Assistant Director Strategic Finance


Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Salary:	£69,501 to £69,501 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Southampton
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	28 Sept 2026
Closing date:	16 Oct 2026

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Summary

Do you have significant experience of financial strategy and planning?

Have you led high-performing finance teams and influenced senior stakeholders to support effective decision making?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is seeking an Assistant Director Strategic Finance to provide strategic focus and oversight of the Agency’s finances. Working within the Finance and Analysis Directorate, you will help ensure MCA’s c.£500m total budget is deployed efficiently, robust budget control is maintained and value for money is achieved. This is a senior leadership role, reporting to the Director of Finance and Analysis and leading teams responsible for financial strategy and finance business partnering.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday
Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at: Maritime and Coastguard Agency - Department for Transport Careers

As Assistant Director Strategic Finance, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight of MCA’s financial plans, ensuring strong budget control, high-quality financial analysis and effective advice to senior stakeholders. You will lead the Strategic Finance function, support investment and funding decisions, and help shape a high-performing, continuously improving finance culture.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

Leading MCA’s Financial Strategy and Finance Business Partner teams, embedding a high-performance culture.

Providing strategic financial advice and analysis to senior stakeholders to support effective decision making.

Negotiating and secure investment and resource funding for key Agency activities and major change programmes.

Ensuring robust resource and capital financial plans are aligned to organisational priorities and HM Treasury guidance.

Overseeing the reporting of accurate and timely financial management information and analysis to drive efficiency and value-added insight.

Leading MCA’s efficiency strategy, establishing clear controls, accountability and monitoring arrangements.

Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing and challenging decision making where appropriate.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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