Director of Resources/Finance, Air Command

The current responsibilities of the role include:Professional Leadership of the 4500 Civil Servants in Air Command. Leadership and line management of mixed civilian and military teams, delivering professional financial, secretariat, business and personnel support, and commercial expertise. This includes continuing to deliver the Departments Finance and Commercial functional leadership programmes within the Air Command context and engaging with the wider government functions. Exercising control on behalf of the Chief of the Air Staff to ensure delivery within Air Commands agreed annual budget. This requires scrutiny and control of operating budgets including people, infrastructure and equipment, the latter split between equipment procurement and equipment support, ensuring correct accounting treatment and appropriate spending decisions. Leading the financial relationship with Defence Equipment & Support on equipment procurement and support, new including oversight of key RAF current and future capabilities.Chairing Air Commands Investment Approval Committee with personal delegated responsibility for the approval of projects with a whole life cost of up to 400m.Delivering the Air Command Top Level Budget within delegated annual control totals including the realisation of circa 4.3bn of efficiencies over 10 years, cutting across major areas of Airs activity and driving delivery of change across Air Command.Oversight of the Secretariats delivery of Parliamentary and Ministerial business.Acting as a role model in leadership across the Ministry of Defence where we expect all our senior leaders to be:Inspiring about our work and its futureConfident in our engagementEmpowering our teams to deliver