Finance Business Partner

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

- 266889**Salary**:

- £41,782 - £48,566- National £41,782 - £44,932 London £45,170 - £48,566**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HMRC - CFO Group - Other - Finance**Type of role**:

- Finance**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- Benton Park View, Newcastle on Tyne, NE98 1ZZ - Nottingham Government Hub, 1 Unity Square, Nottingham, NG2 1AW - 100 Parliament Street, Westminster, London SW1A 2BQAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Corporate Finance fulfils a vital role at the heart of HMRC. We are responsible for ensuring that HMRC plans and manages its performance, makes good decisions, and is held to account on accurate financial and performance data. Our activity helps HMRC account excellently for everything it does.

The Finance Business Partner branch is part of the Chief Finance Officer Corporate Support team, a team of over 80 people working across the UK to support HMRC’s CFO Group, with finance, planning, performance, business partnering, risk, and analytical services. HMRC’s CFO group employs over 2,000 staff working to provide the financial processes, estate services, assurance and control to enable HMRC to perform at its best. You’ll be part of a small team of business partners, and report to a Grade 7 Finance Business Partner. The core of the role is providing HMRC customers with a full finance service that meets both current and future needs.

**Job description**:
At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.

You will be a key member of the Finance Business Partner team and your customer area’s Senior Leadership Team contributing to business decision-making, advising on a variety of financial issues (such as budgeting and savings options) and related areas (workforce planning and risk). You will be responsible for the delivery of excellent customer service and driving performance up across your business area, as HMRC continues to undergo a period of transformational change.

Your core responsibility will be as a business partner and a key member of our Estates Directorate finance team. You will be lead business partner for several major customers within Estates Workplace and Policies, covering and annual budget of over £100m. You will be responsible for ensuring the directors and their teams understand their financial and workforce resources, providing advice, and challenge to ensure they are able to meet their wider objectives while ensuring value for money and good financial management across the directorate.

**Person specification**:
**As a business partner the tasks you will be doing include**:

- Active member of business areas’ Senior Leadership Teams
- Provide constructive challenge to business plans and investment proposals
- Providing technical financial advice and support to the SLTs in the management of their delegated annual budgets
- Monitor performance against plan and actively manage risks and opportunities against the latest financial forecasts
- Accurate financial reporting and provision of appropriate management information
- Understanding of and responsibility for a strong control environment and risk management within business areas
- Monitoring efficiencies and change programmes, including investigating and challenging where efficiencies targets are not met
- Building strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders to facilitate the delivery of Finance Director and SLT objectives
- Successful delivery of any ad hoc exercises assigned by the Finance Director
- Provide appropriate and timely escalations to G7 and Finance Director to resolve issues effectively, minimising business and operational risk.
- Support G7 with business partner activities and cross-cutting tasks to support CFO and CFO Corporate Support
- Minimum of 2 years Finance Function experience with a good understanding of financial practices and processes
- Willing to study for full qualification and membership of CIMA or CCAB
- Understanding of financial practices and processes
- Ability to work with, understand, and summarise large data sets
- Good relationship management skills and personal credibility with stakeholders
- A strong customer service ethos
- Able to build strong relationships with customers
- Results orientated and committed to delivery of VfM
- Adaptable working style able to balance competing, sometimes urgent or ad hoc, priorities with each other
- Part qualified CIMA or CCAB
- Experience of working with