Strategic Finance Director and Finance Director, Business Partnering

Details
Reference number

438647

Salary

£100,000 - £122,000

Standard Cabinet Office rules on pay will apply to civil servants appointed on level transfer or promotion. Their salary will increase to the minimum of the SCS PB2 range or by a promotion award of up to 10% more than their current basic salary excluding all allowances (whichever is the greater). Individuals appointed on level transfer will retain their existing basic salary excluding all allowances.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 2

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HO - Chief Operating Officer Group

Type of role

Finance

Senior leadership

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share

Number of jobs available

2

Contents

• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Location

London, with regular travel to Home Office locations.

About the job
Job summary

As Strategic Finance Director, you will provide strategic leadership for all aspects of financial management and planning across the Home Office. Reporting to the Director General, Chief Operating Officer, you will be responsible for ensuring that we deliver value for money and robust stewardship of public funds.

You will lead financial strategy, fiscal events, and engagement with HM Treasury, ensuring the department's financial plans are aligned with government priorities.

As Finance Director, Business Partnering you will act as the primary finance liaison for business units, supporting and challenging financial management across the organisation and driving value creation.

You will champion a high-performing finance function, fostering a culture of insight, challenge, and continuous improvement.

These posts both offer a unique opportunity to make a significant impact, helping to deliver the Home Office's vital mission and ensuring that public funds are used efficiently, transparently, and to maximum effect. Both roles will work closely with the Finance Director responsible for finance operations, ensuring seamless collaboration across strategic and operational finance to deliver robust stewardship and effective financial management throughout the department.

Job description

Key responsibilities include:

Both Job Holders will be expected to:

• Oversee financial planning, analysis, and reporting, providing high-quality insight and challenge to support evidence-based decision making.
• Ensure robust financial controls, compliance with Managing Public Money, and effective risk management.
• Build and lead a high-performing, inclusive finance team, promoting professional development and a collaborative culture.

In addition, each role will have the following responsibilities:

Strategic Finance Director

• Act as principal financial advisor to Ministers, the Principal Accounting Officer (Permanent Secretary), Executive Committee and senior leaders on all strategic financial matters, including resource allocation.
• Lead the development and delivery of the Home Office's financial strategy, ensuring alignment with departmental and government priorities.
• Lead engagement with HM Treasury and represent the department at cross-government finance forums.

Finance Director, Business Partnering

• Act as the primary finance liaison for Directors-General and business units across the organisation.
• Lead the Finance function's business partner model, fostering strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders within a complex, politically sensitive environment.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, systems, and business partnering, maximising the impact of finance across the department.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

The successful candidate for each role will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioural approach to a high standard against the following key criteria:

• Full CCAB, CIMA, or equivalent professional accountancy qualification.
• Substantial senior financial leadership experience in a large, complex, and customer-focused organisation.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop diverse teams, driving high performance and continuous improvement.
• Strong track record of strategic financial planning, analysis, and business partnering at executive level, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience operating in politically sensitive environments.
• Commitment to upholding public sector values, promoting inclusion, and delivering value for money.

Please see page 9 on the Recruitment Process for guidance on how you may express a preference for one or other post if you wish. The same essential criteria will be applied to both posts - the candidate that is ranked first in the merit order may be offered the opportunity to accept either post. The candidate that is second in the merit order would then be offered the other post.

Qualifications

Full CCAB, CIMA, or equivalent professional accountancy qualification.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £100,000, Home Office contributes £28,970 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know
Selection process details

Online Application: Please follow the Job Advert instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply online, no later than 23:55hrs on Sunday 14th December 2025.

If you have a preference for one of the two roles being advertised, please clearly state this at the beginning of your Statement of Suitability. You may still apply to be considered for both roles.

Provide some basic personal information;

• A CV - setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, including details where budgets and numbers of people managed, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years;
• A Statement of Suitability – (limited to 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.
• Diversity Monitoring - as part of the online application process, you will be asked a number of diversity-related questions. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the characteristics, you will have the option to select 'prefer not to say'. See the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy: 2022 to 2025 (HTML) - GOV.UK ) for more information.

It is essential that in your written application you give evidence, using examples, of proven experience. These responses will be developed and discussed with candidates invited for interview. Failure to submit both a CV and Supporting Statement will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

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

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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :

• Name : DG COO Group
• Email : dg-

Recruitment team

• Email :

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint you should contact in the first instance.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Home Office you can then contact the Civil Service Commission. Civil Service Commission, Room G8, 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ.

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