Programme Finance Business Partner (SEO)

Finance Directorate

Permanent

The Finance Directorate is one of the most dynamic and forward-looking places to work. They provide professional finance advice and challenges to ensure the Home Office delivers value for money.
The team are recruiting a variety of exciting new positions. To apply for these exciting opportunities, apply using the link below!

Salary & Grading

SEO: £41,600 - £48,792

* New entrants to the Civil Service will be appointed to the pay scale at entry level for the grade but an additional £4,000 allowance is applicable to SEO staff with a full CIMA or CCAB qualification. Usual T&Cs apply for existing civil servants.

Location:

Home Office can offer various locations:

• Croydon Estate
• London - 2 Marsham Street (2MS)
• Sheffield - Millsands, Sheffield, S3 8NU (Vulcan House)
• Manchester - Soapworks, Colgate Lane, Salford, M5 3LZ (Soapworks)
• Liverpool - Shannon Court, 10 Princes Parade, Princes Dock, Liverpool, L3 1QY (The Capital)
• Stoke - Smithfield, ST1 4FD (Smithfield Two)

Working Pattern - Full Time, Part Time, Flexible Working, Hybrid Working

Live Vacancies:

Programme Finance Business Partner

This role supports financial decision making within Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) and Home Office critical Programmes. The post holder will be responsible for:

• Providing accurate financial reporting
• Strategic financial advice
• Management information for various projects and workstreams to ensure that programme teams deliver against plans, objectives and outcomes.

Management Accounting Officer

This is a key post within Accounting Operations and requires the post holder to undertake:

• Management accounts for within the IMA and 10-point plan portfolio.
• Understand key complexities within business areas
• Liaising with Finance Business Partner teams and operational areas.

Finance Business Partner (FBP)

The FBP team play a key role in the financial business planning and will be responsible for:

• In-year financial monitoring and forecasting of budgets
• Provide strategic support and challenge to business areas to ensure decisions are made with reference to financial information and consequences.

Other roles may also be available. You will be asked of your preference upon interview. Further information regarding the roles will be available at this stage.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain effective key stakeholder relationships.
• Provide regular finance project/workstream reports incorporating costs and benefits.
• Offer advice, including financial modelling, whole lifecycle costing and scenario analysis.
• Input into financial case production in business cases.
• Identify, assess and track benefits.
• Oversee and report risks and opportunities against the latest plan and financial forecasts.
• Ensure compliance with accounting standards (e.g., Capital Departmental Expenditure Limits (CDEL)/Resource Departmental Expenditure Limits (RDEL) classification).
• Oversee asset management processes.
• Implement the corporate system of financial control and ensure workstream financial controls are efficient.
• Provide constructive challenge, ensuring transparency and proactively addressing emerging trends.
• Support Lead FBP in strategic finance leadership of functional areas within the business area.
• Assist with collating iterations of costings for HM Treasury on the IMA in order to secure funding.
• Supporting the creation of Accounting Officer notes for the Permanent Secretary in relation to various elements of the IMA.
• Identifying key objectives in communicating financial data.
• Partner leadership teams to support decision making and governance
• Work with business partners, provide planning models and trend data

Note: The post holder may be required to carry out other duties within the scope of the grade.

Person Specification

Essential criteria

• Excellent leadership, interpersonal skills and authority
• Experience of working in a multi-stakeholder environment
• A proven track record of providing high quality financial analysis and advice across a wide range of complex business and financial issues, with strong quantitative and analytical skills.
• Ability to influence others, using verbal and written communication.
• Experience of communicating and presenting financial information to a non-financial audience.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel.
• Strong knowledge of financial principles, accounting standards and regulations.
• Understanding of risk management, change control processes and compliance.
• CCAB or CIMA qualified or part qualified or currently studying for one of these qualifications.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

We only ask for evidence of Managing a Quality Service in the short statement.

Benefits

The Home Office understands that excellent results can only be achieved by investing in and retaining the people who work for them. They offer:

• Generous holiday allowance - 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service in addition to 8 public holidays and one privilege day

• Civil Service Pension schemes - A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

• All employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office, subject to local estates capacity, by Spring 2024

Disability Confident Scheme

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Therefore if a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

* Please note, clicking the application link, you will be directed to Civil Service Jobs to read through full details regarding the various vacancies. It is strongly advised you read through the advert thoroughly. *