Finance Business Partner
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
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About the job
Job summary
Dstl's 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 want 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 deftly 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 line manager for a local finance team.
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.
Job description
In this role you will:
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.
For more information on the role responsibilities please see the job profile attached below.
Safety:
- You must appreciate and be responsible for the health and safety of yourself and others;
- You will pro-actively support the development of safe working practices, champion their use with others, and promote the welfare of self and others;
- You will share best practise and report any unsafe practises to support and enable a learning culture. You are empowered to stop work where you feel it is unsafe.
Person specification
Experience
Essential:
A career path that can demonstrate effective delivery of:
- A track record in leading, ownership and delivery of successful management accounting;
- Complex financial analysis and preparation of budgets and forecasts;
- Understanding the financial and commercial risks of the business;
- Influencing without line management authority and building strong relationships with senior colleagues;
- Pricing structures and a good understanding of Microsoft Excel;
- Undertaking financial analysis quickly and accurately;
- Working to tight deadlines;
- Investment appraisal expertise;
- Understanding current reporting/presentation tools and techniques.
Work location:
Dstl is strongly encouraging blended and flexible working either at one of our sites or from home or both. We want to empower you to undertake your duties at the most appropriate location for the task, however you will be allocated a Dstl site as a base. You may be required to travel to other Dstl and MoD sites as required.
Important Information:
Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be UK Nationals who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to undertake the projects we are involved in to protect us from security threats. For this reason, only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.
This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years. For some roles Developed Vetting will also be required, in this case you should have resided in the UK for the past 10 years.
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Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
Benefits
Benefits
Dstl’s full range of great benefits can be found in the information pack which includes:
Financial: An excellent pension scheme starting from 26% employer contribution (find out more here). In Year Rewarding Achievement bonuses and thank you vouchers. Rental deposit scheme and cycle to work scheme.
Flexible working: Options include alternative working patterns such as; compressed hours (e.g. working a 4 day week/ 9 day fortnight), job shares and annualised hours (agreed number of hours per annum paid monthly i.e. working term-time only).
Working hours: Flexibility around your working day (e.g. start time, finish time). Ability to bank hours in a 12 month reference period including the ability to accrue and use 3 days per calendar month.
Where you work: Depending on your role, blended working may be available including remote working to suit you and your team. This can be discussed at interview.
Annual leave: 25 days pro rata (rising to 30 after 5 years) plus 8 public holidays with the ability to buy/sell 5 additional days per annum.
Family: Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks with full pay, an additional 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid
Learning and Development: Dstl encourages and supports charterships, accreditations and provides employees access to fully funded apprenticeships up to level 7 (Masters Degree). Dstl will pay for 2 memberships with relevant bodies/institutions. Employees also have access to Civil Service Learning.
Facilities: Onsite parking, EV Charging points, restaurants, cafés and gyms.
- Alongside your salary Defence Science and Technology Laboratory contributes a minimum of £13,601 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
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Selection process details
We want you to have your best chance of success in our recruitment process, so If at any stage of the application process you would like help or assistance please contact the Dstl Recruitment Team dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk and we will do all we can to support you.
Sifting will be taking place week commencing 21st October 2024 with successful applicants being invited to attend either an online interview via MS Teams or a face to face interview at Dstl Porton Down week commencing 4th November
The interview will consist of a combined Behavioural and Technical interview
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Nationality requirements
This job is not open to candidates who hold a dual nationality.
Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Dstl Recruitment
- Email : dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk
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- Email : dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk
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