Finance Business Partner

4 days ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 291255**Salary**:

- £49,403 - £61,392-
**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DEFRA - COO - Finance - Defra Group Finance**Type of role**:

- Accountancy
- Finance**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Leeds, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Peterborough, Reading, Warrington, Worcester, Worthing, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
About the job:

- DEFRA is the UK government department responsible for safeguarding our natural environment, supporting our world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy. Our broad remit means we play a major role in people's day-to-day life, from the food we eat, and the air we breathe, to the water we drink.
- As a Finance Business Partner your role is to protect value, drive value and add value. You will support the business area and its leadership team in managing their financial position and implementing their savings, make robust investment decisions and implement their action plans.
- This role will lead a team supporting many hundreds of business cases as well as personally business partnering a significant suite of major projects.
- This role will involve collaborating with colleagues from across Defra Group Finance and the business areas to deliver successful outcomes. You will also assist in providing insightful financial analysis and establishing a robust challenge to inform decision making and business planning.
- You will act as the face of Finance to ensure that finance is at the heart of commercial decision making, engaging suppliers in holding to account and securing benefits. As a critical friend to the business, you will ensure stewardship of public funds, efficient and effective use of budgets and play a key role in transformational change. You will provide advice on Directorate budgets, improve forecasting capability of project managers, and protect the Accounting Officer’s interest as outline in Managing Public Money.

**Job description**:
Key responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

- Leading a team of SEO Business Partners who use a variety of skills and techniques, encouraging and motivating the team to deliver at pace and to a high standard to support many hundreds of business cases.
- Provide financial scrutiny of investment proposals including support to Project assurance groups.
- Provide business partnering support to a range of projects >£3M totalling more than £1bn.
- Build and sustain a reputation amongst senior stakeholders as an indispensable, high-quality source of expertise on strategic business affairs.
- Provide financial input to strategy development from the outset, supporting and advising as part of the decision-making process.
- Support customers with financial planning and budgeting, ensuring they are as prepared as possible for the future requirements, for example Spending Reviews.
- Challenge and support the business to enhance decision-making and increase performance.
- Ensuring input to key finance activities is timely, accurate and that relevant interim and end year information is provided.
- Build strong relationships with colleagues from across Finance and the wider Department to provide a joined-up service.
- Support key portfolios of work. This could be functional based such as key projects, programmes or for cross cutting Finance services.
- Provide expert finance advice and resolving queries from stakeholders (NAO, HMT, Cabinet Office, and external delivery partners).
- Monitor and provide advice on compliance with financial policy and accountabilities as outlined in Managing Public Money, ensuring appropriate financial controls are in place.
- Play a key role in shaping the finance service by leading improvement projects.
- Work with all stakeholders to develop enhanced reporting via Qlik and live capital reporting solutions.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Experience and Skills**
- A strong track record of managing others.
- Proven ability to work with senior financial and non-financial colleagues to deliver improved performance and value for money.
- Strong relationship management and influencing skills and personal credibility with stakeholders.
- Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to present information clearly to senior audiences to enable decision making.
- Ability to assess a business areas’ financial situation and its implications and advise on strategies and provide insight to enhance decision making.
- Excellent analytical, data management and modelling skills and the capacity to get senior leadership to focus on critical issues.
- Developing proposals and assessing investment proposals, options and identifying risks.
- Delivering quality outcomes within tig

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