Head of business finance policy

Posting date:	29 May 2026
Salary:	£69,185 to £80,538 per year
Additional salary information:	National: £69,185? - £78,401? London: £72,970? - £80,538?
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	14 June 2026
Location:	Birmingham
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	462293/2

Summary

The work we do in DBT helps businesses in all parts of the UK grow domestically and internationally, creating higher paying jobs and strengthening communities. We bring together business leaders and trade experts to make the UK a thriving business hub. We connect businesses to government, attract investors, and unlock exports through trade deals. Our UK-based staff empowers colleagues in over 100 countries. With offices in London, Darlington, and across the UK, we're here to help businesses succeed.

This role leads the department’s development and implementation of access to finance policy. Access to finance – ensuring companies have the finance they need to start, stay, scale and succeed in the UK - is a key pillar of the Small Business Plan, the Industrial Strategy and at the heart of the Secretary of State’s vision for an ambition to build a trillion-pound company in the UK.

You will be responsible for developing and delivering the department’s policy in this area – from addressing barriers to equity finance for high growth scale ups, ensuring SMEs get the support they need from high street banks, to supporting entrepreneurship for underrepresented groups.

• Leading and developing the Business Finance Policy Team - a high performing team of 8 (including 5 Grade 7s) based in different locations, supporting their development and ensuring the right people with the right skills are in place to deliver the team’s objectives
• Lead DBT policy development on debt and equity finance for small and mid-sized businesses and scale ups
• Leading the policy relationship between the British Business Bank and Government, facilitating engagement with Ministers and seniors and reflecting Government's policy ambitions back to the Bank.
• Ensuring seamless collaboration with the BBB Sponsorship Team and UKGI Shareholder representative team
• Representing Government’s position to banks, non-bank lenders, CDFIs, fund and trade associations (FLA, UK Private Capital, UK Finance) and working with them and HM Treasury to ensure that policies across all aspects of business finance are evidence based, effective and impactful.
• Building trusted relationships with officials across Whitehall and delivering DBT Ministers’ objectives in areas of joint HMT and DBT responsibility.
• Developing productive working relationships across DBT and with the BBB, UKGI, HMT, DSIT, DESNZ and public financial institutions to develop a joined up coherent approach to smaller business access to finance.

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