Senior Finance Business Partners / Finance Planning Leads
| Posting date: | 14 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,300 to £70,730 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National pay locations: Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, £60,300 - £66,330 London pay locations: Croydon, London, £64,300 - £70,730 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 July 2025 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 415798/1 |
Summary
Corporate and Delivery Directorate works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities. The directorate is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Security, Estates and Information and Digital, Data and Technology.
Finance Business Partners work closely with business areas to ensure operational and policy teams in the Home Office have the support they need to deliver the Department’s priorities, within increasingly challenging budget allocations.
These roles will involve close collaboration between finance colleagues across all disciplines and stakeholder areas to provide a high-quality finance service to the Department.
The Strategic Finance Unit is a central finance function that combines finance with strategy within a political context. It leads the department’s relationship with HM Treasury and has the overarching objectives of securing the future funding requirements for the Home Office.
The finance teams work alongside and have a close understanding of the business areas they support. Their main role is to provide support and challenge to stakeholders and to ensure that decisions are made with reference to financial information and implications for the Home Office overall, putting finance at the heart of decision making.
Finance Business Partner (FBP)
As a Finance Business Partner, you will work alongside and have a close understanding of the businesses. You will support stakeholders by building strong relationships, providing financial insight for the relevant area, challenging and innovative solutions to problems. Bringing insight and influence through effective communications, you will enable them to achieve the best outcomes for the public and supporting the strategic direction of the group.
You will collaborate with colleagues from across Home Office provide business leaders with insightful financial analysis and robust challenge to inform decision making and business planning. You will have personal responsibility for distinct areas of the Group’s business, acting as the lead contact for that business and providing support to the unit to deliver effectively against their budgets.
Support the Finance Directors (FD) in partnering with senior stakeholders to ensure that resources are deployed effectively and aligned with the agreed objectives of the Home Office through the provision of professional finance advice in accordance with current best practice.
Finance Planning Lead
As a Finance Planning Lead, you will develop effective working relationships with HM Treasury and business partners across the Department, developing a key understanding of the workstreams that deliver the Department’s strategic priorities.
You will own the Spending Review and Medium-Term Finance Plan business planning models, driving requirements, assumptions and relationships underpinning this. Work closely with the stakeholders to develop financial plans for the business area/ Home Office and to provide options which enable the senior leaders to develop alternate strategies for the delivery of their agreed objectives. Strong Excel skills and knowledge of METIS are required to update the models.
Main Responsibilities
As a Finance Business Partner or Finance Planning Lead you will:
- Participate in presenting robust arguments and analysis to support complex decision making, where there is a requirement to balance competing priorities from different areas within the relevant business and across the Home Office in an environment where there are limited resources.
- Ensure coherence between business area financial plans and overall departmental financial objectives, with any issues escalated at an early stage to enable collaborative discussion and decision.
- Create value through the sharing of relevant financial expertise and insights and to influence decisions to align tactical and strategic delivery through constructive support and challenge where appropriate.
- Work with colleagues to develop continuous improvement in the In Year financial reporting, forecast accuracy benchmarks and future planning.
- Produce briefing for senior officials and Ministers related to the responsibilities above and responding to other ad hoc requests, PQs, correspondence etc on the financial position of the Department.
- Hold line management responsibilities.
There are currently 6 roles available across a number of Directorates and within the strategic finance planning team. Roles will be offered as being deemed the best fit for the candidate.
Working Pattern
This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of job-share and compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours.
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