Finance Business Partner

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

- 242775**Salary**:

- £40,514 - £47,007- Salary will be dependent on skills and experience.**Grade**:

- Grade 7- Dstl level 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DSTL - Finance, Governance & Planning Division - Finance Team**Type of role**:

- Accountancy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Compressed Hours**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Dstl Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 8FUAbout the job

**Summary**:

- Our Finance team delivers essential expertise to an organisation which delivers vital Science and Technology research and advice to Government Defence and Security. If you are qualified, experienced and are looking to join our high performing and well-motivated team then we want to hear from you.
- You will be a qualified and dedicated finance professional with experience of working with non-finance colleagues to steer and influence the business and drive and implement improvements to the way we work and the value we bring to the business.
- You will ensure the Division Head, and their management team, have the appropriate financial information and support to enable decision-making in order to expertly conduct their roles. You will provide financial direction and mentorship for planning and implementation of the divisions’ activities and support continuous improvement. You will also be the task manager for a local finance team.
- We can offer you a modern working environment, interesting work and an opportunity to make a real difference to the role of finance in a business which is vital to the future Defence and Security needs of the nation.
- Our Finance team has in the past, won the Ministry of Defence team of the year and now we're ready to build on this success as our organisation moves into an exciting new phase.
- Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution.**We particularly welcome female and ethnic minority applicants and those from the LGBTQI community, as they are under-represented within Dstl at these levels.**

**Job description**:
**The Business Partner role is flexible and diverse meaning you could be involved in a variety of activities.**

**These are some of the key areas you’ll be focusing on**:

- Providing professional contribution on behalf of the finance function to one or more directorates that is timely, accurate and adds value, ensuring that strategic intent is maintained.
- Enabling informed and effective financial and business decision-making by ensuring that financial support provided by yourself and management accounting team is timely, accessible and of good quality.
- Continuously improving service delivery through feedback from our customers.
- Providing support in the preparation of budgets and forecasts including authoritative financial advice on the impacts of changing requirements and targets.
- Delivering required financial and other management information to corporate centre in line with published timetables and ad hoc requirements.
- Building and maintaining relationships with internal and external customers and partners.
- Providing quality oversight and assurance of financial information, actively encouraging innovation and improvement both within the finance community and with wider influence.
- Identifying and support improvements to business processes, considering organisation effectiveness and not just short term savings.
- Improve financial awareness of Senior Management, leadership roles and project managers within Dstl and MOD.
- Ensuring knowledge flow through the organisation and to ensure professional finance discipline.
- Deliver appropriate awareness training to non-finance staff in key leadership and management roles.
- Maintain an effective, engaged, motivated and balanced team.
- Ensuring the finance team maintains its objectivity, impartiality, independence and integrity in adhering to professional code of ethics, applicable accounting and reporting standards and other corporate policy/guidelines.

**For more information on the Job Role, please see the Job Profile attached below.**

**Responsibilities**:
**We are looking for someone who can**:

- The ability to influence the strategic direction and decisions of our divisional leadership community;
- Confidence and skills to provide line management, technical and professional leadership to the finance members in their team;
- Enthusiasm for working with colleagues from other disciplines to support and advise local business unit management teams;
- The power to effectively communicate and present financial issues, impacts and opportunities to your area of the business.

**For more information on the Job Role, please see the J