The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. This new role marks a genuinely exciting opportunity to deliver what will be a high-profile mandate for DBT-centric holistic reporting reform. The role sits within Company Law & Governance directorate is responsible for UK company law, corporate governance and reporting, which are core to providing a stable climate for investment and growth. This is an exciting time to join: Ministers are keen to develop policy that will improve the UK's corporate reporting and governance framework to support long term growth and encourage responsible corporate behaviour. The new Gateway function will be in addition to the Corporate Governance team's existing set of responsibilities across the Corporate Governance landscape, including topics like Executive Pay, Stewardship, Digitisation and the FTSE Women Leaders Review. We are a friendly, inclusive and collegiate directorate with a strong programme of learning & development - to help people learn more about the subject matter, succeed in their current roles and achieve their career potential. We are looking for a strategic and energetic team player who is equally confident working within the detail of specific policy development projects, as well as across a range of policy boundaries. This new role marks a genuinely exciting opportunity to deliver what will be a high-profile mandate for DBT-centric holistic reporting reform. The Gateway team will develop and deliver a strategic approach to managing the complex and overlapping reporting requirements imposed upon companies. By serving as a central point of coordination, the Head of the Corporate Reporting Gateway will play a tangibly meaningful role in helping ensure that all proposals for new or revised reporting requirements are thoroughly reviewed, optimised and coordinated before implementation; with the overarching aim of reducing any burdens to business that stand to inhibit growth. Responsibilities will include:

• The Head of the Gateway team will sit within the Corporate Governance team and work in close collaboration with the neighbouring Non-Financial Reporting (NFR) team on establishing a modernised set of principles for reporting which, in turn, will be operationalised in the medium and long term through the Gateway function.
• In the first instance, this role will work across the Corporate Governance and Non-Financial Reporting (NFR) teams to develop and operationalise the modernised framework and strategic surety required to manage down the complex and overlapping reporting requirements currently imposed upon companies.
• In the longer term, by serving as a central point of coordination, the Head of the Corporate Reporting Gateway will play a tangibly meaningful role in helping ensure that all proposals for new or revised reporting requirements are thoroughly reviewed, optimised and coordinated before implementation; with the overarching aim of reducing any burdens to business that stand to inhibit growth.
• In practical terms, the role will include relationship management across DBT, OGDs and business and regulatory stakeholders, in addition to close collaboration with analytical and legal teams for the delivery of robust, technical scrutiny across a variety of policy topics.
• This role will also play a key role in supporting the Non-Financial Reporting policy team's delivery of a consultation and high-profile White Paper, setting out a confident vision for the future of corporate reporting in the UK.
  
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