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 Groups 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 Governments 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.

Salary

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

London pay locations: Min 53,850 - Max 56,850.

Working Pattern

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, compressed hours are 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 workstreams 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/workstreams 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 understanding the metrics that drive the savings.
• Supporting governance such as risk & opportunities quantification, actively managing risks and opportunities against the latest plan and financial forecasts, change control etc.
• Asset management (valuation, recording and tracking) and actively manage the balance sheet in line with the workstream deliverables.
• Production of the finance case in business cases and spending proposals.
• Advise on regularity and propriety to protect the Accounting Officer.
• Compliance with accounting standards (e.g. CDEL /RDEL classification; treatment of VAT; treatment of assets under construction)
• Implementation of the corporate system of financial control and ensuring workstream financial controls are efficient and effective.

Essential Criteria

• Experience in the management of stakeholders and budgets across multiple funding streams. Developing and maintaining effective relationships and partnerships to provide financial support and constructive challenge to optimise VFM.
• Experience in providing specialist financial advice, commercial acumen and engaging with experts on behalf of the business and providing advice on key financial planning, processes, and budget setting.
• Experience of working in challenging weakness in process compliance and reporting on control effectiveness and supporting the workstreams to enhance decision-making and increase performance.
• Experience of working in a changing, fast-paced environment, able to manage your own time and priorities and to plan, collaborate, and deliver through others.

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