Finance Business Partner

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

The Public Safety Group’s role is to keep the public safe by cutting crime, disrupting the highest harm criminals, protecting the vulnerable and ensuring that our police service is as efficient and effective as it can be in delivering front line public services. We work with our partners in other government departments, local government and the voluntary sector to develop and implement policy, provide funding, and deliver legislation.

The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has spearheaded work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm; in doing so, we make a vital contribution to HM Government’s plan for a stronger, fairer, outward-looking and united Britain.

The Home Office covers three systems:
Homeland Security, Public Safety and Borders, and Immigration and Citizenship. These systems work collaboratively to deliver our cross-cutting priorities, whilst providing increasingly efficient and secure services for the public.

These are challenging areas that can rapidly change in the global environment we work in – this makes us one of the most exciting and stimulating government departments in which to work.

The Home Office is leading a pan departmental, cross government programme to deliver the new Emergency Services Network (ESN) critical communications system. This will replace the current Airwave service used by the emergency services in Great Britain. The strategic aim of the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) is to deliver a much better voice and data service to emergency services replacing the reliable but limited and ageing Airwave system.

National pay locations:
Bristol, Sheffield
- Min £49,850 - Max £52,850

Working Pattern

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, compressed hoursare available.

Travel

Occasional travel will be required for this role.

Key Interactions

• With a range of finance teams across Home Office including colleagues in PSG and DDaT Finance business Partnering, Management Accounting Unit and wider Corporate, In-Year and Treasury Reporting (CITR).
• Collaboration with other parts of PSG, DDaT and other Home Office Directorates and business units.
• Government finance management and control experience
• Strong interpersonal, communication (both written and oral) and stakeholder management skills
• Strong organisational ability and well-developed resource and staff management skills
• Ability to adopt and promote an organisational culture that is positive about change and committed to delivery of the strategic vision.
• Project / programme finance business partnering experience.

Role responsibilities:

• Providing financial oversight and support to the portfolio.
• Providing insight and analysis, linking financial data to workstream deliverables. Monitoring the work streams performance against schedule and financial plan at project and workstream level.
• Contributing to key decisions and reports through financial insight.
• Acting as a financial advisor – technical and operational accounting.
• Responsibility for accurate financial reporting and provision of appropriate management information for the projects/work streams including the provision of monthly finance project/workstream reports that incorporate costs and benefits.
• Ad-hoc support to relationship with commercial partners aligning the financial analysis to commercial procurements supporting any requirements for options analysis.
• Benefits management (identification, assessment, and tracking). Monitoring of cashable benefits and…