HM Revenue & Customs
Finance Business Partner
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Salary and Benefits
Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
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HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV including your job history, Qualifications and previous experiences.
- A 1000-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the Essential Criteria and Person Specification outlined in the advert. Please evidence any Desirable Criteria where applicable, (up to 250 words max). This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy holder where candidates have the same score at interview.
Selection Process
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Online Tests
After submission of the first stage of your application, you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Verbal Test and a Civil Service Numerical Test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.
Sift
In the event of a large number of applications being received, an initial sift may be held on your Personal Statement. At full sift your CV and your Personal Statement, will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
Interview
During the panel interview, you will be asked a Technical Question relating to the key responsibilities listed in the advert. You will also be asked behaviour-based questions to explore in detail what you are capable of.
Interviews will take place via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Contact Point for Applicants
Job Contact
- Name: Josie Mulhern
- Email: josie.mulhern@hmrc.gov.uk
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