Outside IR35 contract jobs

Description

At UK Government Investments (UKGI), we provide the government with expertise in corporate finance and governance. What we do is unique. We are responsible for ensuring the effective governance of government owned companies (such as the British Business Bank), advising the government on corporate finance issues (including interventions into distressed corporate structures, such as Thomas Cook and British Steel) and all significant UK government asset sales (for example, the sale of the Green Investment Bank, the securitisation of the Student Loan book and the IPO of the Royal Mail). The work we do is significant in terms of social, economic and political impact.

Wholly owned by HM Treasury (HMT), UKGI has a team comprised of c.150 experts, drawn from the private sector (from banks, accountancy and legal firms) and from the Civil Service to ensure we provide government departments with high quality advice that is delivered and acted upon in the best way possible.

Working for UKGI provides a unique opportunity for talented individuals from both the public and private sector to contribute to work of national importance.

Join a team that’s supporting the government’s growth strategy

As part of government’s efforts to use financial transactions and contingent liabilities (including loans, equity investments and guarantees) to promote growth and investment, UKGI is working with departments to provide actionable advice in support of their policy aims. Following the October 2024 Budget, UKGI’s Financial Instruments and Transaction Advisory Group (FInTAG) has been asked by His Majesty’s Treasury to research and produce an annual report of all financial assets owned by the government to understand their true value, which will be used to help shape all future fiscal and financial planning that will define how government delivers on its priorities. This is a large expansion to our remit resulting in new opportunities for motivated individuals to join us and have a real impact on growth projects across the country such as affordable homes, national infrastructure projects and energy security.

We bring together a mix of corporate finance, data, credit risk and actuarial skills to support government in creating value for society from its complex commercial interests. If you have these skills and would be interested in a career move where you can make a real difference, then we may be the team for you.

About The Role

You will be working in a highly collaborative, friendly, and open-minded team that is developing:
- Improvements to how we collect data across government,
streamline data structures,
and utilising said data for products
to support delivering
the team objectives
and benefit other governmental departments;
- New analytical methodologies
for stress testing
the governments contingent liability;
analyse value,
risk
and performance across government's contingent liabilities
and financial transactions;
develop analytical pipelines
to inform reports produced,
ensuring ongoing work continuously improves
a wide range
of analytical work undertaken;
- Better data
and analytical solutions
for entire organisation.

You will also lead
the analytical part
of portfolio analysis
and engagement team,
with opportunity
to matrix manage wider analytical
and data teams.

During your time with FInTAG,
key areas include:
- Direct line management responsibility
for up-to 2 managers
with matrix responsibilities
for up-to 8 people
in wider multi-disciplinary teams.
- As part
of this matrix manage
and coach colleagues
from other FInTAG teams.
- Ensure development,
implementation,
adherence
to data governance
management structures
processes.
- Take ownership
of FInTAG cross-government
data collection requiring
data inputs
from 18 governmental departments
across series
of complex financial instruments.
- Ensure collected
maintained
data fit purpose
available
for other teams
departments access
provide insights
as part
analytical pipeline.
- Progress FInTAGs plan
develop cross-government monitoring hub
make held available
other departments subject
to sharing sensitivity constraints.
- Lead through technical engagements
with departments setting out
how land complex analysis/messaging
easy-understand manner. Support
team secure buy-in
departments share contingent liability,coporate finance,and other datasets.- Work project management team ensure project management principles applied delivery data analytics projects.Guide PMO individual workstream leads monitor & report progress actively manage risks.- Identify opportunities further develop knowledge experience team.Actively seek consider new tools techniques could applied address analytic challenges issues.- Proactive development cross -UKGI Data Analysis function supports digital,data projects deliver business efficiencies.- Ensure other teams empowered make incremental improvements see go person advice best collect store maintain quality assure utilise hold collect.


About You

Essential criteria:
- Python coding skills if exceptional technical skills programming languages please still consider applying long willing learn python;
- Expert experience designing creating testing documenting new redeveloped software;
- Ability explore propose different problem-solving approaches essential skilled integrating testing multiple components systems interfaces.Key role taking ownership driving production;
- Experience developing implementing management strategy/or governance initiative led tangible outcomes use,value creation operational efficiency risk reduction;
- Experience management approaches operations including quality metadata master records cataloguing;
- Ability deal complexity ambiguity creative problem solving developing innovative solutions;

Communicating persuading influencing effectively organisational technical skill level boundaries understanding context.Makes complex technical information language simple accessible non-audiences.


Desirable:
-Familiarity cloud systems architecture devops/or architecture;-Experience range advanced modelling techniques;-Machine learning AI expertise;-Familiarity fiscal rules national accounts/or experience public sector accounting/financial reporting processes;-Experience contingent liabilities reporting processes;-Financial industries Corporate finance experience;-Experience creating visualisations PowerBI/Tableau/R(Shiny)/Python(Dash);Business Analysis(specifically respect digital changes);sound understanding project management delivery.


Diversity Statement

UKGI has strong commitment equality diversity.Our aim open inclusive organisation,recruiting retaining diverse,talented high-performing people who support develop one another.UKGI Disability Confident Employer.This means recognised employer confident leading way recruiting retaining staff disabilities.We offer interview any applicants disability indicated wish take part disability confident scheme provided meet essential criteria post set person specification.If need reasonable adjustments take selection process please tell us about application.UKGI also part ‘Great Place Work Veterans’ initiative.This means commitment diversity equality recruitment retention policy offer interview eligible applicants His Majesty's Armed Forces provided meet essential criteria post set person specification.Please indicate application wish application considered part initiative.In line company policy employing hybrid working model based 40% time home-based.At UKGI place high degree value life balance applications individuals seeking flexible working reduced hours contracts job shares actively encouraged.