Finance Business Partner in Manchester

Location

Leeds Regional Centre - Wellington Place, Manchester Regional Centre - Three New Bailey, Newcastle Upon Tyne - Benton Park View, Telford - Plaza 1 and 2

Please note that due to workforce controls, Newcastle is only available to existing HMRC staff in this location.

About the job

Job summary

Sitting within the Financial Management Division within the CDIO Strategic Services Division, this role is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, proactive finance professional, who enjoys working in a dynamic and challenging environment, to both deliver exceptional finance service and to lead and influence organisational change through strong financial management.

Job description

Finance Business Partners are our business experts. They couple financial acumen and expertise with strong interpersonal relationship and influencing skills. They understand the business and can translate and present complex financial information in clear and concise ways for a variety of audiences, often more senior to themselves.

They provide valuable financial advice, challenge and strategic insight to budget holders and senior decision-makers to drive value for money outcomes. They have the desire and ability to take on large and complex delivery areas to help them navigate high-profile and often financially challenging environments.

Person specification

Key Responsibilities

• Providing specialist financial advice – engaging with IT experts and providing advice on key financial planning, processes, and budget setting.
• Taking responsibility for providing financial information to the business with clear advice and recommendations, using all available data and analytics tools.
• Supporting the development and implementation of credible financial plans that are consistent with HMRCs strategic direction, performance and delivery plans.
• Attending and influencing senior leader boards and committees, providing robust challenge that considers the wider financial position of both the CDIO Group and HMRC.
• Involved at the start of the idea pipeline, engaging early in solution development and supporting the creation and approval of business cases through strong financial insight throughout the process.
• Driving evidence-based decisions through challenging and supporting the business to enhance decision-making,
• Providing coaching and feedback proactively to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business and finance colleagues and increasing performance through informed and objective advice.
• Horizon scanning to identify potential issues and helping CDIO directorates develop financially viable solutions.
• Management of team members and/or oversight of others work and developing leadership skills within and across teams.
• Driving cultural change to improve SSD leadership by role-modelling behaviours that inspire, motivate, empower, support, celebrate successes and tackle inappropriate behaviour/ poor performance.
• Influencing and driving cultural change to improve financial information, innovation, processes, systems, assurance and financial capability.

Working collaboratively and building strong relationships with the HMRC Transformation Portfolio, Programme and Finance community, to influence and drive finance effective change.

Essential Criteria

• CCAB (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent fully qualified chartered accountant.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insight to support analysis and decision making.
• Excellent IT/Excel, oral and written skills.
• Proven experience of working in a large and complex organisation.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to support wider business stakeholders.
• Confident communicator, comfortable with robustly challenging senior business leaders and decision-makers.
• Ability to work in a culture of change, to think strategically and work comfortably with risk.

Desirable Criteria

• Understanding of ERP systems.
• Previous experience of working within or supporting an IT organisation from a finance perspective.
• Previous experience of working within a public sector or not-for-profit organisation's finance team.

Further Location Information

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a ‘Further Location Preferences (optional)’ field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.

Office Closures

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Leeds Location

Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.

Qualifications

CCAB Fully Qualified Chartered Accountant with CIMA,
ACCA CIPFA,
ACA or equivalent UK professional body.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Technical Skills question relating to the key responsibilities listed in the advert.

For more information and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button below.

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