Finance Business Partner
HM Revenue and Customs
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 14th October 2024
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HMRC is made up of Business Groups, which work independently towards one common goal. Our role sits within HMRC’s Chief Digital & Information Office (CDIO) Group, which delivers in-house solutions for a broad range of technical and operational services. CDIO is HMRC’s Digital, Data and Information Technology (IT) function, ensuring HMRC has the IT systems and processes to run and deliver its services.
Sitting in the Financial Management division within CDIO’s Finance Directorate, Finance Business Partners play a key role in delivering exceptional financial services to CDIO leaders, influencing decision-making and positive outcomes through strong financial management.
This role is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and proactive finance professional, who enjoys operating and leading in a dynamic, challenging and evolving business environment.
Job description
Finance Business Partnering is key to the government finance vision of putting finance at the heart of decision making. Great Finance Business Partners drive the agenda, they do not just keep score. They aspire to become a truly trusted partner to the business, the ‘go-to’ for a wide variety of colleagues and stakeholders for expert advice and decision-making support.
Finance Business Partners (FBPs) in CDIO build strong relationships to influence stakeholders and enable effective financial management in collaboration with their Management Accountant colleagues. These relationships enable FBPs to facilitate constructive challenge of the business area they partner with and act as a bridge into other areas of finance.
The role of an FBP requires strong communication skills as well as strategic planning, reporting and analysis skills. Key activities performed by FBPs include:
- facilitating and challenging long-term planning, budgeting, and forecasting
- analysis and communication of financial data and reports
- supporting and challenging investment appraisals and business cases
- being a critical friend and independent advisor to the business
- advising on commercial aspects and enabling the business to find solutions to complex business issues
- support and advice to enable delivery of business objectives.
Working collaboratively together
Finance Business Partners and Management Accountants have different but complementary, mutually beneficial roles and work together in equal partnership, with each using the outputs of the other to add value for the rest of the finance function and for the wider business.
Finance Business Partnering
- delivering financial decision support
- providing advice on strategic outcomes
- integrating finance with decision making
- embedding governance assurance and controls
- acting as a critical friend
Management Accounting
- recognised and respected for subject matter expertise
- providing systems management and ledger control
- creating value adding intelligent analytics
- delivering in-year financial planning and budgeting
- telling the story through insightful management reporting
Person specification
- Highlights areas of potential conflict between stakeholders and manages them accordingly.
- A confident communicator, comfortable with challenging senior business leaders.
- Ability to influence at all levels of the business hierarchy, using logical persuasion and consensus building within groups.
- Able to remain focused on the overall business strategic vision during negotiation, knowing when to compromise and when to challenge for the benefit of the business.
- Highly visible across their area as the primary point of contact for financial advice - the 'face' of Finance.
- Understands the vision for the business and confidently leads others to realise the vision.
- Leadership, and the ability to motivate and develop a diverse finance team and promote excellence.
- Highly proficient in using and interpreting data and analytics to support analysis and decision making, identifying gaps in data, and reporting and working with Financial Systems colleagues to develop additional reporting as required.
Essential Criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
- Strong leadership and line management skills, with the ability to develop and motivate people both from own line management chain and across the wider team.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insight to support decision making.
- Proven experience (at least 3 years) within a similar role and experience of working in a large and complex organisation.
- Confident communicator, comfortable with robustly challenging senior business leaders and decision-makers.
- Ability to work in a culture of change, to think strategically and work comfortably with risk.
- Full or nearing completion of CCAB qualification (incl. CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA, ACA) or willing to study towards being fully qualified within 2 years of taking up the role.
Desirable Criteria
- CCAB fully qualified accountant (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA or equivalent).
- Previous experience of working within or supporting an IT organisation from a finance perspective.
- Previous experience of working within a public sector or not-for-profit organisation's finance team.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- You will be required to give a 5 minute presentation during the interview. Further information will be provided if you are invited to interview.
Benefits
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
- Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
- Family friendly policies.
- Personal support.
- Coaching and development.
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Selection process details
How to Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV including your job history.
- A 750-word personal statement.
Your CV should cover your job history and will be scored against the roles and responsibilities outlined in the advert.
Please provide a 750-word Personal Statement that demonstrates that you have the relevant skills and experience with reference to the listed essential criteria. It may be useful to include specific examples of where you have demonstrated the required skills and experience in your previous roles.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Sift
In the event of a large number of applications being received, an initial sift may be held on your CV to ensure the required experience and qualifications are evidenced.
At full sift your CV and Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.
Interview
During the panel interview, your experience will be assessed, and you will be asked behaviour-based questions to explore in detail what you are capable of.
You will be required to give a 5 minute presentation during the interview. Further information will be provided if you are invited to interview.
Interviews will take place via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, please contact us via: ubsrecruitmentexcellence@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – 371948 & vacancy closing date 14/10/2024’.
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles – if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.
Merit List
After interview, a single merit list will be created, and appointments will be made in strict merit order until the set demand is filled in each location. If successful, you will be informed which locations are available when we reach your position on the merit list.
Criminal Record Check
Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact the UBS Recruitment team via unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers:
This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need. Please consider the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the ‘location preferences’ section that you can travel to.
Terms and Conditions
Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.
HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.
Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.
Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.
Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Andrew Don
- Email : andrew.don@hmrc.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk
Further information
In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their website.
