Fees and Income Planning Officer

What the official sources confirm

The Home Office listed this permanent, flexible-working role at Senior Executive Officer, with a salary of £49,850 to £56,850 across London, North West England and Yorkshire and the Humber. The published closing date is 21 August 2026.

The department’s Finance profession page places fees and income work inside a directorate covering operational finance, strategic advice and transformation. It names data-led forecasting, finance transactions, management accounting, business partnering and programme finance among the wider profession’s activities. That is useful context, but it is not a substitute for this vacancy’s full responsibilities.

What the title suggests you should prepare

This is a preparation inference, not a claim about unpublished criteria. A fees and income planning officer is likely to need evidence of disciplined forecasting, credible assumptions, financial judgement and the ability to explain a recommendation to people who are not finance specialists.

At SEO, an example should show more than accurate spreadsheet work. It should demonstrate how you framed the decision, tested uncertainty, handled competing interests and helped others act on the result.

Evidence to prepare first

Choose one example where the starting information was incomplete or contested. Explain how you established a baseline, tested assumptions, identified sensitivities and converted the analysis into a decision. Quantify the scale and consequence where you truthfully can.

Prepare a second example about challenge: perhaps correcting an optimistic forecast, strengthening a business case, improving a control or resolving disagreement between policy, operational and finance colleagues. The useful detail is what you personally noticed, said and changed.

Checks before applying

Open the Civil Service Jobs advert and record the required documents, word counts, sift criteria, professional qualifications, location rules and assessment stages. The Home Office mirror gives the closing date, not the exact cut-off time, so do not rely on the end-of-day value used on this page for sorting.

If a technical finance framework is named, answer that framework directly rather than treating the application as a generic Success Profiles exercise.

How to make the application stronger

Keep the chain visible: question → evidence → assumptions → options → recommendation → outcome. Avoid presenting a large financial total as proof by itself. Panels need to see the quality of your judgement and the effect of your intervention.