JOB SUMMARY

The Chief Operating Officer Finance Business Partnering team have an exciting opportunity for a G7 Senior Finance Business Partner to provide strategic financial leadership across specific portfolios within UKHSA. This may involve supporting both Business As Usual (BAU) and Change portfolios.
G7 FBPs are business experts with strong interpersonal relationships. As a Grade 7 FBP you will use your strong technical skills and sound understanding of the relevant UKHSA business area to provide advice, challenge and scrutiny to business area colleagues.

The role requires you to be able to:

• Understand the business and are able translate and present complex financial information clearly.
• Provide valuable strategic advice, challenge and influence as required to ensure the best outcome for the organisation.
• Take on larger or more complex areas of the business, often with a focus on business cases and you will deputise, where required, for the Head of Finance Business Partnering.
• Be responsible for line management of up to 3 SEO’s, of which some may be training to become a qualified finance professional and will require your support.

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Providing specialist strategic financial advice - engaging with experts on behalf of the business and providing advice on key financial planning, processes and budget setting.
• Taking responsibility for all strategic financial information provided to the business, and the associated recommendations, using all available data and analytics tools.
• Challenging weakness in process compliance within the business and reporting on control effectiveness.
• Supporting the development and implementation of credible financial plans and forecasts that are consistent with the department performance and activity plans.
• Attending and influencing senior leader team boards.
• Involved at the start of the idea pipeline, engaging early in the development of policy and business cases.
• Driving evidence based policy-making by inputting financial insight throughout the process.
• Challenging and supporting the business to enhance decision-making and increase performance.
• Providing coaching and feedback proactively to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business.
• Supporting and coordinating delivery of financial services to the directorate.
• Horizon scanning to identify potential issues and helping
• Directorates develop solutions.
• Management of team members or oversight of other’s work and developing leadership skills within and across teams

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

You will be assessed on the below 8 essential criteria, which have been selected from the Job Description Document.

• Qualified with either; The Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) or equivalent or working towards qualification.
• Ability to influence at all levels of the business hierarchy, using logical persuasion and consensus building within groups.
• Budgeting, forecasting and costing
• Investment appraisal and evaluation
• Strategic analysis and insight
• Understand the vision for the business, highlighting areas of potential conflict between stakeholders and manages them accordingly.
• A visible, confident communicator, comfortable with challenging senior business leaders.
• Highly proficient in using and interpreting data and analytics to support analysis and decision making, identifying gaps in data and reporting and working with Financial Systems colleagues to develop additional reporting as required.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

The role requires you to be able to:

• Understand the business and are able translate and present complex financial information clearly.
• Provide valuable strategic advice, challenge and influence as required to ensure the best outcome for the organisation.
• Take on larger or more complex areas of the business, often with a focus on business cases and you will deputise, where required, for the Head of Finance Business Partnering.
• Be responsible for line management of up to 3 SEO’s, of which some may be training to become a qualified finance professional and will require your support

You will be assessed on the below 8 essential criteria, which have been selected from the Job Description Document.

• Qualified with either; The Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) or equivalent or working towards qualification.
• Ability to influence at all levels of the business hierarchy, using logical persuasion and consensus building within groups.
• Budgeting, forecasting and costing
• Investment appraisal and evaluation
• Strategic analysis and insight
• Understand the vision for the business, highlighting areas of potential conflict between stakeholders and manages them accordingly.
• A visible, confident communicator, comfortable with challenging senior business leaders.
• Highly proficient in using and interpreting data and analytics to support analysis and decision making, identifying gaps in data and reporting and working with Financial Systems colleagues to develop additional reporting as required