London Borough of Waltham Forest
**INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY** Finance Business Partner - Adults
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Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest
Salary:
PO10 £68,784 - £72,399
Contract Type:
Full-time/ Permanent
Working hours per week:
36
Application Deadline:
30/10/2026
Proposed Interview Date(s):
TBC
Reference:
2349
INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
About Us:
Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.
London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment.
About the role:
Finance Business Partners provide strategic financial advice and support to service areas, working closely with senior managers to influence decision-making, budget planning and service delivery. They provide financial analysis, challenge and insight to support effective resource management, identify risks and opportunities, and help deliver the Council’s priorities.
The successful candidate will combine strong technical accounting skills with strategic thinking, commercial awareness and the ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders across the organisation.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Head of Finance in revenue and capital budget setting, financial planning, forecasting and medium-term financial strategy (MTFS) activities.
- Providing an effective Business Partnering function to the organisation and contributing to the development of the policies, activities and service improvements required to deliver the function.
- First and foremost, acting as a critical friend to the service area for which they are responsible.
- Providing advice and support which demonstrates depth of knowledge, expertise and customer focus and being responsible for the provision of revenue monitoring, capital monitoring, budget setting (revenue and capital), Medium Term Financial Strategy (MTFS) setting, and closure of accounts.
- Managing financial services for the assigned service and providing oversight of operational budgets, providing support and healthy challenge as appropriate.
- Formulating financial policies and strategies, and reporting to senior management and stakeholders.
- Ensuring integrity of financial information and compliance with audit requirements.
- Leading operational budget streams, budget forecasting, risk management, and resource allocation.
- Managing financial targets, departmental business programmes, and performance reporting.
- Ensuring that financial information is assigned and balanced and is received by decision-takers at the appropriate level.
- Ensuring that financial data analytics are used where appropriate to better inform budget monitoring and longer-term financial planning.
- Working with services to ensure the accuracy of information input to systems and proper responses to system outputs.
- Collaborating with the relevant service to become a trusted adviser and developing and maintaining a detailed understanding of the service area being supported.
- Continually reviewing, updating and reporting on quantified financial risks and opportunities in the relevant service area, and advising on how the risks can be mitigated and the opportunities exploited.
- Assisting with the efficient and timely completion of specific tasks within the annual closing of accounts processes and ensuring that information presented in the financial statements complies with the CIPFA Code of Practice and reporting standards.
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Qualifications and Requirements:
- Fully qualified accountant (CIPFA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or part qualified with a demonstrable plan to achieve full qualification within 9 months.
- Evidence of post-qualification continuing professional development
Terms and conditions:
The below terms and conditions apply to this role:
- Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
- Satisfactory declaration of interest;
- Satisfactory DBS check;
- Continued professional body registration;
- As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.
We are a Home Office–licensed sponsor; however, for this specific role we are not able to provide Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. To be considered, you must already hold a form of UK work authorisation that does not require sponsorship.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Shehwar Sultan, Head of Finance Business Partner Adults & Health at shehwar.sultan@walthamforest.gov.uk
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Equal Opportunity Employer:
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives:
- Promoting equality of opportunity
- Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage
- Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels.
- Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.
For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.
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