Senior Finance Business Partner

The Finance Service at Cambridgeshire County Council plays a pivotal role in safeguarding public funds and ensuring value for money for local taxpayers. We are a diverse, well-regarded team at the heart of organisational decision-making, supporting leaders across the Council with high-quality financial insight and stewardship.

With local government reorganisation underway in Cambridgeshire, we are entering a period of significant change. This brings both challenges and opportunities, and we are strengthening our team to provide the focus and capacity needed to support this transformation.

You will lead a portfolio of strategic and high-impact work, including:

• Driving the Council's corporate financial business planning process, ensuring funding assumptions and proposed budget changes are robust and evidence-based
• Integrating revenue, capital and treasury planning into a unified and co-ordinated financial planning process
• Leading the financial input into local government reorganisation, including budgeting, funding analysis, and contributing to the finance workstream of the LGR programme
• Managing and developing the Council's finance apprenticeship scheme, building on more than 25 years of successful professional development
• Working closely with the Head of Finance and other senior colleagues, contributing to a varied and stimulating workload with opportunities to develop new skills and shape the future of the service

We are seeking a committed and self-motivated finance professional who can bring both energy and expertise to this role. Alongside strong technical skills, you will be able to build constructive relationships across the Finance Service and the wider Council, supporting a robust business planning process and helping to deliver the financial elements of local government reorganisation.

You will be a fully qualified accountant, or otherwise qualified by experience, with the confidence to work proactively, manage a varied workload, and collaborate effectively with peers and senior stakeholders. Experience within a local authority environment would be an advantage, but we welcome applications from finance professionals with transferable skills who are operating at, or aspiring to operate at, this level.

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage:

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes. Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager to discuss any adjustment needs.