Finance Business Partner in Huntingdon

The Finance Service in Cambridgeshire is focused on stewardship of funds on behalf of local taxpayers and promoting value for money across the County Council. We are a diverse team of finance professionals which is highly regarded across the organisation. We are looking to recruit up to two Finance Business Partner roles offered as either a fixed term contract or internal secondment for a 15-month period. One role will primarily provide advice and challenge to the County Council’s Children, Education & Families (CEF) directorate. CEF provides services to support vulnerable children, their families and education services, spending over £275m annually.

A second role arises in our corporate finance team where priorities include production of the County Council’s statutory financial accounts and responding to external audit, monitoring and expenditure governance for our assets and investment programme and accountancy and funding implications of local government reorganisation. The successful candidate(s) will support a range of activities, such as business partnering a portfolio of services or contribute to projects that deliver local and national change programmes such as SEND reforms, audit recovery and local government reorganisation. Interviews are likely to take place in the weeks commencing 11th / 18th May 2026.

You will be responsible for providing finance business partnering support to a portfolio of council services, and being the business partner to several heads of service and budget managers. This will include managing finance support to services through the whole financial cycle, from medium-term financial planning and budget setting, to in-year financial monitoring, to accounts production.

We are looking to appoint a committed and self-motivated finance professional to bring energy and expertise to this role. As well as strong technical skills, you will be able to build relationships with heads of service and budget managers to support the council in delivering its ambitions. You will be a fully or part-qualified accountant or AAT qualified, able to build effective relationships and to pro-actively manage a varying workload that requires input from a range of peers and customers. Experience of working within local government would be very useful, but any finance professional working at, or aspiring to work at, this level is welcome to apply.

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.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

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. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy.

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