Finance Business Partner (SPPA)

The Scottish Government; Galashiels; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A public service agency in Scotland seeks a motivated financial analyst to provide financial analysis and build relationships with budget holders. The role involves delivering value-added outcomes, advising on compliance, and translating financial data for effective decision-making. Ideal candidates will have a Level 4 qualification in a relevant field and experience in knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB, or CIMA or pursuing equivalent qualification.
• Experience in fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with customer budget holders.
• Provide advice on policy compliance and controls.
• Translate financial data to support business decisions.
• Provide guidance at budget holder meetings.
• Review business cases and strategic documentation.
• Apply relevant costs, benefits, and investment appraisal techniques.
• Provide coaching and training to the business.
• Deliver ad-hoc analysis and presentations.

Job description

Location

Galashiels, Scotland,

Job summary

Are you motivated to provide financial analysis, build relationships with stakeholders and to ensure the delivery of value-added outcomes?

The Scottish Public Pensions Agency is an Agency of the Scottish Government. Our principal role is to administer the pensions for employees in the National Health Service, Teachers’, Police and Fire-fighters’ pension schemes in Scotland. The Agency administers these public service pension schemes on behalf of Scottish Ministers to over 640,000 members with annual payments of over £3.7 billion, together with the related agency administration expenditure of c. £31 million.

The Scottish Public Pensions Agency’s Finance function delivers a complete financial management, reporting, and treasury service combined with responsibility for finance transactions with members and employers. You will play a key role in developing relationships and sharing and collating financial information with stakeholders to drive effective decision making.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining relationships with customer budget holders.
• Providing advice on compliance with policy, standards, accountabilities and controls.
• Translating, owning and adding insight to financial data to provide clear information and evidence to support business activities and requirements.
• Providing guidance at appropriate level budget holder meetings and boards.
• Reviewing and providing input to business cases/ strategic documentation.
• Identifying and applying relevant costs, benefits and investment appraisal techniques.
• Providing relevant coaching and training to the business.
• Providing ad-hoc analysis and presentations to drive and support business decisions, such as efficiency and cost reduction options, using all available data and analytics tools.

Person specification

Qualifications

Recommended Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB or CIMA or working towards qualification with CCAB, CIMA or equivalent.

Success Profile

Success profiles are specific to each job and they include the mix of skills, experience and behaviours candidates will be assessed on.

Technical / Professional Skills:

1. Understanding of Forecasting:Knowledge of the forecasting mechanisms including frequency of preparation and depth of detail in collaboration with stakeholders adhering to deadlines – Working.
2. Data Analysis:Applies knowledge of relevant data analysis packages and methodologies in conjunction with strong analytical skills to examine varied sources of information in order to support decision making – Practitioner.
3. Government Financial Reporting:Activity related to the application of the Government Financial Reporting Manual (FReM) and other statutory reporting requirements, including technical accounting guidance for the preparation of financial statements – Working.

Skill Levels:

Working - Moderate understanding of the topic with occasional use in role/prior experience.

Practitioner - Strong understanding of the topic with regular use in role/moderate prior experience.

Experience:

Experience in fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration between the business and finance.

Behaviours:

• Communicating and Influencing - (Level 3)
• Delivering at Pace - (Level 3)
• Working Together - (Level 3)

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