Create training courses to upskill users on processes and systems. Develop and update systems guidance. Support, maintain and improve the central Enterprise Resource Planning Systems, including Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Payroll, EPM and FDIP.

Data Management:

Use insights from stakeholder engagement and data to effectively manage and improve the performance of systems.

Intelligent Customer Function:

Provide expert advice regarding systems and technology to stakeholders within the organisation and across government. Enable and manage change that allows more flexibility, responsiveness and improved service delivery and user experience.

Role specific:

Support, maintain, configure, and improve our Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Lead Oracle Cloud maintenance related to activities. Lead Oracle Cloud user, role, data and infrastructure security related activities. Create and maintain documentation to ensure auditable, user security processes, procedures, and approval frameworks. The specific content of the role will be flexible, and the individual will be expected to work across/within different modules and across different layers of the solution and architecture as needed.

Main activities the post holder will carry out:

Activity

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To provide systems application support to ensure rapid solutions are provided to end user problems.



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Provide advice on technical aspects of requirements into system development and integration, including requests for changes and deviations from specifications.



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Understand and apply relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices.



10



Lead in the assurance of technical documentation and solutions in alignment with requirements and UKHSA strategic objectives.



10



Lead in the development of support and training documentation and courses to ensure all users have up to date guidance and support.



15



Produce detailed analysis of requirements, to arrive at credible and coherent solutions.



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Liaise with other finance and people teams, communicating technical concepts and complex issues clearly and accurately, and adapting communication style to suit the recipient.



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To assist in ensuring the security of the finance and people systems and associated data.



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Person specification

Essential Criteria:

Experience in Financial and/or Supply Chain and/or Human Resources and/or managing cloud infrastructure expertise. Significant experience of delivering systems support within an ITIL aligned organisation. Significant experience in managing Oracle Cloud or similar cloud environments. Demonstrable knowledge of managing change through the product delivery life cycle Demonstrable ability to engage and communicate technical concepts and complex issues with key stakeholders at an operational and strategic level. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. One or more of the following: Cyber Security ,Computing or IT qualification One or more of the following: SCM, HCM, EPM, ERP or OCI Foundation associate

Desirable role criteria:

Digital, Data & Technology: ITIL Service Management Agile Project Management Lean Six Sigma Experience managing Oracle Cloud user security. User Security Audit experience AI for OCI and Cloud applications

Desirable criteria will only be assessed in the event of a strong field of candidates and as a second stage after all essential criteria have been assessed.

Benefits

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Alongside your salary of 40,661, UK Health Security Agency contributes 11,779 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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Selection process details

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV

Stage 1: Application & Sift

Success profiles

This vacancy is using success profiles and will assess your behaviours, experience, strengths and ability. You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the above listed 8 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

Application form ('Employer/ Activity history' section on the application)

750

word Statement of Suitability.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.


The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.

Longlisting:

In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

Meets all essential criteria Meets some essential criteria Meets no essential criteria

Meets all essential criteria and meets some essential criteria will be taken through to shortlisting.

Shortlisting

: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on:

Experience in Financial and/or Supply Chain and/or Human Resources and/or managing cloud infrastructure expertise.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment


Please do not exceed 750 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.


Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview (success profiles)

You will be invited to face to face interview. Remote interviews will be considered if you live more than 3 hours away from the Canary Wharf office.


Behaviours, Strengths and Ability will be tested at interview.


The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

Making Effective Decisions Communicating and Influencing Delivering at Pace Developing Self and Others Managing a Quality Service

Ability:

There will be a 5-10 minute presentation on-

"Which approach is better when implementing RBAC in SaaS applications. Assigning roles to users or the position the user is assigned to?"


Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQ's. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQ's (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London) Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.


For meaningful National Security Vetting checks to be carried out individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years as the role requires Security Check (SC) clearance. UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder / Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.

Reasonable Adjustments

The Civil Service is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone. To help you during the recruitment process, we will consider any reasonable adjustments that could help you. An adjustment is a change to the recruitment process or an adjustment at work. This is separate to the Disability Confident Scheme. If you need an adjustment to be made at any point during the recruitment process you should contact the recruitment team in confidence as soon as possible to discuss your needs.


You can find out more information about reasonable adjustments across the Civil Service here: https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/reasonable-adjustments/

International Police check

If you have spent more than 6 months abroad over the last 3 years you may need an International Police Check. This would not necessarily have to be in a single block, and it could be time accrued over that period.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Your application may be rejected and/or you may be subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence (AI), as your own.

Internal Fraud check

If successful for this role as one aspect of pre-employment screening, applicant's personal details - name, national insurance number and date of birth - will be checked against the Cabinet Office Internal Fraud Hub and anyone included on the database will be refused employment unless they can show exceptional circumstances. Currently this is only for External candidates to the Civil Service.

Careers website

Please visit our careers site for more information https://gov.uk/ukhsa/careers



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.###

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .



See our vetting charter .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.###

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:


UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements
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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.



We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.###

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

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Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.###

Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

Name : Rosie O'Grady Email : rosie.ogrady@ukhsa.gov.uk
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Recruitment team

Email : recruitment@ukhsa.gov.uk ###

Further information

The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact UKHSA Public Accountability Unit via email: Complaints@ukhsa.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk