Finance Training Contract

Description

Good financial management is about using scarce public resources effectively and the Scottish Government has a responsibility for the propriety and regularity of the finances under its control. Budgeting, accounting for and managing public money, while delivering excellent services and adhering to the principles of best value for money. The Scottish Government is looking to strengthen its available learning provision, aiming to provide it in a way that will ensure staff can support the business aims and objectives and key performance indicators that underpin the National Outcomes for Scotland. Lot 1: Good financial management is about using scarce public resources effectively and the Scottish Government has a responsibility for the propriety and regularity of the finances under its control. Budgeting, accounting for and managing public money, while delivering excellent services and adhering to the principles of best value for money. The Scottish Government is looking to strengthen its available learning provision, aiming to provide it in a way that will ensure staff can support the business aims and objectives and key performance indicators that underpin the National Outcomes for Scotland. Although significant progress has been made, the organisation needs to respond quickly to changing demands and expectations, realising that there is always room for improvement, and is conscious of the need to embrace new and innovative ways of working towards the further development of general finance understanding and finance profession learning. To achieve this we aim to ensure that staff have the right Finance skills as part of a wider aspiration of improving commercial capability. As such, we are looking to put in place a contract that will provide Staff with an opportunity to access tailored and contextualised Finance and Accountancy Profession learning. Previously, learning provision was mostly delivered through classroom based learning. However, increasingly, we are using more eLearning material and the new contract will need to contain elements of existing material that can be used or an ability to develop and create the right kind of required learning resources. The ability to provide finance related face to face or virtual learning may still be necessary, along with the ability to provide accredited Continual Professional Development (CPD) activity for Accountants who are affiliated to a broad cross section of Accountancy bodies. That CPD may involve, but is not limited to, topics that specifically relates to technical accounting, changes/updates to IFRS, changes to the FreM etc. all in the context of Public Sector Finances. To this end the Scottish Government will be implementing a contract to provide the Scottish Government with tailored and contextualised learning. The contract will be an integral part of development opportunities that will build Finance capability across the wide range of knowledge levels required in our organisation.