Deputy Director Corporate Finance

At the Department for Transport (DfT) we’re working to improve every kind of journey. We’re harnessing new technology to create safer, more sustainable transport. And, creating better connections between people and places, we’re enabling greater growth opportunities for communities UK-wide. It all means that here, you are part of something very different and special.

The Corporate Finance Advisory team, is DfT’s centre of excellence for corporate finance and complex commercial advice. Supporting teams across DfT and the wider DfT family the team advises, assures and in some cases leads on a range of commercial issues. This includes private finance advice, PFI portfolio mangment, asset sales, restructuring/company failures and market monitoring.

Responsibilities:

• Working with the Director of Corporate Finance and Property you will lead, manage, motivate and develop the Corporate Finance Advisory team, ensuring that the team provides a service that is high quality, effective, responsive and constructive.
• Providing high quality corporate finance advice on projects and programmes across the department. This will include bringing your commercial insight into policy formulation, commercial strategies and transaction structuring.
• Providing assurance on commercial issues as part of the Department’s governance framework; working with other centres of expertise within Whitehall, including the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) and UK Government Investments (UKGI);
• We operate a flexible deployment model and, in many cases, you will be responsible for managing a changing portfolio of projects, in other cases you may be seconded full time to work on a specific deal. In both scenarios you will need the ability to deliver to tight deadlines, manage teams, prioritise work and adapt your working style to meet the differing needs of clients.
• Maintaining regular oversight of financial market conditions and understanding the relevance that market developments will have on the Department’s policy and delivery objectives.
• Contributing to the corporate leadership and broader policy direction of DfT as a department that is ambitious, outward facing, flexible and somewhere people want to work; and
• You will be part of the Corporate Finance and Property Directorate senior leadership team and be responsible for supporting all team members as well as the development of commercial capability across the Department more broadly.