Overview
Finance Business Partner – Telford – Plaza 1 and 2
About the job
Job summary
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Do you have a firm foundation of finance experience and are now looking for the next step in your finance career path?
If so, HMRC’s Digital, Data and Technology function (otherwise known as Chief Digital and Information Officer group or ‘CDIO’) is seeking an exceptional Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic Financial Management Division. With over 3,500 people, CDIO Group are a key part of ensuring HMRC has the systems and technology to run and deliver its services to millions of citizens.
This role is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled, motivated, and ambitious individual to help drive value from our financial data. You will use your strong influencing, communicating and management accounting knowledge to generate insightful information and advice that will inform strategic decision-making by senior leaders
If you thrive in fast-paced environments and are ready to make a significant impact by bringing your skills and ideas to a challenging yet supportive environment, then this this could be the ideal next role for you.
Job description
Sitting within the Financial Management Division within the CDIO Finance Directorate, this role is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, proactive finance professional, who enjoys working in a dynamic and challenging environment, to both deliver exceptional finance service and to lead and influence organisational change through strong financial management.
Finance Business Partners working in CDIO provide valuable financial advice, challenge, and offer strategic insight to budget holders and senior decision-makers to drive value for money outcomes. With responsibility for supporting large and complex delivery areas, Finance Business Partners proactively prioritise and have the resilience to navigate high-profile and often financially challenging environments.
This role is focussed on managing Spending Review related change funding and investments across several cross-cutting business streams.
Person specification
- Providing specialist financial advice – engaging with IT experts and providing advice on key financial planning, processes, and budget setting.
- Taking responsibility for providing financial information to the business with clear advice and recommendations, using all available data and analytics tools.
- Supporting the development and implementation of credible financial plans that are consistent with HMRCs strategic direction, performance, and delivery plans.
- Attending and influencing senior leader boards and committees, providing robust challenge that considers the wider financial position of both the CDIO Change Portfolio Group and HMRC Change Delivery.
- Involved at the start of the idea pipeline for the assigned business area, engaging early in solution development, and supporting the creation and approval of business cases through strong financial insight throughout the process.
- Driving evidence-based decisions through challenging and supporting the business to enhance decision-making.
- Providing coaching and feedback proactively to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business and finance colleagues and increasing performance through informed and objective advice.
- Horizon scanning to identify potential issues and helping CDIO directorates develop financially viable solutions.
- Management of team members and/or oversight of others work and developing leadership skills within and across teams.
- Driving cultural change to improve CDIO Finance leadership by role-modelling behaviours that inspire, motivate, empower, support, celebrate successes and tackle inappropriate behaviour/ poor performance.
- Influencing and driving cultural change to improve financial information, innovation, processes, systems, assurance, and financial capability.
- Working collaboratively and building strong relationships with the Change Delivery Group, Transformation Portfolio, Programme and Finance community, to influence and drive effective change.
Essential Criteria:
- CCAB (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent fully qualified accountant.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
- Confident communicator, comfortable with robustly challenging senior business leaders and decision-makers.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insight to support analysis and decision making.
- Excellent IT/Excel and presentation skills.
- Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to support wider business stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a culture of change, to think strategically and work comfortably with risk.
Desirable Criteria:
- Recent experience of working in a Project and Programme environment as a business partner.
- Recent experience of producing business case financial models and financial case narrative to support investment decisions.
- Experience of working on a Government Major Project in a finance role.
Transitional Sites
For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.
These sites are:
- Telford Plaza, Telford – moving to Parkside Court, Telford
You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage
Qualifications
CCAB (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent fully qualified accountant.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- You will also be asked 1 technical question design to assess your technical understanding and competency towards the job requirements.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
- Pension – We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
- Family friendly policies.
- Personal support.
- Coaching and development.
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Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
How to Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- Provide 250-word example of where you have demonstrated each of the behaviours highlighted during your career
Behaviours:
- Managing a Quality Service (Lead)
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
You will be advised to apply the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) technique when providing examples.
Please complete a separate statement (Max 250 words) for the Desirable Criteria where applicable. This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy-holder where candidates have the same scores at sift or interview.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Sift
At sift all behaviour statements will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.
Interview
The interview will be 30 minutes in length and will be held by a 3-person panel. During the panel interview, you will be assessed against the behaviours outlined below. You will be asked one question per each behaviour, when answering you will be required to provide a specific instance from your careers which demonstrates the behaviour in question.
- Managing a Quality Service (Lead)
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions
- Seeing the Big Picture
You will also be asked 1 technical question design to assess your technical understanding and competency towards the job requirements.
You will be advised to apply the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) technique when delivering examples. You would be encouraged to prepare demonstratable examples of your experience ahead of the interview to ensure meaningfulness and completeness.
Interviews will take place via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days(Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]’.
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles – if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.
Merit List
After interview, a single merit list will be created, and you will only be considered for posts in locations you have expressed a preference for. Appointments will be made in strict merit order in line with the set number of roles in each location.
Criminal Record Check
Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact the UBS Recruitment team via unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers:
This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need. Please consider the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the ‘location preferences’ section that you can travel to.
Terms and Conditions
Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.
HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.
Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.
Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.
Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.
Please note that, if you are applying for roles on a part-time basis, the salary agreed will be pro-rata, reflective of the working hours agreed within your contract.
If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
For more Information for people applying for, or thinking of applying for, roles at HM Revenue and Customs, please see link: Working for HMRC: information for applicants – GOV.UK.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
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) (opens in a new window)
- 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 (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
