Finance Business Partner

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Finance Business Partner
Contract type: Permanent
Rank/grade: F
Salary: Starting salary £53,760 + £7,160 London Weighting + £200 supplement
Directorate/department: Corporate Services / Finance
Vetting level required: MV/SC
Location: City of London Police estate within the square mile
The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.
Who are we?
As City of London Police, we protect the people, businesses and infrastructure of the City of London, one of the most important and dynamic environments in the UK and globally. London City is the smallest borough in London, so does that make our job any less challenging? Absolutely not – because there’s so much going on.
City of London Police play a vital role in keeping the City of London diverse community safe. As a Police Staff Member you will be helping to making the city safer and deliver a valued service for those that live, work and visit the City.
Hybrid working - This Police Staff role adheres to Corporation of London’s hybrid working policy, which requires a 60% office attendance rate. The specifics of this will be discussed locally with your hiring manager if you’re successful for the role.
The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly.
The City of London Police is committed to equality of opportunities and continuously strive for inclusivity within our Force.
About The Team
It is an exciting time to join the Finance team. The team is being developed to provide an exceptional Finance service, supporting and enabling front line policing. This includes supporting transformational change, driving commercial opportunities and building strong relationships across the Force and with our partners.
About The Role
We are looking for an excellent Finance Business Partner who will work directly with Directorate leads, budget holders, and other stakeholders to provide financial support, strategic insight and challenge to enable the maximisation of resources and the successful delivery of value for money services. The post holder will provide essential financial support to a range of Police services and the Force’s extensive capital programme.

The responsibilities of the role include financial modelling, budget setting and monitoring and year-end closing of accounts.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be:

• The lead financial advisor to allocated service area providing excellent finance business partner support and proactively engage with services to understand strategic direction, priorities and deliverables.
• A trusted partner in financial performance and commercial activities providing day-to-day financial advice to budget holders and senior management and prepare reports including the monthly financial position;
• Working with allocated services to understand key cost drivers, improving processes to provide useful analysis, and commercial and financial insights to support decision making.
• Overseeing the financial monitoring processes for allocated services to ensure accurate forecasting, early identification of pressures, savings and risks, the timely submission of monthly forecast information and the development of action plans.
• Overseeing the year end process, ensure compliance with appropriate accounting standards and treatments and ensure a directorate timetable is in place that meets corporate requirements and timescales.