Government Finance Function

The Government Finance Function (GFF) brings together everyone who works in finance, across every department and every public body. If you work in finance, you are part of the Government Finance Function!

We’re a diverse function of over 10,000 people, spread mainly across the UK with three-quarters of us based outside of London. We’re not just accountants; the GFF brings together a range of expertise, including strategic business partners, planning, performance, risk and audit professionals to name a few.

We have a common vision: ‘We put finance at the heart of decision making. Delivering value for money, strengthening public trust. By keeping to this, we ensure public money is spent efficiently and effectively, and we enable the delivery of high-quality public services.

Our people bring a wealth of varied experience, backgrounds and knowledge. We invest in building and strengthening capability to deliver excellent services, drive high performance and encourage creative and pragmatic solutions that support the business. The Government Finance Academy provides a cohesive learning and development offer for finance and non–finance staff across the Civil Service.

You can visit the Government Finance Function (GFF) website, or send an email for more information. If you’re looking for a specific course or supplier, take a look at the Finance qualifications available on the learning frameworks. Just remember you'll need to follow whatever your standard departmental procedures are for getting approval for your proposed booking and paying the course fee.

Some links are accessed via the OneFinance website. Civil and public servants can register for an account using their work email.

The current Learning Frameworks contract is ending on 30 April 2026. This change will impact when you can book learning linked to our Professions pages. To support you with this transition, any courses impacted by the change will display a notice.

The final date for bookings is 30 April 2026, with learning required to start by 31 July 2026 and finish by 31 January 2027. After this deadline, new bookings will resume after the new contract starts.

These changes are happening across a series of waves and more information can be found here. The products in Wave 1 will not be available to book from 30 June 2025, and products in Wave 2 will not be available to book from 1 November 2025. The products in Wave 3 will need to start by 30 April 2026 and therefore we recommend bookings are made six weeks before this, by 19 March 2026.