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Financial management

Financial management involves planning, organising and monitoring financial resources.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • understand the financial impact of the work you do and how cost and budgets are created
2. Working

You can:

  • balance cost versus value
  • consider the impact of user needs
  • report on financial delivery
  • monitor cost and budget
  • understand how and when to escalate issues
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • negotiate, influence or set budgets in complex environments
  • write or input into business cases and can communicate business-value propositions
4. Expert

You can:

  • influence or create complex budgets across an organisation, programme or product view
  • manage the budget you are given and make it work

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Associate delivery managerDelivery manager5Awareness
Delivery managerDelivery manager7Working
Senior delivery managerDelivery manager8aPractitioner
Head of delivery managementDelivery manager8cPractitioner
Trainee financial accountantFinancial accountant5Awareness
Financial accountantFinancial accountant6Working
Senior financial accountantFinancial accountant7Practitioner
Financial accounting managerFinancial accountant8aPractitioner
Head of financial accountsFinancial accountant8bExpert
Financial controllerHead of finance8cExpert
Deputy director of financeHead of finance8dExpert
Director of financeHead of finance9Expert
Director of procurement and commercialHead of procurement9Expert
Trainee management accountantManagement accountant5Awareness
Management accountantManagement accountant6Working
Programme delivery managerProgramme delivery manager8bExpert
Senior programme delivery managerProgramme delivery manager8cExpert
Project managerProject manager6Working
Senior project managerProject manager7Practitioner
Lead project managerProject manager8aPractitioner
Head of project managementProject manager8bPractitioner