Senior Finance Business Partner

Hoople; Hereford; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Hoople is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to lead financial management and support stakeholders within Herefordshire Council. The role involves overseeing budget management, developing financial strategies, and ensuring effective resource use. With benefits like a generous annual leave and flexible working, this position is ideal for experienced accountants looking to make a positive impact.

Benefits

Generous Annual Leave

Flexible Working Options

Employee Assistance Programme

Payment of Professional Membership Fees

Pick Your Perks

Qualifications

• Significant experience in local government finance.
• Experience providing financial support to children’s social care and schools finance.
• Skilled in developing relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Accountable to the Strategic Finance Manager, manage the Directorate Finance team.
• Provide high-quality financial advice to budget managers.
• Promote best financial practices across the organization.

Skills

Financial Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Budget Management

Education

Qualified Accountant

Job description

About The Role
Contract: Permanent
Salary: HC12£55,594 to £61,655
Hours: 37
Location: Plough Lane, Hereford /hybrid working available
Closing Date: 07/07/2025
About the role:
As an experienced accountant with significant experience of local government finance, you will bring experience of customer focus and a proven ability in effective budget/financial management at senior level.
As Senior Finance Business Partner, you will build strong relationships with your stakeholders, gaining an in-depth knowledge of the drivers and issues that they face to inform the analysis of the results and provide effective challenge of assumptions and judgements in financial information. You will use your knowledge, experience and financial expertise to promote best financial practices across the organisation.
This role is accountable to the Strategic Finance Manager and has management responsibility for the Directorate Finance business partnering team. The post holder will ensure the provision of high quality and timely advice to budget managers to support financial management and inform decision making and effective use of resources across the Directorate. As a skilled and effective people manager, you will develop effective working relationships with stakeholders; inspiring confidence through the provision of high-quality financial information to advise and influence Directors, Heads of Service and Service Managers. Experience and knowledge of providing financial support to both children’s social care and schools finance services will be preferable.
We have recently transformed the financial reporting arrangements across the council; improving and enhancing the way that the Finance function adds value to the council’s service areas and strategic objectives. The council’s statutory accounts and audit are up to date; the 2023/24 accounts were published by the statutory deadline with an unqualified audit opinion in October 2024.
For any informal enquiries please contact Wendy Pickering, Strategic Finance Manager:
Email: [e-mail]
Tel: [phone]
How to apply: Please find the Job Description attached. Please submit your CV along with a Supporting Statement evidencing how you meet the criteria. This should include examples which demonstrate the experience, skills and knowledge that you would bring to the role.
Benefits of working for Herefordshire Council:
A competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension andstaff benefits scheme, which includes:

• PensionScheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS)
• Generous Annual Leave:31 days’ annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum
• Flexible working:flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working
• Employee Assistance Programme:24/7 access to support and counselling
• Payment ofprofessional membership fees
• Pick your perks– our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.

We welcome applicants whatever their personal characteristics or social identity. All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered.
The following candidates will be interviewed if they meet the essential criteria for the post they are applying for:

• Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to the “Disability Confident” scheme;
• Those who indicate in their supported statement that they serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, or their families. This is part of our pledge to support the Armed Forces Covenant;
• Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are a Herefordshire care leaver. This is part of our commitment to supportingyoung people leaving our care.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details of this role.
To apply, please submit your CV and complete thesupporting statement within the application form, referring to the job description & person specification, detailing how you meet the specific requirements of the role.
The Council plan sets out how we will make our contribution to achieving a better and more successful Herefordshire, please see the link below to find out more:
Herefordshire Council Plan 2024-28