Finance Business Partner – Royal Navy

Ministry of Defence; New Abbey; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A government organization is seeking a Finance Business Partner to provide strategic financial advice and leadership within the finance team. This role involves driving financial performance, supporting business outcomes, and facilitating continuous improvement. The successful candidate will enhance decision-making quality and be expected to engage with wider leadership in the finance sector. This position is primarily office-based in Portsmouth, with some travel required.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering strategic financial advice.
• Proven ability to drive financial performance against targets.
• Understanding of financial accounting treatment.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and line management to your team.
• Support the business in delivering outcomes.
• Drive financial performance and identify remedial actions.
• Provide insight and analysis on financial plans.
• Report and analyze business financial positions.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Professional skills

Deep technical knowledge

Financial analysis

Leadership

Job description

This Finance Business Partner role will require you to utilise abilities and strengths drawn from interpersonal and professional skills supported by deep technical knowledge. By applying these abilities together with their contextual understanding of your business’ strategic goals, plans, performance and risk management, you as the FBP will be equipped to provide strategic financial advice and enhance the quality of decision making.

As part of the Navy finance leadership team you will support the development of your team and wider finance function, providing opportunities for development and encouraging ideas for improving team performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide Leadership and Line Management to your team.
• Supporting the business to deliver their outcomes – Working collaboratively with the business and other functions to enable the delivery of business plans and objectives.
• Driving financial performance – against agreed targets working with partners. Develop an understanding of the drivers behind key variations and work with the business to identify remedial actions, risks and opportunities.
• Providing constructive challenge, scrutiny, insight and analysis on financial plans and programmes to ensure ambitions are sustainable, aligned to strategy, maximise value for money and are linked to benefits.
• Reporting and analysing the business financial position for consolidation to Head of Corporate Reporting.
• Reviewing Financial Accounting treatment and resolution of accounting anomalies and/or anything adversely impacting the SOFP.
• Input into the development of business cases, investment appraisals and proposals identifying and highlighting any potential issues.
• To find opportunities for new efficiencies and support in delivering the existing pipeline.
• Implementing Continuous Improvement – embedding continuous improvement in the service finance provides by seeking and delivering those changes that add most value.
• Acting as the link between the business and the rest of finance - engaging with the wider business and knowing how to network across the broader function to access deep technical expertise.
• Building effective engagement – developing successful partnerships and maintaining relationships with business leadership and across your spere of influence.

Location

For this role the business needs are such that the successful applicant should expect to be regularly in office in Portsmouth with some travel to other MoD locations.