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.

Responsibilities

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,
- Utilising said data for products to support delivering team objectives,
- Benefit other government departments;
- New analytical methodologies for stress testing governments' contingent liability;
- Analyse value,
- Risk,
- Performance across government's contingent liabilities
- Financial transactions;
- New analytical pipelines
to inform reports produced,
and ensure ongoing work continuously improves wide range analytical work undertaken;
and
New innovative data
analytical solutions for entire organisation.

During your time with FInTAG key areas include supporting:
1. Ensuring collaboration with wider team methodologies fully utilise collected data considering limitations;
2. Working across UKGI identifying how analyse value risk performance across government's contingent liabilities financial transactions;
3. Supporting improvements approach analysis ensuring robustness fit purpose;
4. Support presenting communication technical matters clearly technical non-technical audiences customers;
5. Supporting others distil findings technical financial matters effectively disseminated non-experts.

Essential criteria

As an analyst working with modelling analysis development you'll have demonstrable passion developing new analysis along following skills experience:
• You will have had role Assistant Economist or similar previously within public sector.
• Utilising external sources support developing new analytical methods.
• Good understanding standards respect producing quality analysis quality assurance.
• Strong understanding using Excel effectively prior experience R Python or demonstrable willingness learn.
• Strong understanding communicate analytical results effectively impact including non-audiences.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills troubleshooting issues optimising processes.

Desirable
• Familiarity fiscal rules national accounts;
• Experience public sector financial accounting 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;

Don’t worry if feel don’t meet essential criteria enthusiasm willingness learn important so please consider position interests you.

Diversity Statement

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