Finance Business Partner

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

- 345643**Salary**:

- £57,000 - £67,100- National: £57,000 min-£62,700 max. London: £61,000 min-£67,100 max.**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Delivery - Finance Directorate**Type of role**:

- Finance**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 4Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Croydon Estate; London - 2 Marsham Street (2MS); Liverpool - The Capital; Manchester - Soapworks; Sheffield - Foundry House; Stoke-on-Trent - Smithfield TwoAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair, and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports. Every day, our teams across the UK and beyond deliver outcomes to improve citizens’ lives. Our work is challenging, high profile and rewarding.

The Finance Directorate is one of the most dynamic and forward-looking places to work. We provide professional finance advice and challenge which ensures that the Home Office delivers value for money to the taxpayer and protects the Accounting Officers in their responsibilities for regularity, propriety, value for money and feasibility on all spending decisions.

We value every person who works in the Finance Directorate and offer opportunities for our staff to develop whether through formal training, on the job development or lateral moves to develop new skills. We support staff who wish to achieve a finance qualification with paid study leave and exam support.

The Home Office Finance group is dedicated to promoting equality and valuing diversity. We are committed to ensuring that every talented and hard-working person can rise to the top, whatever their background and whoever they are.

**Job description**:
As part of Illegal Migration Act (IMA), capability is being expanded significantly. This all requires additional financial support, critical observation and reporting and so a dedicated resource is now needed.

We have exciting opportunities for finance professionals to join our team in financial operations, and we will hold a reserve list should any further roles at Grade 7 become available.

The roles currently available include:

- **Programme Finance Business Partner**

This role is at the heart of financial decision making, working as part of the collaborative business partnering teams for the Migration & Borders System on Illegal Migration measures. The team is responsible for ensuring finance is included in operational decision making across key Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) programmes and other investment programmes and projects across Home Office. The post holder will act as a strategic partner to a programme offering financial expertise and guidance to ensure that the programme teams deliver against plans, objectives, and outcomes.
- **Finance Business Partner (FBP)**

The FBP team play a key role in the financial business planning and in-year financial monitoring and forecasting of budgets. They provide strategic support and challenge to business areas to ensure that decisions are made with reference to financial information and consequences.

Other roles may also become available, and you will be asked for your preference if you are invited to interview. We will also be able to provide more information on each of the current roles at that stage.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Build and maintain effective key stakeholder relationships.
- Communicate and present financial information to a non-financial audience.
- Collate iterations of costings for HM Treasury on the IMA in order to secure funding.
- Identify, assess and track benefits.
- Prepare and present regular financial reports to stakeholders to support decision making and strategic planning.
- Identify opportunities for improvement in financial management working collaboratively with the finance team to enhance tools and processes.
- Present benchmarks, comparators, and economic context to support and influence key operational and strategic decisions of the group.
- Advise on key business planning assumptions, trade-offs, and opportunities.
- Provide advice to help resolve competing priorities within the Directorate / Group.
- Provide challenge to the business unit to test assumptions and risks.
- Provide ad hoc analysis and insights on specific issues, using resources provided from the management accounting function.
- Identify financial risks, monitor risk, and propose mitigating actions.
- Operate effectively within the Home Office’s system of financial control and regular planning and reporting cycles.
- Foster a culture of finance excellence including standing up for ethical principles and protecting the Accounting Officer.

Note: The post holder may be required to carry out other duties within the scope of the grade and within the li