Senior Finance Business Partner in Bristol

Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Swansea

Salary: £57,515 per annum. This role attracts a recruitment and retention allowance of £4,000 per annum.

Vacancy Type: Permanent

Closing date: Tuesday 31st March 2026

Are you confident in leading others? Do you enjoy the challenge of influencing others to achieve business outcomes? Would you love to drive continuous improvement in your role? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

The Senior Finance Business Partner is a trusted advisor to the business and is expected to have strong interpersonal skills, capable of translating and presenting complex financial information clearly. You will provide valuable financial advice, strategic insights, and business solutions to directors and other budget holders.

You will support DVSA to deliver assurance on the financial position and performance of the Service/Business so that effective action is taken on a timely basis. This role will help ensure high quality financial management is embedded throughout the business and that regular, robust, timely financial information and insight is provided to key stakeholders to enable quality decision-making.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• You will be a trusted advisor to the business and develop significant business expertise.
• You will build and maintain key relationships with internal and external stakeholders, manage senior managers' and stakeholders' expectations, and develop a deep understanding of the business's commercial and operational drivers.
• You will carry out sufficient analysis and challenge to demonstrate Business and Medium-Term plans are affordable within Spending Review totals, are central case estimates and represent value for money.
• You will provide strategic insight through your deep understanding of the financial data and the external/internal factors that influence the drivers of cost/income.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Required experience: To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Leadership, and the ability to motivate and develop a diverse finance team and promote excellence.
• Ability to influence at all levels of the business, using logical persuasion and consensus building within groups.
• A confident communicator, comfortable with advising and challenging senior stakeholders, including communicating complex financial issues into layman’s terms for non-specialist audiences.
• Highly proficient in using and interpreting data and analytics to support analysis and decision making, identifying gaps in data and reporting, and collaborating with colleagues to develop additional reporting as required.

You will be required to provide evidence that you hold any essential qualifications at some point during the recruitment process. If you cannot provide evidence, your application will be withdrawn.

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for DVSA, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.