Finance Business Partner

Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills

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Reference number

374240

Salary

£64,249
£63,612 per annum. Rising to £64,249 per annum on successful completion of probation. The post holder will be eligible for £4,000 per annum accountancy allowance; this is a non-contractual allowance and payable upon receipt of your qualification.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Grade 7
Band A APT

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

OFSTED - Finance, Property and Commercial

Type of role

Finance
Other

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

2

Contents

Piccadilly Gate, Manchester

Job summary

We are recruiting for two Finance Business Partner to join our Finance team. 

Reporting into the Senior Finance Business Partner, the Finance Business Partner (FBP) has portfolio responsibility for a number of Directors and Deputy Directors who they will support on all finance related matters.

Acting as the ‘gateway’ between the Finance Division and the business the FBP requires a strategic and detailed understanding of the Directorates they support. The FBP maintains trusted relationships with the senior leaders to ensure Finance delivers a timely, high-quality and value-added service to the business, helping the Directorates to deliver their corporate objectives in the most efficient way.

The FBP has overall responsibility for delivering their key accountabilities on time and to a standard that meets the customers’ needs and will lead a Management Accounts team in delivering regular financial reporting. The FBP also works in collaboration with other FBPs and the Financial Accounting, Operations and Systems team to develop and maintain a good understanding of the crosscutting activities of the whole of Ofsted.

This is a fantastic opportunity to further your experience in Ofsted’s well-established team. The post holder will work with high-achieving professionals at all levels, surrounded by a friendly and supportive team. They will have access to amazing benefits, such as flexible working hours, the Civil Service Pension Scheme, and 32.5 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays. We offer a hybrid working model, so you may also choose to spend a proportion of time working from home.

Job description

Please refer to the job specification for further information.

Person specification

Please refer to the job specification for further information.

Qualifications

CCAB qualified accountant (or CIMA or equivalent) with significant post qualification experience.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Seeing the Big Picture
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Demonstrable experience in a similar financial role with a focus on business partnering and management accounting.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to identify underlying causes and financial drivers that create deviations from plans and the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insight to support decision making for non-technical audiences.
  • Build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders including directors and senior leaders – demonstrating the communication skills, impact and gravitas to effectively collaborate, challenge assumptions and influence decisions.
  • Experience of successful application of leadership and management skills, including leading and managing change and advising senior leaders on complex financial issues.
Alongside your salary of £64,249, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills contributes £18,612 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Full details of the benefits available can be found in our Ofsted Offer brochure.

Ofsted is devoted to equality, diversity and inclusion. Within our Ofsted Strategy 2023-2027 we have stated that we will improve the representation of under-represented groups across the organisation and publish our progress on this annually. We are always looking to expand on our diverse workforce by recruiting candidates from varied backgrounds and differing experiences. We are proud to be a Disability Confident – Leader, we continually engage with our 5 staff networks for protected characteristics, and highlight the work of our Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Group. We ensure all candidates are treated with fair and open competition, with all appointments being made on merit and we use our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) to provide assurance to all candidates of this.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Application and Shortlisting:

The selection panel will assess your application based on your evidence you have provided against the essential criteria as set out in the person specification.

You will also be asked to provide information within the “Employer/Activity History” section of the application form. This information is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV setting out your career history (this may be used in the sifting process).

Assessment and Interview

Candidates who pass the benchmark at the shortlisting stage will be invited to an assessment and interview where they will be assessed against a mixture of the Civil Service behaviours and the experience/technical skills set out in section 3 of the job specification.

Assessment and interviews will be held during the week commencing Monday 25 November 2024 and/or week commencing Monday 2 December 2024 at Piccadilly Gate, Manchester.



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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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) (opens in a new window)
  • 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 (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) 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 (opens in a new window).
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 (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Talent and Resourcing Team
  • Email : Jobs@ofsted.gov.uk
  • Telephone : 03000 131 487

Recruitment team

  • Email : Jobs@ofsted.gov.uk

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 email Ofsted recruitment at jobs@ofsted.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recrutiment

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