Senior Finance Business Partner

2 weeks ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom UK Civil Service Full time

Job summary

Would you like to be a Senior Finance Business Partner? Do you enjoy strategic and tactical decision making? Do you like to influence, negotiate and work collaboratively to promote innovation?

Job Summary

The role is to work closely with CCS Directorates creating a real and active partnership with both commercial and non-commercial Directorates� and financial management.�

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The role will provide 'real time' support and analysis, to be a trusted adviser and to add value that will assist in decision making in an efficient simple manner to improve the accuracy, consistency and transparency of commercial delivery, reporting and forecasting.

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We are recruiting to two posts within the Finance Planning and Performance team. One post will be more commercial focused whereas the other will be more project focused. Both roles will be assigned areas of the business to suppose as Senior Finance Business Partner.

The Finance, Planning and Performance Directorate

As a directorate, FPP are responsible for the planning, reporting and financial wellbeing of CCS. This includes:

budgets and financial reporting

strategy and business planning

supplier and project assurance

performance reporting

risk management


The Finance team develop and manage all financial reporting. We work closely with different departments to develop budgets, projections and business plans related to money and finances.


The Planning Performance and Risk team develops our business plan, tracks its implementation, measures business success and holds the business to account. The team is responsible for increasing the management capability of corporate risk through review and assurance.

Team Summary

These fantastic opportunities sit in the Finance Planning and Performance (FPP) Directorate and provide both commercial, projects and general finance advice, support and challenge to all Directorates across CCS.

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Our team really makes a difference ensuring financial governance, control and alignment is maintained and delivery plans are affordable, regular,�proper and represent value for money. The team protects, drives and adds value, ensuring that the Accounting Officer position is protected with balanced commercial and professional reporting.

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The Finance team of c30 FTE covers three main areas: Operational Finance, Finance Business Partnering (FBP) and Commercial Finance.� One of the roles sits in the FBP team and the second sits in Operational Finance with a dotted line to the FBP team. The second role also has line management responsibility for two individuals.

Job description

Work with commercial (post 1 only) and non-commercial colleagues and finance professionals to measure and analyse business performance.

Collaborate with colleagues across governance functions to drive the project finance function forward and lead a small project finance team� (post 2 only)

Ensure the requirements of the financial processes are met through the Commercial Directorate and assigned non-commercial Directorates

Work across stakeholders of the financial planning and forecasting processes to ensure user needs are met and consistency and transparency embedded

Facilitate discussions around business performance and risks and opportunities

Utilise Workday, Adaptive Planning and other data tools in an efficient�manner to support the transfer of business information across CCS

Develop and implement reporting and forecasting processes and templates aligned to financial requirements

Support, advise and challenge on Business Cases, including commercial, project investment and partnerships, particularly on any financial aspects

Convey complex financial reports, processes and information in a simple manner

Be able to calculate and understand commercial benefits and the quantification of value generated by procurement activities.

Ensure Business stakeholders are trained in required financial systems.

Person specification

Essential Criteria (To be assessed at application stage):

Strong technical finance and accounting system skills�

Experience of understanding, managing and analysing complex� financial processes

Experience of working effectively with multiple stakeholders with varying levels of financial knowledge

Demonstrates a clear understanding of Project techniques and business cases

Qualified or part-qualified Accountant, or a willingness to� work towards a professional accounting qualification

Desirable criteria�

Commercial and procurement knowledge or experience of supporting these areas

In the event of a high number of applications, the desirable criteria will be used as a second sift.

Behaviours

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

Seeing the Big PictureCommunicating and InfluencingWorking TogetherMaking Effective Decisions

Technical skills

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

Business Case Assessment

Benefits

Alongside your salary of �56,031, Crown Commercial Service contributes �15,632 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:

Competitive salary�

Generous pension scheme

A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus�

Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location

Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)

Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

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Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our

At CCS, we actively support, promote and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the and the

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Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.

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