Finance Business Partner

1 month ago

Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive Full time
Job Summary

As a key member of the Health and Safety Executive's Planning, Finance, and Procurement Division (PFPD), we are seeking a highly skilled Finance Business Partner to join our team. This exciting opportunity will allow you to play a pivotal role in driving the planning processes and ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of our strategic objectives.

The successful candidate will provide quality insight, challenge, and rigour across the organisation to deliver operational and corporate activity targets within accurate financial forecasts. You will work closely with divisional directors and stakeholders at senior executive level to build strong, trust-based relationships and drive high performance in line with strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Provide financial leadership on divisional business planning and budgeting, through continually improving a process that is fully integrated and links prioritisation, business planning, cost drivers, resource, cost recovery income.
  2. Develop new ways of working concentrating on reducing transactional activity and focussing on challenging the business robustly and adding value through insight.
  3. Support the ongoing development of the FBP team using consistent standards and processes whilst developing a resilience to ensure service delivery across all divisions.
  4. Lead the monthly forecasting process for the Divisions you support, challenging the forecast assumptions, and understanding the drivers of the forecasts together with the risks and opportunities.
  5. Work with divisions to understand their requirements and using best practice to remove wasted effort and duplication in processes including business cases, prioritisation, budgeting and forecasting.
  6. Coaching and supporting Assistant Finance Business Partners to deliver a high-quality service.
  7. Supporting activity-based costing, identifying the key cost drivers to ensure Fees and Charges are laid in Parliament.
Person Specification

The ideal candidate will have experience of delivering a business partnering service and adding value by providing insight to inform operational decisions. They will also have experience of successfully leading, managing, motivating and developing diverse teams (often virtually), with the ability to deliver through others, providing a clear direction with a persuasive future and driving high performance in line with strategic objectives.

The successful candidate will also have strong analytical skills leading to the ability to understand causal factors/financial drivers that create deviations from delivery plans and supporting budgets/forecasts together with the ability to create a strong and compelling narrative in influencing a case for change.

Benefits

As a member of the Health and Safety Executive, you will have access to a wide range of benefits, including a competitive salary, learning and development opportunities, and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity. You will also have access to a range of family-friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career.

We invest in our people with competitive rates of pay, access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme, and a range of other benefits including 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave.

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