Finance Business Partner

Positions   1 Band / Grade   B1 Salary   £41,340 - £47,975 per annum Contract Type   Permanent Working Pattern   Full Time Location   Hybrid (on-site and remote) Leave entitlement   Starting at 30 days per annum, pro-rata Closing Date  

9th February 2025 at 23:55

Interview Date(s)   Week Beginning 17th February Job Description   Finance Business Partner - Job Description.docx – 929KB Opens in a new window
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House of Commons 

The House of Commons a unique and exciting place to work right at the heart of the UK's thriving democratic system.  

Behind the scenes, the House of Commons Service is made up of more than 3,000 employees who support and facilitate the smooth day to day running of the House. They provide professional services to Members of Parliament, their staff, and the wider parliamentary community. 

Staff Benefits  

In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including:   

• 30 days’ annual leave (increasing to 35 days after first full leave year).  
• Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.  
• Access to training and development.  
• Flexible working.  
• Interest free season ticket loan and bicycle loan.

Introduction  

The Finance, Portfolio and Performance (FPP) team is critical to supporting a thriving Parliamentary democracy. We play a leading role in delivering the House of Commons’ Strategy and corporate priorities through business and financial planning, analysing performance, and supporting the delivery of projects and programmes across Parliament.

The Finance Business Partnering Team will lead on building strong relationships within the organisation to influence and enable effective financial management, ensuring that finance and public value are at the heart of decision making.

The Role    

The role will require strong communication as well as strategic planning, reporting and analysis skills. Activities will include; facilitating and challenging long-term planning, budgeting, forecasting; analysis and communication of financial data and reports; supporting and challenging investment appraisals and business cases; supporting commercial activity and enabling the business to find solutions to address complex business queries.

Some of the responsibilities for this role include: 

• Contributing to the wider finance function, working collaboratively with finance business partners and seeking ways to continuously improve the function.
• Providing relevant coaching and training to the business.
• Translating, owning and adding insight to financial data to provide clear information and evidence to support business activities and requirements.
• Reviewing and providing input to business cases/strategic documentation.
• Identifying and applying relevant costs, benefits and investment appraisal techniques.
• Providing analysis to support responses to PQs and FOIs.

Skills and Experience  

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate:

• Qualifications: It is essential you are CCAB or CIMA qualified, or equivalent, or part qualified (including AAT level 4) / studying toward a relevant finance qualification.
• Criteria 2: Ability to foster a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration between the business, finance and other corporate services.
• Criteria 3: Able to tailor their communication style to a range of audiences, including internal and external stakeholders with the ability to influence at the appropriate levels of the business hierarchy.
• Criteria 4: Able to help others to understand the interdependencies between business and finance, using data, reports, graphic and other tools to support business managers to make informed and effective decisions.
• Criteria 5: Ability to lead individuals and teams, building and maintaining strong, collaborative partnerships in order to achieve organisational goals, whilst upholding the values of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Next Steps and Additional Information 

CV & Supporting Statement – If you would like to apply for this role, please submit your CV and covering letter with a 500-word limit.   

Please ensure that you anonymise your application by removing any identifiable factors from your CV or Supporting Statement.

More information on the role and the full criteria can be found in the Job Description.  

Please note that most job offers will be made at the minimum of the salary range, other than in exceptional circumstances. 

We may close the vacancy prior to the closing date stated due to a high volume of applications. 

 

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