Finance Business Partner

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

Job summary

HM Revenue & Customs is seeking Finance Business Partners who combine financial acumen with strong interpersonal and influencing skills. They translate complex financial information for diverse audiences and provide strategic insight to drive value for money outcomes.

They support large, complex delivery areas, challenge budgets, and influence senior decision-makers. The role includes coaching, horizon scanning, and building strong stakeholder relationships across the organisation.

Qualifications

• CCAB or equivalent fully qualified chartered accountant.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build strong stakeholder relationships.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into insights.
• Excellent IT/Excel, oral and written communication skills.
• Experience in large, public sector or not-for-profit organisations.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist financial advice to IT and business partners on planning, processes and budget setting.
• Deliver clear financial information with recommendations using data and analytics tools.
• Support development and implementation of credible financial plans aligned to strategy.
• Attend and influence senior boards and committees with robust financial challenge.
• Engage early in solution development and support business cases with financial insight.
• Drive evidence-based decisions and coach teams to improve financial capability.
• Perform horizon scanning to identify issues and develop viable financial solutions.
• Manage team members and develop leadership skills across teams.
• Drive cultural change to enhance financial leadership and accountability.
• Collaborate to improve financial information, processes and assurance; understand ERP systems.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Strong analytical skills

Excellent IT/Excel

Confident communicator

Translate financial data into insight

Education

CCAB or equivalent fully qualified chartered accountant

Tools

ERP systems

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.