Finance Business Partner

HM Revenue & Customs; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

HM Revenue & Customs is seeking a proactive Finance Business Partner in the Manchester/Leeds region to deliver high‑calibre financial management and drive value through strategic planning and senior stakeholder engagement. The role requires CCAB qualification, strong analytical ability, and robust communication to influence decision‑makers.

You will work across the CDIO Strategic Services Division, providing expert financial insight, supporting credible plans, and coaching teams to improve

Qualifications

• CCAB-qualified accountant with extensive financial management experience.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Strong analytical capability with data-driven insights.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills.
• Experience in large, complex organisations.
• Ability to lead and develop others.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist financial advice to IT and budgeting with key planning and budgeting.
• Deliver financial information to the business with clear recommendations using data and analytics.
• Support development and execution of credible financial plans aligned with strategy.
• Attend and influence senior leader boards and committees with robust challenge.
• Involved early in idea pipeline, supporting business case development through financial insight.
• Drive evidence-based decision-making across the business.
• Coach and develop finance colleagues to close knowledge gaps.
• Horizon scan to identify issues and help develop viable financial solutions.
• Manage team members and develop leadership within/across teams.
• Drive cultural change to improve financial information, processes, and capability.
• Collaborate with Transformation Portfolio and Finance community to influence change.

Skills

Chartered Accountant

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Excel

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Change management

Education

CCAB Fully Qualified Chartered Accountant with CIMA/ACCA/CIPFA/ACA or equivalent UK professional body

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Location

Leeds Regional Centre - Wellington Place, Manchester Regional Centre - Three New Bailey, Newcastle Upon Tyne - Benton Park View, Telford - Plaza 1 and 2

Please note that due to workforce controls, Newcastle is only available to existing HMRC staff in this location.

About the job

Job summary

Sitting within the Financial Management Division within the CDIO Strategic Services Division, this role is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, proactive finance professional, who enjoys working in a dynamic and challenging environment, to both deliver exceptional finance service and to lead and influence organisational change through strong financial management.

Job description

Finance Business Partners are our business experts. They couple financial acumen and expertise with strong interpersonal relationship and influencing skills. They understand the business and can translate and present complex financial information in clear and concise ways for a variety of audiences, often more senior to themselves.

They provide valuable financial advice, challenge and strategic insight to budget holders and senior decision-makers to drive value for money outcomes. They have the desire and ability to take on large and complex delivery areas to help them navigate high-profile and often financially challenging environments.

Person specification

Key Responsibilities

• Providing specialist financial advice – engaging with IT experts and providing advice on key financial planning, processes, and budget setting.
• Taking responsibility for providing financial information to the business with clear advice and recommendations, using all available data and analytics tools.
• Supporting the development and implementation of credible financial plans that are consistent with HMRCs strategic direction, performance and delivery plans.
• Attending and influencing senior leader boards and committees, providing robust challenge that considers the wider financial position of both the CDIO Group and HMRC.
• Involved at the start of the idea pipeline, engaging early in solution development and supporting the creation and approval of business cases through strong financial insight throughout the process.
• Driving evidence-based decisions through challenging and supporting the business to enhance decision-making,
• Providing coaching and feedback proactively to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business and finance colleagues and increasing performance through informed and objective advice.
• Horizon scanning to identify potential issues and helping CDIO directorates develop financially viable solutions.
• Management of team members and/or oversight of others work and developing leadership skills within and across teams.
• Driving cultural change to improve SSD leadership by role-modelling behaviours that inspire, motivate, empower, support, celebrate successes and tackle inappropriate behaviour/ poor performance.
• Influencing and driving cultural change to improve financial information, innovation, processes, systems, assurance and financial capability.

Working collaboratively and building strong relationships with the HMRC Transformation Portfolio, Programme and Finance community, to influence and drive finance effective change.

Essential Criteria

• CCAB (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent fully qualified chartered accountant.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insight to support analysis and decision making.
• Excellent IT/Excel, oral and written skills.
• Proven experience of working in a large and complex organisation.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to support wider business stakeholders.
• Confident communicator, comfortable with robustly challenging senior business leaders and decision-makers.
• Ability to work in a culture of change, to think strategically and work comfortably with risk.

Desirable Criteria

• Understanding of ERP systems.
• Previous experience of working within or supporting an IT organisation from a finance perspective.
• Previous experience of working within a public sector or not-for-profit organisation's finance team.

Further Location Information

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a ‘Further Location Preferences (optional)’ field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.

Office Closures

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Leeds Location

Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.

Qualifications

CCAB Fully Qualified Chartered Accountant with CIMA,
ACCA CIPFA,
ACA or equivalent UK professional body.

Behaviours

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

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

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

• Technical Skills question relating to the key responsibilities listed in the advert.

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