Finance Business Partner Newcastle upon Tyne, England
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Are you a fully qualified accountant with financial acumen and expertise?
Can you build strong relationships and influence key partners?
Are you able to convey complex financial detail to a variety of audiences?
If yes, we’d love to hear from you as we expand our team with highly motivated, proactive finance professionals working in a dynamic and challenging environment.
Finance Business Partners (FBPs) help us deliver exceptional finance services and influence organisational change through strong financial management, which allows HMRC to undertake the critical role of collecting the money that pays for the UK’s public services and paying financial support to families.
HMRC is going through a technical revolution in a time of rapid change that will transform the service it provides to 50 million individuals and five million businesses across the UK. By 2025 it will be one of the most digitally advanced tax administrations anywhere in the world.
With one of the largest and most complex IT estates in the country, the scale and complexity of some of HMRC’s programmes are unrivalled and will make a huge difference not just to the government but ultimately to the UK.
See what it’s like to work at HMRC: find out more about us or ask our colleagues a question. Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Job description
The Chief Digital and Information Officer group (CDIO) is HMRC’s Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) function and has a complex combination of employees, contractors and third-party suppliers.
With over 3,500 people, CDIO Group are a key part of ensuring HMRC has the systems and processes to run and deliver its services. As one of the most digitally focused major organisations in the UK, we are leading the biggest digital transformation in Europe. To support this, we are also transforming how we are structured to become increasingly customer and user centric.
This significant organisational transition involves changes to our operating model to drive an increased focus on our customers and develop new capabilities. Our task is to continue to deliver high-quality services and technology as they drive this transformation, while providing an outstanding service to our internal and external customers and ensuring a great experience for everyone who interacts with HMRC.
Sitting within the Finance Business Partnering team within CDIO's Finance Directorate, this role is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, proactive finance professional to both deliver exceptional finance service and influence organisational change through strong financial management.
Person specification
CDIO FBPs need the skills and experience to provide valuable financial advice, challenge, and offer strategic insight to budget holders and senior decision-makers to drive value for money outcomes. Being responsible for supporting large and complex delivery areas, FBPs can proactively prioritise and have the resilience to navigate high-profile and often financially challenging environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Horizon scanning to identify potential issues and helping CDIO directorates develop financially viable solutions and evidence-based decisions through data-driven challenge.
- Attending and influencing senior leader boards and committees, providing robust challenge that considers the wider financial position of both the CDIO Group and HMRC.
- Involved at the start of the idea pipeline, engaging early in solution development and supporting the creation and approval of business cases that are consistent with HMRCs strategic direction, performance and delivery commitments through strong financial insight.
- Proactively providing coaching and feedback to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business and finance colleagues.
- Management of team members and/or oversight of others work and developing leadership skills within and across teams.
- Influencing and driving cultural change to improve financial information, innovation, processes, systems, assurance and financial capability.
Essential Criteria
- CCAB (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent fully qualified accountant.
- Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insight to support analysis and decision making.
- Comfortable with robustly challenging senior business leaders and decision-makers.
- Ability to work in a culture of change, to think strategically and work comfortably with risk.
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We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
Benefits
- An environment with flexible working options (an average 2 days per week working from one of the locations listed)
- A culture with inclusion and diversity at its core
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Learning and development tailored to your role
Find more about HMRC benefits in 'Your little extras and big benefits handbook' for further information or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service.
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Selection process details
To apply for this role you will need to supply a CV, detailing your Job History as well as any Qualifications, Skills and Experience you have gained.
We also require a 750 word Personal Statement showcasing your experience and how you meet the Essential Criteria.
Sifting of candidates will be complete within 1 week of closing date of applications being received for this vacancy.
An initial sift based on Personal Statement may be held if a large number of applications are received. If your application progresses to a full sift, all sift criteria will then be considered.
We reserve the right to raise the score required at any stage of the process in order to manage numbers.
Interviews will be scheduled to take place within 3 weeks of sift results being released.
Interviews likely to be face-to-face at one the locations listed above (dependent on availability).
Interview dates to be confirmed.
Interviews will focus on the candidates application, their Experience, Behaviours and the Essential Criteria required.
A reserve list may be held for a period of 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.
Eligibility
To check that you are eligible to apply, review this eligibility information
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, so please review the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the ‘location preferences’ section that you are able to travel to.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process because of a disability, condition, or impairment. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.
If you need a reasonable adjustment or a change to be made so that you can make your application, review this information on reasonable adjustments, and contact [email protected] as soon as possible.
Equality and Diversity
We’re committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues here at HMRC. We want everyone to feel valued, supported and comfortable being their true self at work.
We’re proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer, supporting social mobility by giving opportunities to people from all walks of life. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and offer a range of flexible working patterns and support. Our aim is to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.
For more information on how we make this happen, review this information on our culture and values.
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.
We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible after considering operational and customer service needs. We can’t guarantee that we can meet all requests to work flexibly, as agreement will be subject to business ability to accommodate, and any request to work a more flexible arrangement should be made prior to your acceptance of the provisional offer.
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.
The Civil Service runs 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.
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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.
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For more information on the level of security checks we will carry out, review this information on security checks
Further Information
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.
Duplicate applications for the same vacancy will also be withdrawn.
Transferring into HMRC from Civil Service If you are currently working for an ‘Other Government Department’ (OGD) and would like to consider the impact on your pay when joining HMRC, please see the attached document "Combined T&C and OGD Pay English”, found at the bottom of this advert. Further information on staff transfers can be found on gov.uk
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If you think you’ve made a mistake on a submitted application (e.g. you’ve ticked the incorrect eligibility box), please contact [email protected] at least two working days before the vacancy closes. After this, we won’t be able to reopen your application.
Please use the subject line to insert appropriate wording e.g. Please re-open my application - 290484 & vacancy closing date 13/06/2023.
For reasonable adjustments queries or requests, please see details within reasonable adjustments section above.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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