Finance Business Partner

Leeds Regional Centre
- Wellington Place, Manchester Regional Centre
- Three New Bailey, Newcastle Upon Tyne
- Benton Park View, Telford
- Plaza 1 and 2

Please note that due to workforce controls, Newcastle is only available to existing HMRC staff in this location.

Sitting within the Financial Management Division within the CDIO Strategic Services Division, this role is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, proactive finance professional, who enjoys working in a dynamic and challenging environment, to both deliver exceptional finance service and to lead and influence organisational change through strong financial management.

Finance Business Partners are our business experts. They couple financial acumen and expertise with strong interpersonal relationship and influencing skills. They understand the business and can translate and present complex financial information in clear and concise ways for a variety of audiences, often more senior to themselves.

They provide valuable financial advice, challenge and strategic insight to budget holders and senior decision-makers to drive value for money outcomes. They have the desire and ability to take on large and complex delivery areas to help them navigate high-profile and often financially challenging environments.

• Providing specialist financial advice – engaging with IT experts and providing advice on key financial planning, processes, and budget setting.
• Taking responsibility for providing financial information to the business with clear advice and recommendations, using all available data and analytics tools.
• Supporting the development and implementation of credible financial plans that are consistent with HMRCs strategic direction, performance and delivery plans.
• Attending and influencing senior leader boards and committees, providing robust challenge that considers the wider financial position of both the CDIO Group and HMRC.
• Involved at the start of the idea pipeline, engaging early in solution development and supporting the creation and approval of business cases through strong financial insight throughout the process.
• Driving evidence-based decisions through challenging and supporting the business to enhance decision-making,
• Providing coaching and feedback proactively to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business and finance colleagues and increasing performance through informed and objective advice.
• Horizon scanning to identify potential issues and helping CDIO directorates develop financially viable solutions.
• Management of team members and/or oversight of others work and developing leadership skills within and across teams.
• Driving cultural change to improve SSD leadership by role-modelling behaviours that inspire, motivate, empower, support, celebrate successes and tackle inappropriate behaviour/ poor performance.
• Influencing and driving cultural change to improve financial information, innovation, processes, systems, assurance and financial capability.

Working collaboratively and building strong relationships with the HMRC Transformation Portfolio, Programme and Finance community, to influence and drive finance effective change.

• CCAB (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent fully qualified chartered accountant.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insight to support analysis and decision making.
• Excellent IT/Excel, oral and written skills.
• Proven experience of working in a large and complex organisation.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to support wider business stakeholders.
• 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.

• Understanding of ERP systems.
• 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.

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a ‘Further Location Preferences (optional)’ field within the…