Purchase to Pay & Corporate Services Manager

If youre interested in making a difference to peoples lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.

Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.

We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a cross-government hub bringing people together to tackle key national issues while working closer to the communities we serve.

Key Accountabilities

Operational Delivery and Process Leadership

• Subject matter expert for the entire Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process and lead operational delivery for Corporate Services contracts. Providing full compliance with financial standards and Managing Public Money guidelines.
• Work closely with teams throughout the department and key collaborators to continuously enhance processes and ensure compliance, improving data accuracy, integrity, and accessibility.
• Work alongside Contract Managers and broader partners to advance the Pipeline Procurement and Contracts Database (Atamis), boosting data quality and usability across the department.

Leadership & People Management

• Lead the team by setting clear objectives, handling performance, and supporting professional development. Championing a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure effective allocation of resources and workload to meet service delivery targets, advancing risks with proposed mitigation strategies.
• Provide cross-cover within the Finance Operations Management team during peak periods and annual leave, ensuring continuity of key tasks such as ad‑hoc payment approvals, bank reconciliations, and cash management.

Governance & Reporting

• Review monthly performance of the function and evaluate its service delivery in relation to departmental needs.
• Produce and analyse monthly and quarterly commercial MI, delivering insights to support senior stakeholder decision‑making.
• Act as the authority on Government Finance and Government Commercial Functional Standards.
• Lead all aspects of audit requests and timely responses to PQs and FOIs.

Process Improvement & Risk Management

• Identify and introduce operational changes within the function to improve efficiency and lower risk.
• Lead on delivering real-time management information to improve departmental process compliance.
• Develop, maintain, and assure Standard Operating Procedures and control frameworks to mitigate fraud and error.

Stakeholder Management & Engagement

• Lead stakeholder engagement activity, working closely with Central Finance and other partners to build strong, positive relationships that support operational improvement.
• Communicate complex commercial and financial information clearly and effectively, providing expert advice to non‑specialists.
• Manage the development and rollout of training to enable business areas to conduct procurement accurately and proactively.

Coordinate supplier performance reviews and contribute to contract management activities to ensure value for money.

Candidate Drop-In Session

The hiring manager will be running a candidate drop-in session to give you greater insight about the role and HM Treasury and ask any questions you might have. If you would like to join us, use the link below to join the call at the right time.

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date, please contact [email protected]

Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Application Stage

Required Qualifications

AAT or CIPS Level 3 part or fully qualified or prepared to study towards.

In your application form, youll be asked to confirm that you hold this qualification. You will need to provide evidence of this qualification if you are invited to interview.

Application Form

Applications should consist of a CV including your employment history, and a 250-word statement demonstrating evidence of each of the below shortlisting criteria. Your CV and employment history wont be scored. Its used to give context to your application and support discussions at interview.

The panel will review applications and invite those that best demonstrate evidence of the shortlisting criteria below for interview. Please keep this in mind when writing your application.

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

1. Managing a Quality Service: Ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships for effective management of service delivery and improvement.
2. Making Effective Decisions: An ability to think creatively to solve complex problems whilst meeting the needs of the customer and the business
3. Changing & Improving: Able to demonstrate an understanding of transactional and financial reporting standards and implementing process improvements.
4. Experience: Experience of managing a P2P (Purchase-to-Pay) function and working with Oracle ERP or similar systems.

The lead criterion is: Managing a Quality Service

If we receive a high volume of applications, well first sift using the lead criterion only. Those meeting the minimum score will then be assessed against all remaining criteria.

Interview Stage

If you are successful at the application stage, you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Experience

• Strengths

• Behaviours: Managing a Quality Service, Changing and Improving and Communicating and Influencing.