Finance Business Partner

HM Revenue & Customs; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A government financial agency is seeking a Finance Business Partner to provide expert financial advice and drive value from financial data. The ideal candidate will hold a CCAB qualification, possess strong communication and analytical skills, and excel in a dynamic environment. Responsibilities include influencing decision-makers and shaping financial strategies.

Qualifications

• Must be a qualified accountant (CCAB).
• Ability to build strong working relationships with stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills to influence senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial advice and recommendations to the business.
• Support development and implementation of financial plans.
• Influence senior leader boards and committees.

Skills

Financial advice

Stakeholder relationship management

Analytical skills

Communication

Leadership

Education

CCAB (CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Job description

Location

Telford - Plaza 1 and 2

Job summary

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC.

Do you have a firm foundation of finance experience and are now looking for the next step in your finance career path?

If so, HMRC’s Digital, Data and Technology function (otherwise known as Chief Digital and Information Officer group or ‘CDIO’) is seeking an exceptional Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic Financial Management Division. With over 3,500 people, CDIO Group are a key part of ensuring HMRC has the systems and technology to run and deliver its services to millions of citizens.

This role is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled, motivated, and ambitious individual to help drive value from our financial data. You will use your strong influencing, communicating and management accounting knowledge to generate insightful information and advice that will inform strategic decision-making by senior leaders.

If you thrive in fast-paced environments and are ready to make a significant impact by bringing your skills and ideas to a challenging yet supportive environment, then this could be the ideal next role for you.

Job description

Sitting within the Financial Management Division within the CDIO Finance Directorate, 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.

Finance Business Partners working in CDIO provide valuable financial advice, challenge, and offer strategic insight to budget holders and senior decision-makers to drive value for money outcomes. With responsibility for supporting large and complex delivery areas, Finance Business Partners proactively prioritise and have the resilience to navigate high-profile and often financially challenging environments.

This role is focussed on managing Spending Review related change funding and investments across several cross-cutting business streams.

Person specification

• 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 Change Portfolio Group and HMRC Change Delivery.
• Involved at the start of the idea pipeline for the assigned business area, 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 CDIO Finance 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 Change Delivery Group, Transformation Portfolio, Programme and Finance community, to influence and drive effective change.

Essential Criteria:

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

Desirable Criteria:

• Recent experience of working in a Project and Programme environment as a business partner.
• Recent experience of producing business case financial models and financial case narrative to support investment decisions.
• Experience of working on a Government Major Project in a finance role.

Qualifications

CCAB (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent fully qualified accountant.

Behaviours

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

• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture

Technical skills

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

• You will also be asked 1 technical question design to assess your technical understanding and competency towards the job requirements.