Finance Business Partner

TN United Kingdom; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

This innovative firm is seeking Finance Business Partners to provide strategic financial advice and support transformational change. You will play a vital role in driving performance improvement by collaborating with various departments to optimize savings in a financially challenging environment. Ideal candidates will possess strong financial analysis skills, excellent communication abilities, and a proven track record in building effective relationships. If you thrive on challenges and are passionate about making a difference in the community, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Flexible working arrangements are available to support a balanced work-life integration.

Qualifications

• Hold a CCAB or equivalent qualification with relevant membership.
• Proven ability to build effective relationships across teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advice to support decision making in the Council.
• Deliver accurate financial information for reporting and analysis.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Communication Skills

Strategic Advice

Problem Solving

Relationship Building

Education

CCAB or equivalent qualification

Job description

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Finance Business Partner, Leicestershire

Client:

Leicestershire County Council

Location:

County Hall, Glenfield, Leicestershire, LE3 8RA

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

2b2048e9f7e2

Job Views:

5

Posted:

24.04.2025

Expiry Date:

08.06.2025

Job Description:

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Working Hours: 37 hours a week for 3 posts (although open to discussions around part-time working hours)

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 16th May 2025

Interview Date(s): Week Commencing 2nd June 2025

Are you a confident communicator with excellent business partnering and financial analysis experience? Do you think practically, troubleshooting issues with sound logical solutions? Do you thrive on a challenge and are driven by supporting the delivery of sustainable change that will make a real difference to Leicestershire residents? If so, then we would like to hear from you.

We are looking to recruit several Finance Business Partners to support:

• Corporate Resources and Environment and Transport Services Departments
• Corporate Capital Programme
• Adults and Communities Department

About the Role

As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in providing financial advice, developing and improving strategic financial insight, driving performance improvement and supporting departments in the delivery of transformational change. This role offers the unique opportunity to influence key business decisions through collaborative working to ensure saving opportunities are optimised within a financially challenging environment.

The main duties and responsibilities of the role include:

• Provide strategic advice and guidance to the Senior Leadership team and elected members to support decision making, whilst challenging and influencing decision makers to ensure the best outcome is obtained for the Council.
• Support the creation and delivery of the Council’s medium-term financial strategy and corporate transformation agenda ensuring opportunities to improve efficiency and service delivery outcomes are identified, analysed and implemented.
• Gain sufficient understanding of the business needs and its operations to evaluate strategic implications of financial issues ensuring managers have appropriate advice, knowledge and skills to discharge their financial responsibilities.
• Deliver accurate, timely and relevant financial information used by the department including financial reporting and analysis, financial planning and submissions to government or partner organisations.
• Support the department in identifying, analysing and implementing options for improving efficiency and/or service delivery outcomes. Ensuring the financial management arrangements following the change are appropriate and provide best use of LCC resources.
• Support the development of management information and the related systems to improve the links between financial information, operational activity and outcomes: focusing on price and volume analysis, unit costing and benchmarking.
• Ensuring the Council’s financial management policies and procedures are communicated and implemented effectively within the department, including working with Corporate Finance to evolve policies to reflect changes in services and in response to issues.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Hold a CCAB or equivalent qualification with relevant up to date membership (essential criteria).
• Have a proven ability to build and maintain effective relationships that maximise co-operation across teams, services and organisational boundaries to achieve desired results.
• Work co-operatively across team, service, organisational and partnership boundaries to improve performance and resolve financial problems, particularly efficiency, with sound workable solutions.
• Interpret and use a range of financial information to inform decisions and manage risks, whilst simultaneously recognising wider political and organisational priorities.
• Demonstrate an appropriate level of influence and persuasion and be able to promote own case.
• Gather information from external and internal sources to enhance problem solving and decision-making including ability to develop and articulate complex financial information to a range of stakeholders. Includes tailoring written and verbal communication to meet different and diverse needs, whilst maintaining consistency of key messages.
• Act as finance lead, providing financial support and advice from concept through to delivery on projects, programmes and/or capital schemes spanning one or more years.

Although working in a Local Government environment would be beneficial, it is not essential for this position and candidates who have worked in a similar role in a large complex organisation will be looked on favourably.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Susan Baum, Strategic Finance Manager, Corporate Resources and Environment & Transport Departments

Telephone: [phone]

Email:

section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal.