Senior Finance Business Partner

Government Recruitment Service; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 88,000; Full time

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Job summary

Government Recruitment Service in Leeds is seeking a Senior Finance Business Partner to lead the Financial Management & Partnering Directorate. You will provide leadership, professional, and evidence-based decision support, driving financial performance and strategic initiatives.

You will build trusted relationships with senior managers, deliver multi-year forecasts, and oversee a team delivering clear financial insight for the business. Hybrid working arrangements apply across the UK.

Qualifications

• Builds relationships with senior managers and stakeholders
• Provides strategic financial analysis to shape decisions
• Delivers current and multi-year forecasts with robust assumptions
• Communicates financial information clearly to non-financial audiences
• Leads a Finance Partner team and drives continuous improvement

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Finance Partner team to provide high-quality financial support
• Provide strategic, evidence-based advice on financial performance and risk
• Own major projects, policies and programmes with strong commercial focus
• Ensure governance, internal controls and data analytics are robust and timely
• Support workforce planning and financial information for decision making

Skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic financial insight

Forecasting & planning

Business partnering

Analytical thinking

Education

Fully qualified accountant

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Working towards sustainable futures. Championing diversity in the workplace. At the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), it’s all in a day’s work. FromHR to Finance, Policy to Communications, this is work that sustains and supports, where everyone’s voice is heard, and our customers are at the heart of everything we do. For a career packed with possibility, a comprehensive benefits package, where we live by our values and have the opportunity to improve the lives of people across the country, look no further.

Supporting people who need it most. That’s our purpose. Start your own career today.

Places for Growth and Social Mobility

As part of the Places for Growth Programme, we are committed to delivering a more geographically diverse Civil and Public Service that will better serve the public and ministers.

As part of this initiative, we are continuously reviewing how we recruit into each location.

The Financial Management & Partnering Directorate support the business to develop credible multi-year plans that deliver business objectives, supported by robust financial forecasts. We also work with the business to ensure that financial matters are considered in long-term policy and service delivery decisions.

Financial Management & Partnering are organised into teams supporting each of the DWP Director Generals. These vacancies are roles on the teams supporting the Digital and Transformation Group Director General, the Jobs and Careers Service Director General and the Policy Group Director.

This is a fantastic opportunity for fully qualified accountants to join the Financial Management and Partnering Directorate with a proven track record in finance, a passion for delivering high-quality professional services with the needs of our customers and stakeholders at its heart and a passion for making a significant impact to the lives of millions of people across Great Britain.

The Department is committed to providing services which embracediversityand which promote equality of opportunity. As an employer we are also committed to equality and valuing diversity within our workforce.

Senior Finance Business Partner

Company: Government Recruitment Service

Salary: £79,722 to £87,739 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: Leeds

Job type: Permanent

As a key member of the senior finance team, the Senior Finance Business Partner will provide leadership as well as professional, evidence-based decision-making support, challenge, and professional advice.

As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you will need to:

• Build and maintain key relationships, in particular developing trust and rapport. This includes managing the expectation of senior managers and stakeholders.
• Developing a good understanding of the business, seeking out opportunities to better understand the commercial and operational drivers
• Provide strategic advice and analysis on financial impact, performance and risk to senior stakeholders and through this contribute to the strategic direction of the wider business area. This includes supporting accurate current and multi-year financial forecasts and plans.
• Responsibility for providing timely, accurate and clearly communicated financial management information and analysis, making full use of available data and analytics tools, to support recommendations to drive efficiency and effectiveness through value added insight and advice.
• Working closely with leads on major projects, policies and programmes to ensure sound business cases are developed and monitored with strong commercial focus, options appraisal risk management, internal control and that governance procedures are followed.
• Lead a Business Partner team effectively to ensure effective support and advice to the business, effective engagement with other Finance teams, and opportunities for continual improvement are identified and pursued.
• Establish a positive and collegiate working environment, supporting and motivating team members to achieve their full potential.
• Become the Lead and/or SME for new Financial ERP system implementation for the team, covering workforce planning, project accounting, process/system design, testing and driving business change activities.
• Act as Senior Finance Lead for strategic workforce planning activities, providing financial insight and challenge to support departmental decision-making.
• Oversee refresh of demand forecasting biannually, ensuring accurate outputs are presented with financial assumptions for sign off.

Hybrid working

This role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work.

If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office.

These roles can only be worked in the UK.

If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert.

Working Pattern

DWP are committed to flexible working patterns, and keen to support alternative working patterns where business needs allow. The working hours we can support will depend on which role you are offered (if there is more than one role now or in the future) and if there is capacity to operate the role part-time or job share.

Visas

For these vacancies, we strongly recommend that applicants consult with an immigration specialist or qualified advisor to assess their eligibility for Visa Sponsorship before deciding to apply. Please note that while we consider sponsorship requests in accordance with current DWP guidance and Home Office policy, sponsorship cannot be guaranteed.

Locations

You will be asked for your preferences for up to 3 locations, these will tell us where you would prefer to work if you are successful. Please do not select a location unless you are prepared to accept a role in that location.

Please note that for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, Blackpool, Sheffield & London, these locations will be changing:

Newcastle Benton Park View will move to Newcastle Pilgrim Place in Autumn 2027

Sheffield Hartshead Square will start to move to Sheffield 1 West Bar by early 2028

Blackpool, Peel Park will move to Blackpool, Fylde View by April 2028

London Caxton House will move to London Sanctuary Buildings in Summer 2027

Please note London vacancies are only open to DWP staff currently working in either Caxton House or Buildings.

Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principleshere.

Successful candidates will be posted in merit order based on your location preferences, where appropriate, and the geographical requirements of the business. Dependent on your position on the merit list, if none of your location preferences remain at the point we make a job offer DWP may offer you a role at an alternative advertised location. If we are unable to offer you a role in any of your preferred locations, and you are unable to accept a role at an alternative advertised location, we will add you to the reserve list if one is being held.

Some travel may be required, but individuals’ circumstances will be taken into account.

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