Finance Business Partner

Maritime and Coastguard Agency; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A government maritime agency in Eastleigh is seeking a Finance Business Partner to provide strategic financial advice and support decision-making. The role requires strong interpersonal skills and qualifications in CCAB/CIMAA. Benefits include a generous pension contribution and flexible working options. Ideal candidates will have experience in financial management and the ability to influence strategy effectively.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 28.97%

25 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Finance Business Partner or relevant financial strategy role.
• Ability to provide strategic advice and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Provide financial management information and analysis.
• Support senior management in financial planning and strategy.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Influencing skills

Education

Qualified in CCAB/CIMAA

Job description

Location

Southampton

About the job

Job summary

Have you got experience in a Finance Business Partner, or relevant financial management or financial strategy role?

Do you have the skills to translate and align business and finance objectives, and to provide constructive challenge to influence strategy and enhance the quality of decision-making?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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Job description

MCA's Finance vision is to put finance at the heart of decision making to enable and protect delivery of MCA’s strategic goals. The Finance Business Partnering model is critical to this and requires Finance Business Partners to act in the following roles.

Business Expert - to have a deep understanding of their business area and use their knowledge and expertise to add value.

Influential Voice – provide the financial ‘voice’ of the business, using effective communication skills to translate and align the business and finance agendas, and to influence strategy and provide constructive challenge to enhance the quality of decision-making.

Financial Advisor - provide the business with insight and recommendations to facilitate delivery of their strategy. Being the source of technical knowledge, strategic insight, commercial acumen and an understanding of business risk and opportunity.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with the Executive Director and senior stakeholders within partnering business area, in particular developing trust and rapport, to influence and challenge decision making, ensuring that Finance is considered in strategic, commercial and operational decisions.
• Develop a good understanding of the business area, seeking opportunities to better understand the commercial and operational drivers with a focus on complex or high‑risk issues.
• Provide strategic advice and analysis on financial impact, performance and risk to senior stakeholders and, through this, contribute to the strategic direction of the business area.
• Present accurate and clearly communicated financial management information and analysis to Directorate Management Boards to ensure appropriate financial management.
• Provide recommendations and value adding insight to support decision making within the business area and to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
• Work alongside Executive Director and senior stakeholders within partnering business area to ensure that credible financial plans are developed, and included within the Agency’s longer term financial planning, annual budgeting, monthly forecasting. Provide constructive challenge to ensure plans are realistic and achievable.
• Support the Director of Finance and Transformation, Chief Financial Officer and Accounting Officer in their roles as a member of the and the Executive Team and MCA Board, ensuring that the agency’s Financial Management Strategy and the related financial controls are operated effectively.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Person specification

Essential qualifications:

1. Qualified in CCAB/ CIMAA

Required experience:

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

1. Experience in a Finance Business Partner, or relevant financial management or financial strategy role
2. Highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills

Additional Information

Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week. Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 20 hours per week.

This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.

The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your principal workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, visiting stakeholders and colleagues, or carrying out detached duty in another DfT or agency workplace. The chosen principal workplace will be the designated place of work and any remote or home working arrangement does not constitute a change to the designated place of work or contractual terms and conditions. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.

For more information on how this works for this role, please contact the Vacancy Holder (see below for contact details).

Occasional travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. Therefore, this role is not open to applications from those who require sponsorship – candidates must ensure they have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Qualifications

Applicants are required to be qualified in CCAB/ CIMAA.

You will be required to provide evidence that you hold the essential qualification at some point during the recruitment process. If you cannot provide evidence, your application will be withdrawn.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

For more information and to apply, please click the apply button below.