Finance Business Partner (Estates)

Are you looking for the next step in your Finance Career? 

Do you have experience challenging and improving business plans? 

Have you previously working within a Property or Estates focused programme? 

If you’ve answered yes to these then our Estates and Locations Finance Business Partner role could be just for you!  

Corporate Finance fulfils a vital role at the heart of HMRC. We are responsible for ensuring that HMRC plans and manages its performance, makes good decisions, and is held to account on accurate financial and performance data. Our activity helps HMRC account excellently for everything it does.  
 
The Finance Business Partner branch is part of the Chief Finance Officer Corporate Support team, a team of over 80 people working across the UK to support HMRC’s CFO Group, with finance, planning, performance, Business Partnering, risk, and analytical services. HMRC’s CFO group employs over 2,000 staff working to provide the financial processes, estate services, assurance and control to enable HMRC to perform at its best. You’ll be part of a small team of Business Partners, and report to a Grade 7 Finance Business Partner. The core of the role is providing HMRC customers with a full finance service that meets both current and future needs.  

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Your core responsibility will be as a Business Partner and a key member of our Estates Directorate finance team. You will be the lead Business Partner for several major customers within Estates Workplace and Policies, covering and annual budget of over £100m.  

Being responsible for ensuring the directors and their teams understand their financial and workforce resources, providing advice, and challenge to ensure they are able to meet their wider objectives while ensuring value for money and good financial management across the directorate. We are also looking for you to be a role model and mentor anyone into a career within Finance 

As our Finance Business Partner, here are some things we are looking for you to do:

• Being an active member of business areas’ Senior Leadership Teams.  
• Provide constructive challenge to business plans and investment proposals. 
• Providing technical financial advice and support to the SLTs in the management of their delegated annual budgets.
• Monitor performance against plan and actively manage risks and opportunities against the latest financial forecasts. 
• Accurate financial reporting and provision of appropriate management information. 
• Understanding of and responsibility for a strong control environment and risk management within business areas.
• Monitoring efficiencies and change programmes, including investigating and challenging where efficiencies targets are not met.
• Building strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders to facilitate the delivery of Finance Director and SLT objectives.
• Successful delivery of any ad hoc exercises assigned by the Finance Director. 

Person specification

You will be a key member of the Finance Business Partner team and your customer area’s Senior Leadership Team contributing to business decision-making, advising on a broad range of financial issues (such as budgeting and savings options) and related areas (workforce planning and risk). You will be responsible for the delivery of excellent customer service and driving performance up across your business area, as HMRC continues to undergo a period of transformational change. 
 
Essential Criteria:

• Minimum of 2 years Finance Function experience with a good understanding of financial practices and processes. 
• Full or part qualified in accountancy or willing to study for full qualification and membership of CIMA or CCAB. Must commence studying within 6months.   
• Demonstrable experience building personal credibility with senior partners. 
• A strong customer service ethos.
• Results orientated and committed to delivery of VfM. 
• Adaptable working style able to balance competing, sometimes urgent or ad hoc, priorities with each other. 
• Strong leadership and management skills with a drive to develop staff and make Corporate Support a great place to work .

Desirable Criteria:

• Part qualified CIMA or CCAB. 
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders, including challenging and acting as a critical friend. 
• Experience maintaining relationships during negotiations. 
• Ability to work with, understand, and summarise large data sets. 
• Confident in the use of Excel or comparable applications. 
• Experience of Office 365, including Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint, or comparable applications.

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%