Finance Business Partner
| Posting date: | 11 July 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 August 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5665 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicestershire, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £47,694 - £52,155 Per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 37 hours a week for 1 post, (although open to discussions around part-time working hours)
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 10th August 2025
Interview Date(s): Week Commencing 25th August 2025
Are you a confident communicator with excellent business partnering and financial analysis experience? Do you think practically, troubleshooting issues with sound logical solutions? Do you thrive on a challenge and are driven by supporting the delivery of sustainable change that will make a real difference to Leicestershire residents? If so, then we would like to hear from you.
We are looking to recruit a Finance Business Partner to support the Adults and Communities Department.
About the Role
As a Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in providing financial advice, developing and improving strategic financial insight, driving performance improvement, and supporting departments in delivering transformational change. This role offers the unique opportunity to influence key business decisions through collaborative working to ensure saving opportunities are optimised within a financially challenging environment.
The main duties and responsibility of the role include:
• Provide strategic advice and guidance to the Senior Leadership team and elected members to support decision making, whilst challenging and influencing decision-makers to ensure the best outcome is obtained for the Council
• Support the creation and delivery of the Council’s medium-term financial strategy and corporate transformation agenda ensuring opportunities to improve efficiency and service delivery outcomes are identified, analysed and implemented.
• Gain sufficient understanding of the business needs and its operations to evaluate strategic implications of financial issues ensuring managers have appropriate advice, knowledge and skills to discharge their financial responsibilities
• Deliver accurate, timely and relevant financial information used by the department including financial reporting and analysis, financial planning and submissions to government or partner organisations.
• Support the department in identifying, analysing, and implementing options for improving efficiency and/or service delivery outcomes. Ensure the financial management arrangements following the change are appropriate and provide the best use of LCC resources.
• Support the development of management information and the related systems to improve the links between financial information, operational activity and outcomes: focusing on price and volume analysis, unit costing and benchmarking
• Ensuring the Council’s financial management policies and procedures are communicated and implemented effectively within the department, including working with Corporate Finance to evolve policies to reflect changes in services and in response to issues.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
• Hold a CCAB or equivalent qualification with relevant up-to-date membership
Have a proven ability to:
- Build and maintain effective relationships that maximise cooperation across teams, services and organisational boundaries to achieve desired results.
Work cooperatively across team, service, organisational, and partnership boundaries to improve performance and resolve financial problems, particularly efficiency, with sound, workable solutions.
Interpret and use financial information to inform decisions and manage risks, while simultaneously recognising wider political and organisational priorities.
Demonstrate an appropriate level of influence and persuasion and be able to promote one's case.
Gather information from external and internal sources to enhance problem-solving and decision-making, including the ability to develop and articulate complex financial information to a range of stakeholders. This includes tailoring written and verbal communication to meet different and diverse needs while maintaining consistency with key messages.
Act as finance lead, providing financial support and advice from concept to delivery on projects, programmes and/or capital schemes spanning one or more years.
Although working in a Local Government environment would be beneficial, it is not essential for this position, and candidates who have worked in a similar role in a large, complex organisation will be considered favourably.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances while still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Gurpreet Kooner, Strategic Finance Manager, Adults & Communities, Public Health and Chief Executive’s Department
Telephone: 0116 305 5433
Email: Gurpreet.Kooner@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement explaining how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support
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